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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary of State for India and Burma, United Kingdom, 1935-1947

1. IOR/L/PS/12/424

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/424
Title:
PZ 5697/40 'Persian Gulf: Disposal of Consular Bags'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the dispatch of consular bags. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Secretary of State for India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1940-12 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/313
Title:
Complaint regarding repetition of "Most Secret" Foreign Office telegram
Scope & Content:
The main focus of the file is a deciphered telegram (folio 5), sent from the Government of India External Affairs Department to the Secretary of State for India, which contains intelligence relating to a potential threat to British interests in Asia from Germany and Russia. The next letter, from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1939-17 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1180
Title:
Ext 7521/46(S) 'Special distribution of Intelligence Summaries, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a list of distributed Intelligence Summaries received from across regions on the Frontiers of India and related correspondence from William Millward (Government Communications Headquarters) and Eion Pelly Donaldson (India Office). The file also includes correspondence regardi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1946-12 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/785
Title:
Ext 271/43 Censorship of messages sent by Turkish mission in New Delhi
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Government of India, External Department, to the Secretary of State for India, informing that restrictions were applied to the messages sent by the Turkish mission in New Delhi.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1193
Title:
Ext 330/47 'Political Resident Persian Gulf: visit to Bakhah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter to the Secretary of State for India from William Rupert Hay (Political Resident, Persian Gulf) reporting on his visit to Bahrain during which he was accompanied by the Political Agent, Bahrain. The correspondence also contains a note on the port of Bakhah in Oman which ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1947-14 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/380B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/380B
Title:
PZ 2885/40 'Proposed trade mission to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a decipher telegram from the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Secretary of State for India regarding trade opportunities and the desirability of a war trade agreement with Iran. The telegram also refers to concerns over Iranian exports to Germany, and tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/917

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/917
Title:
Ext 2033/44 'Shaikh Salman of Bahrain: judicial training in Palestine'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding arrangements for the Civil and Criminal case judicial training of Sheikh Salman Bin Muhamed (the fifth son of senior uncle of the Ruler of Bahrain) in Palestine, resulting from a lack of court judges with judicial training in Bahrain. The file also inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1944-16 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/25
Title:
PZ 3162/31 'Persian Gulf: Political Resident's Interview with Secty of State'
Scope & Content:
Thefile contains papers regarding a meeting between Lieutenant-Colonel HughVincent Biscoe, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and William WedgwoodBenn, Secretary of State for India. The meeting was at the Resident’s requestand took place in London in June 1931. The main topics of conversatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1931-18 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/380A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/380A
Title:
PZ 287/40 'Deportation from Persia into British Indian territory'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the deportation of three Polish men (Oligierd Stolyho, Adam Backer and Josef Bekerman), one Lithuanian man (Bronistew Bogussewier), one Ukrainian man (Iwan Basileffsk) and one Russian woman (Tatiana Chinnova) from the Persian Border to British Indian te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1940-30 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1169
Title:
Ext 6299/46 'Travel facilities for pilgrims'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to travel arrangements for residents of the Persian Gulf on the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, particularly regarding fees and repatriation responsibilities. The main correspondents are as follows the Government of India, Department of Communications; the Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1946-8 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)