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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Karun River, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/18/C36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C36
Title:
'Karun River: Memorandum by Mr Baring'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a response from Walter Baring to Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's argument that the potential benefits of opening up the Karun [Kārūn] River to steam navigation are outweighed by the potential problems (see IOR/L/PS/18/C35). It argues that the Karun River scheme should not be com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1882
Extent:

2 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/10/487, f 265

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/487, f 265
Title:
'Part of River Karun'
Scope & Content:
The map shows part of the Karun River, the area surrounding Shustar. The map indicates hydrology, settlements, relief (shown by hachures), pipe and telephone lines, roads and routes, telecommunications and oil infrastructures. The map was corrected from previous surveys by triangulation, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/L/PS/18/C35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C35
Title:
'Karun River: Memorandum by Sir H Rawlinson'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's opinion that the importance of opening up the Karun [Kārūn] River to steam navigation has been vastly overstated; the difficulties outweigh the potential benefits. It also includes some discussion of the overland routes into Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1882
Extent:

1 folio

4. IOR/L/PS/10/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2-3 Mohammerah
Scope & Content:
This file contains parts two and three of the subject Mohammerah 1552: Part two contains papers related to the operations of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company on the Karun River: folios 127-274. Part three contains papers related to proposed irrigation schemes in the Karun River ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1915
Extent:

3 volumes (293 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C37
Title:
'Karun River: Note by Sir O St John'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — written by Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John — offers a differing opinion to that offered by Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (see IOR/L/PS/18/C35) and Walter Baring (see IOR/L/PS/18/C36) on the Karun [Kārūn] River project. It argues that both have overestimated the difficultly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1882
Extent:

2 folios

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1010

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1010
Title:
File 3852/1921 'PERSIA: AHWAZ CONSULATE BUILDINGS'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the establishment of British consular offices and accommodation at Ahwaz [Ahvaz, also known as Naseri, Khuzestan] during the period 1918-32, proceedings which were particularly driven by: the end of hostilities with the Central Powers (Treaties of Sevres, 1920, and Lausann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1932
Extent:
1 volume (404 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C248
Title:
Précis of the Affairs of the Persian Coast and Islands, 1854-1905 By J A Saldanha, BA LL B
Scope & Content:
This volume is a collection of correspondence about the Persian Coast, selected by Jerome A Saldanha and printed in Simla in 1906. The volume is divided into twelve chapters: Internal Affairs, with list of officials and events (folios 7-16); Claims of the Imam of Maskat [Muscat] to the islands...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1906
Extent:

1 volume (106 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3400, f 736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3400, f 736
Title:
Map of the border region between Iraq and Persia
Scope & Content:
Pencil sketch showing the border region between Iraq and Persia [Iran]. The map indicates the Karun and Bahmanshir rivers, the coastline of the Persian Gulf and the Shatt al-Arab, and the towns of Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], and Basrah [Basra]. A red pencil line indicates the border...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/L/PS/12/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/173
Title:
PZ 5840/35 'Mohammerah Port Regulations'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the establishment of a Port Office at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and accompanying port regulations. The discussion in the volume relates to the following regulations: Accidents relating to water transport...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1935-29 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)