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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Karachi, British India

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 1. September 26th, 1914 to October 17th, 1914.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D between 26 September 1914 and 17 October 1914. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, which include: correspondence; tel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1914-17 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/307
Title:
File 4345/1912 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports, a press cutting and a map, relating to the connection of the railway system of Europe to the railway system of India by the construction of railway lines through Persia. The discussion in the volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1913
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2008

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2008
Title:
Coll 5/54 ‘Afghanistan: Training of Afghan Air Personnel in India’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to arrangements for the training of personnel for the Afghan Air Force by the Government of India: such as accommodation and messing arrangements, training provision, numbers of students, estimated expenditures, uniform requirements etc. The majority of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1937-15 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (258 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/786
Title:
File 29/27 Vol. I Dhal for Bahrain & T.C.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the export of Indian pulses, mainly dhal, from Punjab and Sind by sea from Karachi, to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities were in short supply and subject to Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1943-28 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/787
Title:
File 29/27 II Pulses for Bahrain and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about: the allocation of import quotas of Indian pulses for Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms in 1947; the arrangements of Bahrain and Dubai importing merchants with their exporters in Karachi, regarding shipments; and the Government of India’s subs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1946-6 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/788
Title:
‘File 29/28 Bran for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the export of bran from Punjab, by sea from Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential animal feed such as bran was in short supply and subject to Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1943-2 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/789
Title:
‘File 29/29 Tamarind for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the importation of surplus tamarind from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), when this fruit was subject to Government of India export licensing restrictions and import quotas in Persian Gulf cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1943-9 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1741

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1741
Title:
File 28/63 A Anti-locust work: routine correspondence
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agents at Bahrain and Sharjah, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India at New Delhi, Gray, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd. and other suppliers, on arrangements and expenditures for sending an anti-locust delegation from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1944-3 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/80

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/80
Title:
File 2/6 KARACHI - ADEN AIR ROUTE by IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (B.O.A.C). II-A/8
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, and reports related to the establishment of the Karachi-Aden, and the Muscat-Aden Air routes. The correspondence in the volume is also about the agreement between the Government of India and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 May 1941-8 Jan 1942
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

10. Photo 496/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6
Title:
Album of tour of the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views of a tour in the Persian Gulf, including locations such as Mathra, Muscat, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Linga [Lengeh], Bahrein [Bahrain], Bushire [Bushehr], Koweit [Kuwait], Mohammerah [Khorammshahr],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-18
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album