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1. IOR/L/PS/10/646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/646
Title:
File 179/1917 ‘Persia: famine relief‘
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the famine that affected Persia [Iran] during the First World War (specifically the years 1917 and 1918) and attempts made by British officials in Persia to alleviate the effects of famine. The file includes: reports from British officials of famine co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1916-14 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (161 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/327
Title:
PZ 376/1940 'Turkey: Earthquake in Turkey, 1939.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the 1939 Turkish earthquake. It largely consists of: copies of letters from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Counsellor, British Embassy, Angora [Ankara], Turkey, forwarding enclosed correspondence reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1940-14 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/824
Title:
Ext 2725/43 'Anglo Persian Relief Fund'
Scope & Content:
This file consists primarily of letters, telegrams and reports regarding the Anglo Persian Charitable Relief Committee to Iran. The file contains two reports entitled 'Anglo-Iranian relief fund.' These reports list the cities that received aid from the fund and the amounts. The file contains a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1943-18 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1294
Title:
Ext 164/48 'Persian Famine Relief Fund'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the disposal of funds from the Persian Famine Relief Fund based in Bushire. The papers discuss the transfer of the funds from them being under the name of the Government of India to that of a local Persian Charity, as well as the principal and historical inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1948-12 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1570
Title:
‘16/58 Contributions for the sufferers of Bombay fire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence received by the Political Agency relating to a donation of five hundred Indian rupees from the Bahrain merchant Rao Sahib Jashanmal, and the institution of a relief fund in Bombay [Mumbai], for the benefit of people suffering in the wake of the Bombay dockyard explosion and subseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1944-29 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)