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1. IOR/L/PS/20/C190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C190
Title:
Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters: I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1919
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 452-469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 452-469
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
The item contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches and memoranda concerning Bagdad [Baghdad] and Turkish [Ottoman] Arabia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1855-2 Apr 1855
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/272
Title:
Bulletin from Bagdad
Scope & Content:
The first part of a bulletin written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 20 September 1802. The bulletin describes a struggle for power in Bagdad between Ally Pasha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah] and the Janissary Aga [Commander of the local Janissary corps], in particular a batt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/273
Title:
Bulletin from Bagdad
Scope & Content:
The second part of a bulletin written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 20 September 1802. The bulletin describes a struggle for power in Bagdad between Ally Pasha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah] and the Janissary Aga [Commander of the local Janissary corps], culminating in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 343-350

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 343-350
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item consists of manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda and translations of letters concerning political developments in Bagdad [Baghdad] and Turkish [Ottoman] Arabia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1855-19 Mar 1855
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B255
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIAN ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. DRAFT REPORT OF COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
The draft report of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee containing recommendations made by the committee. These recommendations include: The occupied territories of Mesopotamia being administered in the future by His Majesty's Government and not by the Government of India; The Basra Vilay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 185-191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 185-191
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the rising of the Bohtan Kurds against the Turkish [Ottoman] Government and its impact on British imperial communications. Letters discuss the leadership of the insurgents led by Yezdisheer Bey (nephew of Beder Khan Bey) and how they obtained money from the Mosul Treasur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1854-31 Jan 1855
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/215
Title:
Extract of the Bagdad Residency Records
Scope & Content:
An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, consisting of a minute written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 13 February 1802. The minute concerns plague in Bagdad, describing the public punishment by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], with Jon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. 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

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B257
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
Table giving abstracts of proposals made by the War Cabinet, with comments on those proposals by Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and the Government of India. The proposals include: Occupied territories being administered by His Majesty's Government, instead of the Government of India Basra to remain un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917
Extent:

2 folios