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51. IOR/L/PS/18/C166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C166
Title:
Telegrams Relating to the South Persia Rifles
Scope & Content:
This file concerns control of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. It consists of the following telegrams: Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain] to the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], 9 January 1917; Viceroy of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1917-6 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/20/C244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C244
Title:
Précis of Mekran Affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of affairs relating to Makrān (spelt Mekran throughout) coast in the south of Sindh and Baluchistan. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1905 by the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/20/C247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C247
Title:
‘Précis of correspondence on international rivalry and British policy in the Persian Gulf, 1872-1905.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of British Government correspondence relating to international rivalry and British policy in the Persian Gulf between 1872 and 1905. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Servic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (58 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/20/E96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E96
Title:
A précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan. By Lt A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This volume was published by the Superintendent Government Printing in Calcutta in 1912 and marked as very confidential. The first part of the volume concerns the Relations of the British Government with the tribes and shaikhs of Arabistan and included list of officials in Arabistan (folio 6) and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/1/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38
Title:
Vol 44 Native letters outward
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of letters outward from the two successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, from April 1826 to March 1827, and Captain (later Major) David Wilson, from March 1827 to January 1829. There are also letters written by the Acting R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1826-26 Jan 1829
Extent:
1 volume, 244 items (85 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/40
Title:
'Book No. 46. 31 July 1826 to 19 February 1827'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, the Resident in the Persian Gulf, primarily to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government at Bombay and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia. The main subject of correspondence within the volume is the relationship betw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1826-19 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 volume, 156 items (140 folios)

57. IOR/R/15/1/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/42
Title:
'Book No. 49'
Scope & Content:
The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1827-11 Feb 1836
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

58. IOR/R/15/1/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/47
Title:
Vol 55 Letters outward
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written by David Wilson, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf based at Bushire. The bulk of the letters are addressed to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay and John Wedderburn, Accountant General in Bombay. The letters discuss relations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1828-21 Dec 1828
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/1/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/48
Title:
Vol 58 Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file contains translations of letters sent to David Wilson, the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The letters contained in the file are from Britain's native agents (based at Bahrain, Muscat, Sharqah [Sharjah] and Lingah) and from several local rulers including the Chief of Bushire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1828-17 Jul 1829
Extent:
1 volume (95 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/1/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/91
Title:
‘Vol 125 Native letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises copies of letters sent to the Residency (with some addressed to the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell) by the various government agents, including: Moollah Hussain, the agent at Sharjah; Khojah Reuben, the agent at Muscat; the Government agent at Bahrain [referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1840-27 Nov 1841
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)