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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Henjam, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 620-628

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 620-628
Title:
Arrangements with the Chiefs Along the Coast for the Protection of the Land Line of Telegraph from Gwadur to Jask
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 15 of 1869, dated 19 April 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 18 March 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1869
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/230
Title:
File 759/1912 'Henjam Coal Depot: Persian Customs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the creation of a coal depot at Henjam Island, alongside the existing telegraph station. The discussion in the volume relates to the handling of relations with the Persian government in connection with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1923
Extent:
1 volume (215 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/242
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, typewritten correspondence, handwritten notes and other papers. These papers relate to the operation of British and Turkish post offices in Turkish Arabia (Iraq), and British and Persian post offices in Persia and the ports and towns of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1911-1914
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/659/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1A 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; improvements on original scheme; proposals for lights at Shaikh Shuaib, Henjam, Muscat and Jask'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the negotiations for the installation and maintenance of lighthouses and buoying in the Persian Gulf after the First World War, specifically at Muscat, Henjam and Sheikh Shuaib. Related matters of discussion include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1916-16 Nov 1917
Extent:
1 item (59 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/659/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/3
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1C 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Henjam lighthouse'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the sanction of expenditure and arrangements for the construction of a lighthouse on the island of Henjam after the First World War. Notable correspondents include the following: various departments of the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1917-22 Nov 1926
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1095
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 2 'PERSIAN GULF: NEGOTIATIONS 1928 HENJAM'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to British policy regarding the Gulf island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], occupied in part, on and off, by the British since the late nineteenth century. Interdepartmental correspondence refers to the establishment of a British telegraph station on the island in 1868, follo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jul 1926-25 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (962 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3420

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3420
Title:
Coll 28/23 ‘Relations with H.M.G: Negotiations 1928–31 Withdrawal of I.E.T Dept.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the drafting of an agreement between the Governments of Britain and Persia [Iran], concerning the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia, and the subsequent taking over of cables and equipment in Persia by the Persian Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
29 May 1931-12 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 volume (407 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3423

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3423
Title:
Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G. Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to food and supply shortages suffered by staff of the Indo-European Telegraph Department manning telegraph stations along the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf. The file’s principal correspondents include the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Imperial and Internatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1931-13 May 1932
Extent:
1 file (136 folios)