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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary of State for India, United Kingdom, 1858-1935

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1107
Title:
File 851/1924 ‘Persia: Consular Escorts.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of memoranda, telegrams, and minute papers relating to a request by the Persian [Iranian] Government for the removal of Indian Army military escorts posted to British Consulates in Persia, mainly in Tehran, Isfahan [Esfahan, also spelled Ispahan in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1916-21 Jan 1932
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/29
Title:
File 791/1904 Pt 4-5 'Orders in Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing Orders in Council: Part 4 concerns Orders in Council and documents on the deportation to India under Order in Council of British Indian subjects convicted in Siam, Zanzibar, Jeddah and Egypt. Part 5 concerns the Ottoman Order in Council 1910; and the app...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1884-15 Aug 1911
Extent:

1 volume (224 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/361

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/361
Title:
File 985/1913 Pt 1 'Persia: Consular and Diplomatic Expenditure'
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with diplomatic and consular expenditure in Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Siam, which is shared by both the Imperial (London) and Indian Governments. The papers therefore focus on financial adjustments to be made between the India Office and the Foreign Office. Accounts of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1913-22 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/109
Title:
File 442/1907 'Persian Gulf: British and German shipping; German competition'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the issue of competition from German shipping, 1907-1911. Included are a number of reports with statistical tables: List of cargo shipped per SS Canadia from Antwerp (14 July) and Hamburg (16 July)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/30
Title:
File 868/1904 Pt 1-2 'Consular'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing consular matters: Part 1 concerns exemptions of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal taxation; Part 2 concerns exemptions of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs Duties. The volume comprises two parts: 1 and 2. Each part inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/455

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/455
Title:
File 2696/1914 Pt 1-2 'Anglo-Russian Agreement'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Anglo-Russian Agreement'. The volume concerns proposed changes to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, following a completed draft convention between Britain, China, and Tibet (completed in April 1914, but not signed by the Chinese Government)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1914-15 Jun 1918
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/307
Title:
File 4345/1912 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports, a press cutting and a map, relating to the connection of the railway system of Europe to the railway system of India by the construction of railway lines through Persia. The discussion in the volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1913
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/751
Title:
File 3156/1918 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: Administration- [Past, Present & Future] Parliamentary Questions & Public Criticism 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, reports, minutes, Parliamentary notices and extracts from Hansard and from The Times newspaper. The correspondence is mainly related to Parliamentary questions, addressed to the Prime Minister or to the Secretary of State for India, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
11 Feb 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)