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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947

271. IOR/L/PS/18/B245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B245
Title:
Extracts of Communications relating to the Permanent British Occupation of Basra
Scope & Content:
The item contains extracts from a letter, telegrams and a note, covering the period November 1914 to December 1916, and all relating to the permanent British Occupation of Basra: Extract from a letter from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox to Persian Gulf and other Chiefs, including the Sheikh of Mohamerr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

272. IOR/L/PS/18/B256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B256
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIA ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
Copies of Telegrams between the Viceroy (Frederic Thesiger, The Lord Chelmsford), Secretary of State (Austen Chamberlain) and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the future administration of Mesopotamia, March to April 1917: Telegram P 1234 from Viceroy, Foreign Department, 26 March 1917: regarding the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-Apr 1917
Extent:

3 folios

273. IOR/L/PS/18/B261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B261
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Sir P Cox's position.
Scope & Content:
This collection of telegrams relate to the professional differences between Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, and General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. In the telegrams, Cox requests to be given more influence in his role or to be released from his duties. The b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917-Jun 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

274. IOR/L/PS/18/B293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B293
Title:
Memorandum on British commitments to the Idrisi
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum from the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning British commitments to the Idrisi Saiyid and Amir of Sabia [Saiyid Muhammad-bin-Ali-al-Idrīsi]. It contains quotes from correspondence by the Political Resident at Aden, the India Office...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918?
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

275. IOR/L/PS/18/B293A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B293A
Title:
Memorandum on supplementary British commitments to the Idrisi regarding the Farsan Islands
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum from the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning supplementary British commitments to the Idrisi Saiyid and Amir of Sabia [Saiyid Muhammad-bin-Ali-al-Idrīsi] regarding the Farsan Islands [Farasān, Jazā'ir] and the treaty of 30 April 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1919
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

276. IOR/L/PS/18/B369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B369
Title:
Aden. Future administration and incidence of cost.
Scope & Content:
Minutes, telegrams and a memorandum relating to the future administration of Aden and the costs incurred thereby, as follows: Minute by Mr Henry Fraser Howard, Controller of Finance, India Office (ff 120-125), in which he states the position before the First World War relating to the division of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1921-Sep 1921
Extent:

1 file (44 folios)

277. IOR/L/PS/18/B406

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B406
Title:
Question of British Consular Representation in El Hasa and Qatif
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the considerations of British representation in El Hasa [Al Hasa] and Qatif from 1904, with suggestions put forward by the Government of India and Sir Lionel Haworth, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It includes the reasons behind the need for represent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

278. IOR/L/PS/18/B429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B429
Title:
Text of Treaty, dated November 3, 1916, and ratified on March 23, 1918, between His Majesty's Government and Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani of al-Katar
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, printed by the India Office, is a copy of the English text of the 3 November 1913 treaty between Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani [Sheikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], ruler of al-Katar [Qatar], and His Majesty's Government, ratified on 23 March 1918. The preamble to the tre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1933
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

279. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1
Title:
Persia, Herat, and Seistan
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the state of diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia; it is the view of a number of British officials that the time is ripe to secure a privileged position for Britain at the expense of Russia. To this end it therefore discusses the pros and cons of ceding Herat, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1880
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

280. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2
Title:
No 2. Persia, Herat, and Seistan — (continued)
Scope & Content:
This memorandum continues on from IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1. It includes transcripts of select telegrams sent by the Viceroy of India (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) to the India Office between 1 January and 13 March 1880 on the subject of Persia and Herat. These telegrams convey the Viceroy's opinions con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1880
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)