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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Nationality Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 473-499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 473-499
Title:
Affairs in Persia
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 39 of 1846, dated 15 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in Qajar [Qājār] Persia [Iran]. Contents relate to: the deprivation of property and imp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1846
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/50/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6 'Koweit:- Status of Koweitis in Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the status of citizens of Koweit [Kuwait] in Persia, particularly in view of the fact that the British Government had not declared a formal protectorate over Kuwait, and that sovereignty over Kuwait was claimed by the Ottoman Empire. The principal correspondents are the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Aug 1905
Extent:

77 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1149
Title:
File P 1477/1925 Pt 3 ‘Persia: Abolition of Capitulations. Personal Status Cases.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the future position of foreign nationals in Persia [Iran], both Muslims and non-Muslims [also spelled in the volume as Moslems], in relation to Persian religious law, after the abolition of capitulations in Persia. The main issues covered in the vo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Oct 1927-16 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 volume (447 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3487

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3487
Title:
Coll 28/83 ‘Persia; Persian Nationality Law. Position of British subjects & British protected persons resident in Charbar.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers concerning the status of Indians (as British subjects, also referred to in the file as ‘khojas’) living in Charbar [Chābahār], Persia [Iran], who have had Persian nationality imposed upon them by a nationality law ratified by the Persian Government. The f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1934-1 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (143 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C16
Title:
Papers respecting the Protection to be granted to Persons of Persian Origin born in India
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of printed papers on the subject of whether persons of Persian origin born in India are entitled to protection as British subjects. The question arose from the fact that Persia did not recognise British nationality in persons of Persian descent. In particular, it referenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
May 1876
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1391-1409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1391-1409
Title:
File 13: British Protection and Nationality
Scope & Content:
The 19 surviving files about nationality contain numerous, individual applications dealt with by the British Agency, Bahrain, for the following services: the registration of British and British Indian subjects and British protected persons as Bahrain residents, 1926-1951; the registration of bir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1926-1951
Extent:
19 files (3,318 folios)