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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Herat, Afghanistan

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/68
Title:
Letter between two Persian Merchants
Scope & Content:
A translated extract of a letter from a Persian [Iranian] merchant in Yezd [Yazd] to Aga Baba [Ḥajī Muḥammad ‘Alī Iṣfahānī], a Persian merchant in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated c 10 March 1799. The letter states that, after gathering a large force in Persia, Shah Zadeh Mahmood [Mahmūd Durrānī] att...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 10 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 448-532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 448-532
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 26 of 1854, dated 28 April 1854. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1 March-14 April 1854. The papers relate to affairs in Persia [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1854
Extent:
1 item (85 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 343-349

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 343-349
Title:
Herat Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 44 of 1856, dated 10 June 1856. The enclosures are dated 29 May-8 June 1856. The enclosures consist of summaries of two letters which originated from pro-Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3414
Title:
Coll 28/18 ‘Persia; Diaries; Meshed intelligence Summaries 1931–’
Scope & Content:
Printed and typewritten fortnightly intelligence reports, submitted by staff at the British Consulate at Meshed [Mashhad]. Reports dated up to June 1931 were submitted by the British Military Attaché at Meshed (Major Leo Steveni). Reports after June 1931 were submitted by the Secretary to the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1931-12 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (148 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C28
Title:
Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided into the following chapter headings: 'General Status of Persia', ff 2r-12; 'Persia and Herat', ff 12v-24r; 'Persia and Seistan [Sīstān]', ff 24r-31v; 'Persia and Kohuk', ff 31v-35; 'Persia and the Navigation of the Karun [Kārūn] River', ff 35v-39r; 'Persia and her integ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1879
Extent:
1 file (78 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 488-490a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 488-490a
Title:
Political No. 75 of 1874, Forwarding Papers Regarding the Deputation of Captain George Campbell Napier to Enquire into the Circumstances Connected with a Raid on Herat Territory from Khaf
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 17 April 1874 and received via Brindisi on 11 May 1874, forwarding a copy of papers relating to the deputation of Captain George Campbell Napier to enqui...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1874-11 May 1874
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 357-364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 357-364
Title:
Political No. 118 of 1874, Forwarding Papers Regarding the Deputation of a Persian Agent to Herat
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 30 June 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 24 July 1874, forwarding, for information, papers regarding the deputation of a Per...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1874-24 Jul 1874
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/41
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
Scope & Content:
A copy of a report in French from Caboul [Kabul] received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], from merchants of Constantinople [Istanbul] in Bagdad trading with Caboul and Candahar [Kandahar] on 20 October 1798. The report states that Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghani...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
20 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)