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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Consul, Arabistan, Early 20th century

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10/1
Title:
Military Report on S.-W. Persia, Vol. I. Bakhtiari Garmsir
Scope & Content:
It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Bakhtiari Garmsir [Bakhtīārī], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (80 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/177
Title:
File 1702/1910 Pt 1-2 'Railways: Persia. Persian Railway Syndicate'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and maps, relating to the two topics contained in the volume on railway development in Persia. The first topic is the Khoremmabad-Dizful-Mohammerah railway and the survey required to assess its practicability and probable cos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/70
Title:
A Précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of 'Arabistan By Lieutenant A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a précis issued by the Government of India which provides comprehensive details regarding the history of relations between the British Government and the tribes and rulers of 'Arabistan. The volume is divided into eleven sections as follows: I. British Interests in 'Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1912
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/384-388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/384-388
Title:
File 26: Arabistan and Luristan
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain correspondence, reports, maps, and memoranda relating to British interests in the Arabistan [Khūzestān] and Luristan [Lorestān] provinces of south west Persia following their political and commercial penetration of the region in the late nineteenth-century. The documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1905-1946
Extent:

5 volumes (1073 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/615
Title:
File 73/7 V (D 38) Status of Kuwait, Anglo-Turkish Convention
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, maps, and newspaper cuttings relating to Anglo-Turkish negotiations over the Baghdad Railway, status of Kuwait, and other Persian Gulf matters. The correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, British Consul for Arabistan, Percy Cox, Political Resident at Bus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jan 1914-16 Jul 1919
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981
Title:
‘Bahrainese abroad’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
22 Sep 1873-1 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/504
Title:
‘Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1904-1905’
Scope & Content:
Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Maskat [Muscat] Political Agency for 1904-1905, published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India (Calcutta). The report is divided into a number of parts: 1. General Summary, prepared by Major Percy Zachariah Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)