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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Mekran, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/18/C67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C67
Title:
Seistan and Mekran arbitration
Scope & Content:
This document opens by outlining the history of the boundaries between Persia and Seistan [Sīstān] and Persia and Mekran [Makran]. It goes on to discuss the involvement of the British with the dispute during the middle of the nineteenth century, and particularly focuses on the process of British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:

5 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3548

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3548
Title:
Coll 28/132 ‘Persia. Political Situation in Mekran.’
Scope & Content:
Six-monthly reports (referred to as appreciations) submitted by HM Consul at Zahidan [Zahedan] on the political situation in the province of Mekran (also spelt Mukran [Makran]), eastern Persia [Iran], and covering the period May 1944 to June 1947. Each report is organised under subheadings which...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1945-1 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/67/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/4
Title:
‘Abstract of Captain Grants Journal of a Route through the Western parts of Mekran’
Scope & Content:
A copy of an abstract of the journal of Captain Charles Grant, recording his journey through the western parts of Mekran [Makran], on the orders of Brigadier-General John Malcolm, for the main purpose of ascertaining how a European army could travel through this region to Scind [Sindh]. The copy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1809-1811
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/67/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/82
Title:
Enclosure in a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to the Secret Committee, received July 1810
Scope & Content:
A printed map to illustrate the route through Makran [Makrān] taken by Captain Grant of the Bengal Native Infantry between 29 January and 28 April 1809, as part of a series of route surveys on the frontiers of Persia [Iran] ordered by Brigadier-General John Malcolm. Covers a coastal area of appr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3415
Title:
Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’
Scope & Content:
Annual commercial reports for the provinces of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (from 1936, referred to as the provinces of Khorāsān and Mekran [Makran]), submitted by the British Consul for Sistan and Kain (from 1936, the British Consul-General for Khorāsān, Meshed [Mashhad]) (Clarmont Percival Skrine; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1928-5 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/67/81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/81
Title:
Enclosure in a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to the Secret Committee, received July 1810
Scope & Content:
A copy of the journal of a route through Makran [Makrān] to Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ‘Abbās] taken by Captain Grant of the Bengal Native Infantry between 29 January and 28 April 1809, as part of a series of route surveys on the frontiers of Persia ordered by Brigadier-General John Malcolm. The j...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C63
Title:
Boundary between Persia and North-West Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
Two documents exist within these folios, one of which was written by Hermann Anderson Haines, Assistant, Public Works Department, on 19 September 1893, and the next by Captain Frederick Weston Peile MacDonald on 15 August 1893. The first document by Haines explains the history leading up to the b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1893 - 19 Sep 1893
Extent:

9 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/9/67/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/67
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to Captain Grant, Native Infantry, Bengal Establishment
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Bridgadier-General John Malcolm to Captain Grant, Bengal Native Infantry, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 13 January 1809. The letter instructs Grant to proceed to Guada [Gwadar] and to travel from there across Mekran [Makrān] and Baloche [Balochistān] to Bunder Abbass...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1809
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 474-499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 474-499
Title:
Affairs in Sind, Bhawulpoor, Mekran, and Rajpootana
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 23 of 1853, dated 29 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-17 and are dated 28 December 1852 to 28 March 1853. The enclosures cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/594/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/594/1
Title:
File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’
Scope & Content:
The part contains reports, correspondence, and printed copies of correspondence, relating to affairs on the frontiers between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [Pakistan], as well as between British Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The part includes: reports of unrest and desertion amongst the Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1916-16 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 item (446 folios)