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

1. IOR/L/PS/10/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/102
Title:
File 2869/1906 Pt 2 'Arms traffic: Mekran Coast and Baluchistan. Correspondence (1908-9)'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the arms traffic on the Mekran coast and Baluchistan. The volume includes reports on the importation of arms from Muscat and measures taken by the British to curtail the trade. The reports were authored by the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1909
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/101
Title:
File 2869/1906 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: Mekran Coast and Baluchistan. (correspondence 1906-7)'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officers, reporting on the arms traffic along the Mekran coast and Baluchistan. Their correspondence contains numerous reports, such as that discussing the illicit traffic of arms. Correspondents include Sir Harold Arthur D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1907
Extent:
1 volume (284 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 139-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 139-144
Title:
Telegraph Constructionon the Mekran Coast
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 28 of 1869, dated 15 July 1869, containingenclosures dated 8 June-3 July 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto the payment of subsidies to local rulers on the Mekran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1869
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 538-542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 538-542
Title:
TelegraphConstruction on the Mekran Coast
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Governmentof India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 291 of 1869, dated 9September 1869, containing a copy of a letter from the Director of the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Sub-Marine TelegraphCompany, dated 17 June 1869. The letter reports that an offic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1869
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 102-104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 102-104
Title:
Affairs in Gwadur and Charbar
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 211 of 1869, dated 1 July 1869, containingenclosures dated 28 May-12 June 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto events in Gwadur [Gwadar] and Charbar [Chabahar], par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1869
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/115/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/4
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 9 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf:- Military operations.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses military operations which took place on the Mekran [Makran] and Shibkah coasts to suppress the illicit trafficking of arms there. The operations included naval vessels landing troops who were instructed to cut off raiding parties who had succeeded in illegally land...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1911-13 Jun 1911
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 105-112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 105-112
Title:
Telegraph Construction on theMekran Coast
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 212 of 1869, dated 1 July 1869, containingenclosures dated 12 March-31 May 1869. The enclosures consist of copies ofcorrespondence relating to theconstruction of telegraph lines onthe Mekran [Mak...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1869
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 607-609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 607-609
Title:
Affairs in Gwadur andCharbar
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 329 of 1869, dated 4 October 1869, containingenclosures dated 3-18 September 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto the movements of Ibrahim Khan [Ibrāhīm Khān], Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)