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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Diplomacy Name Emir of Mohammerah, c 1800-1936

1. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs: Matters Relating to the Anglo-Persian War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 16 dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure is also dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure comprises a despatch, dated 22 December 1856, from C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/59
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 4 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; proposals of Turkish Govt; status of Kowait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1911-1912. The correspondence concerns three broad topics: Anglo-Turkish negotiations proposals of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1912
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/132
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: situation. British assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the situation regarding British assurances to the Sheikh of Mohammerah. The volume includes a description of the Sheikh's perception that, despite his good behaviour towards the British he has not been afforded the support provided to other Arab sheikhs in the Gulf a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/169
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 2 Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; buoyage of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters, reports and memoranda concerning the lighting and buoyage of the Shatt al-Arab. Correspondence discusses the poor state of the buoys and need for repainting; a re-survey of the Shatt al-Arab in order the prevent the Germans from gaining influence. Also discussed is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/933

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/933
Title:
File 7190/1920 Pt 1 ‘Persia:- Situation in Arabistan. Bakhtiari crisis. Sheikh of Mohommerah and Persian Govt.’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, summaries, reports, notes and other papers concerning British support of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr; also written as Mohommerah, for example in the title field] in the context of the Persian [Iranian] Government's relationship with the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1920-17 Sep 1923
Extent:
1 volume (345 folios)