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

1. IOR/L/PS/20/FO22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO22
Title:
‘PERSIA. 1905’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of published copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, the Treasury, the Admiralty, the Committee of Imperial Defence, the Board of Trade, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, British administrat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1906
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/C122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C122
Title:
'Memorandum on Persian Railways'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the development of proposals for railways in Persia between 1872 and 1911. This includes discussion of the potential advantages/disadvantages (both commercial and political) for the British in the construction of railways in Southern Persia, and the potential threat posed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Jun 1911
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/C219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C219
Title:
The Seistan Mission 1872.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of one handwritten and one typescript copy of a memorandum written in the India Office Political Department, in which the author describes the resolution, through British arbitration, of a dispute between the Governments of Persia and Afghanistan relating to the allocation of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

4. 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

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2
Title:
No 2. Persia, Herat, and Seistan — (continued)
Scope & Content:
This memorandum continues on from IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1. It includes transcripts of select telegrams sent by the Viceroy of India (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) to the India Office between 1 January and 13 March 1880 on the subject of Persia and Herat. These telegrams convey the Viceroy's opinions con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1880
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C66
Title:
Seistan arbitration case
Scope & Content:
This document was written by Sir Owen Tudor Burne on 19 November 1872, and is divided into the following sections: Section 1 - Brief abstract of Persia and Afghanistan History as connected with Seistan [Sīstān], including our policy in reference to the district Section 2 - Geographical and Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1872
Extent:

6 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 507-509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 507-509
Title:
Afghan policy on Seistan
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The letter encloses a report by the Agent at Cabul [Kabul], on the intentions of the Amir of Afghanistan in relation to Seistan [Sistan]. The Amir had given stringent orders to his dependent rulers not to allow any ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1871-2 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/378
Title:
PZ 2749/40 'Persia: Sardar Muhammed Amir Khan Nauroi'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from HM Consul General in Khorasan, Meshed (Giles Frederick Squire) to the Secretary of the Government of India External Affairs Department. The letter discusses and includes a report from HM Vice Consul, Zabul concerning his meeting with the Sarder [Sardir] Muhammad A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1940-15 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)