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1. IOR/L/PS/10/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/197
Title:
File 6/1912 Parts 1-2 Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to insecurity in southern Persia, particularly around Shiraz. A lack of central authority in the region had led to lawlessness along many of the roads, including that between Bushire and Shiraz. The papers cover the British respon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (489 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/650/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/650/2
Title:
File 464/1917 Pt 3 'Persia. Bushire Hinterland'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to proposed military operations against the rebel khans of the Bushire hinterland. It includes papers regarding: an offer from Soulet-ed-Dowleh, the Ilkhani of the Kashgai tribe, of co-operation in clearing the Bushire to Shiraz road; the payment of subsidies t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1917-24 Oct 1917
Extent:

1 item (109 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/272, ff 444-447

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/272, ff 444-447
Title:
Affairs in Persia
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Duke of Argyll, HM Secretary of State for India, Number 42 of 1873, dated 7 March 1873. The enclosures are dated 25 January to 15 February 1873, consist of printed correspondence, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1873
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/730

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/730
Title:
File 299/1918 Pt 4 'PERSIA: situation in Fars and Kerman'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the situation in Fars and Kerman. Depredations by the Qashqais Report by Mr Clegg on the Qashqai Sarhadd and the political situation in Shiraz Events leading up to the departure of Sarim-ud-Dauleh from Fars Consular...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1922-5 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 volume (443 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3531
Title:
Coll 28/118 ‘Persia. Shiraz – Consular diaries.’
Scope & Content:
Consular diaries describing affairs in Shiraz and the surrounding area of Fars Province, Persia [Iran]. The diaries were submitted on a fortnightly basis (monthly from November 1945) by the British Consul at Shiraz. They cover the period of the Second World War, the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1942-27 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (361 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/224
Title:
Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian officials who have served at Shiraz. Delhi: Government of India, 1925
Scope & Content:
The volume contains lists of, and genealogical tables and biographies for, the notable families of Fars [Fārs] and Persian Officials at Shiraz [Shīrāz]. The volume includes a 'Sketch Map of Boundaries of Districts of Fars', found in a pocket at the rear of the volume (folio 53).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

1 volume (52 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B316
Title:
'Report on the prospects of obtaining oil in the Jabal-Hamrin and Jabal-Makhul between Tikrit and Sharqat by E H Pascoe, Geological Survey of India'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a document which provides topographical details for the mountain ranges of Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul in Fars with a view to obtaining oil from the area. Edwin Hall Pascoe provides a general overview of the area before discussing the following areas in more detail: rocks ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/357

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/357
Title:
File 795/1913 'Persia Situation in Fars'
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with the Persian Province of Fars; in particular the maintenance of the order and the authority of the Governor-General. The main focus of discussion is the Gendarmerie (under the command of Swedish officers) and a new local Persian force proposed by the Governor-General....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1912-18 Jun 1913
Extent:
1 volume (191 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/353
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 1 ‘Loans to Persia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to the advance of loans to Persia. Two different loans are discussed: a loan of £100,000, made by the British Government in May 1913 to the Governor-General of Fars (half of which was to be payable by the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Apr 1903-5 Feb 1914
Extent:

1 volume (236 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3449
Title:
Coll 28/44A ‘Persia; Internal; Fars Affairs; Lt G. F. Magee’s report entitled “The Tribes of Fars”’
Scope & Content:
Typescript copy of a secret report entitled The Tribes of Fars, written by Lieutenant G F Magee of the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, dated November 1945 (ff 9-236). Cover notes and a single item of correspondence, referring to arrangements for the printing of the report by the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1946-4 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (236 folios)