A portrait of Safar Khan [Ṣafar Khān] and his son. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that took place between 1903 and 1905. The print is ...
A sketch of the tomb of the ‘Nikūdar’ or Chief of Guachig [Washuk]. Camels and men have been drawn either side of the tombs. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The sketch was made during the Seistan [Sistan] Boun...
A photograph of a woman making carpets. A group of men, women and children are pictured sitting around her. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commis...
A group portrait of agriculturists with their cattle. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that took place between 1903-05. The print is pub...
A photograph of two people threshing. A child stands in between them. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that took place between 1903 and ...
A photograph of a man riding a donkey. ‘Photo. Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that took place between 1903 and 1905. The print is published in...
A Précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan
Scope & Content:
The volume is Lieutenant A T Wilson, IA, Acting Consul for Arabistan, A Précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912). The volume is a compilation of historical, economic and political infor...
The Kurdish tribes of the Ottoman Empire. By Lt-Col Sir Mark Sykes [London: War Office, 1915] Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol XXXVIII, Jul-Dec 1908
This file is A History of Persia by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes (London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1915). The file consists of two volumes, containing a historical narrative of Persia [Iran], dating from around 6000 BCE to the signing of the Persian Constitution of 1906 CE. It c...
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It shows the route taken by Xerxes I, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, during his invasion of Greece in 480 BC. It includes western and central Turkey, the islands of the Aegean Sea, and the eastern coast of Greece. Portrays r...
