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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Mekran Coast, Asia

21. IOR/L/PS/18/C208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C208
Title:
Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with Persian Baluchistan, specifically focusing on Mekran [Makran] and Sarhad, which are regarded as being of particular geopolitical interest to Britain's Indian Empire. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the Fi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1922
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/20/249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/249
Title:
A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of copies of a series of agreements, engagements, and conventions concerning Britain and a number of related parties regarding the construction and/or extension of telegraph lines in Turkey, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran [Makran Coast] between 1853 and 1916. Related...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/20/C246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C246
Title:
Précis on slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1873-1905 (With a Retrospect into previous history from 1852) By J A Saldanha BA, LL B
Scope & Content:
This volume is a summary of events, treaties and correspondence about the suppression of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, curated by Jerome Anthony Saldanha, and printed in Simla in June 1906. The volume is marked as secret and divided into chapters: Measur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (63 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/1/221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/221
Title:
File 5/191 Kidnapping of Baluchis and Indians on the Mekran Coast and exporting them for sale at Oman and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between various British Government officials in the Persian Gulf, who were responding to a perceived increase in the trade of slaves across the Gulf of Oman, from the Baluchistan coast to the Batinah and Trucial coasts on the Arabian Peninsula. A significant pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1921-29 Jul 1922
Extent:

1 volume (249 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/1/222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/222
Title:
‘File 5/191 II Individual slavery cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to individual cases of the enslavement and trade of Baluchis from the Makran coast and Karachi, to the Trucial and Oman Coast, and in particular to Dubai. The correspondence is predominantly between Government representatives in Karachi/Sind, the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1922-17 Dec 1926
Extent:

1 volume (397 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/1/710, f 40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/710, f 40
Title:
The districts of Persian Mekran
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Shows administrative division with districts labelled for reference with boundaries indicated by pecked line.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 map

27. IOR/V/10/280/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/10/280/1
Title:
'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66'
Scope & Content:
Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1865-66. The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1866
Extent:
1 item (278 folios)

28. IOR/V/10/281/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/10/281/1
Title:
GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1867-68
Scope & Content:
Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1867-68. The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item (145 folios)

29. IOR/V/10/282/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/10/282/2
Title:
‘GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1870-71’
Scope & Content:
Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1870-71. The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871?
Extent:
1 item (248 folios)

30. IOR/X/3083

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3083
Title:
Mekran Coast, Sunmiani to Jask; with Major Ross’ route from Bela through Kowah and the Kej Valley. Also the territory under Muscat, Belooch chiefs’ tributary to Persia, &c.
Scope & Content:
Title from ‘A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, Deposited in the Map Room of the India Office’ published in 1878. Distinctive Features: Creation date ‘1867’ from pencil annotation in the bottom centre. Relief shown by hachu...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 map