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032-000173250 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Safavid Dynasty, Family, 1501-1736

1. IOR/G/29/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/15
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas, also written as Gomroon] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Marathi
Date Range:
18 Feb 1703-25 Oct 1727
Extent:
2 volumes (270 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/18
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pts 1-2
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 April 1725 and 25 August 1731. The letters describe the power struggle between Ashraf Sultan Ghilza'i and Shah Tahmasb II for supremacy in Persia, political and economic relations with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1725-25 Aug 1731
Extent:
2 volumes (239 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/19
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1732-1752), Vols I-II
Scope & Content:
These two volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 March 1732 and 13 February 1753. The letters contain material relating to the overthrow of the Safavid Dynasty, and the rise of the Afshar Dynasty in Persia [Iran]; Nadir Shah Afshar's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1732-13 Feb 1753
Extent:
2 volumes (250 folios)