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1. IOR/L/MIL/7/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/706
Title:
Collection 5/56: ‘Terms of employment of officers lent for service under other Governments. Selection of British officers to organise Ottoman Gendarmerie in Asiatic Turkey. Proposals abandoned.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between officials of the Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, and other diplomatic and administrative staff, and from the Turkish [Ottoman] Ambassador to Great Britain. It concerns proposals, subsequently suspended, for the appointment of British officers to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Apr 1913-4 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/12604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/12604
Title:
Collection 269/345 ‘Miscellaneous Questions: Refusal to allow an officer to publish an article on “Mesopotamia” on grounds that he should not be allowed to propagate political views with which Govt. does not agree’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the refusal of the War Office to permit a British officer, Major Edward Johnson Ross, to publish an article in the Morning Post. The article discusses British policy in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Ross offers his views on the state of Mesopotamia, argues again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1920-21 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/7/19337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/19337
Title:
Collection 435/12 Part 1 ‘British Military Mission in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and copies of correspondence relating to the recruitment of Indian Army officers to the British Military Mission in Iraq. Correspondents include the Foreign Office, War Office, Indian Office, Air Ministry, the British Embassy in Baghdad, Government of India and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1932-5 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (201 files)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 361-365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 361-365
Title:
Zanzibar Affairs: The Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a political despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 99 of 1872, dated 10 May 1872. The enclosures date from 25 August 1871 to 6 April 1872 and concern the capture and destruction by HMS Petere...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1872
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2-3 Mohammerah
Scope & Content:
This file contains parts two and three of the subject Mohammerah 1552: Part two contains papers related to the operations of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company on the Karun River: folios 127-274. Part three contains papers related to proposed irrigation schemes in the Karun River ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1915
Extent:

3 volumes (293 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/348

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/348
Title:
File 617/1913 Publications: the Near East; purchase of copies for India
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams and correspondence regarding a Government of India proposal to purchase and distribute copies of the newspaper The Near East among Indian Muslims. The volume also contains a distribution list and a distribution plan, receipts and correspondence regarding the subscri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1912-14 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/410
Title:
File 3654/1913 ‘Pts 1.2.&3. PERSIA:- ADMIRALTY OIL COMMISSION’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1, 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persia – Admiralty Oil Commission’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/1) concerns the Admiralty Oil Commission, which is also referred to as Admiral Slade’s Committee. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/2) concerns the Admiralty’s contract with the Anglo-Persian O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1918
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/588
Title:
File 748/1916 Pt 1-2 'The Aga Khan'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of correspondence relating to Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan. Issues discussed include his award of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to maintain the peace between Turkey and the Western Powers since the Mudros Armistice (1918). Also includes telegrams from Ismailia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1912-5 Jan 1929
Extent:
1 volume (375 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/812

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/812
Title:
File 1091/1919 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Roads: - The Khanikin-Hamadan-Enzeli Road'
Scope & Content:
This volume is comprised of two parts (IOR/L/PS/10/812/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/812/2) on the construction and operation of the Khanikin [Khanaqin]-Hamadan-Enzeli [Anzali] Road, British Government expenditures toward its maintenance, and the desire of Richards, Thynne & Company Limited [Richards, T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1919-15 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 volume (168 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/869/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/3
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: Finance. BUDGETS (1918-19, 1919-20)’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding financial budgets for the British administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers notably cover: Estimates of receipts and expenditure The budget for the civil administration in Mesopotamia State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1918-8 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 item (158 folios)