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1. IOR/G/29/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32
Title:
Papers Relating to Sir Harford Jones's Residency at Bagdad [Baghdad] and his Diplomatic Mission to Persia [Iran]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, abridgements, and other papers relating to Sir Harford Jones’s Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad], 1798-1806, and his diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811. The papers cover a wide range of matters, mostly connected to the following: Jones’s mission to Per...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1794-1811
Extent:
1 volume (715 folios)

2. IOR/H/549-552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/549-552
Title:
Papers Primarily Relating to Brigadier-General John Jacob and the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57)
Scope & Content:
Volumes IOR/H/549, 550 and half of 552 relate to the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-1857 and the aftermath. Half of the papers in IOR/H/552 relate to Jacob's early career in the Indian Army of the East India Company and political affairs in Sind [Sindh] and Beloochistan [Balochistan], notably [Khelat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1875
Extent:
4 volumes (2436 folios)

3. IOR/H/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to Persia and central India
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to Malcolm’s diplomatic Mission in Persia [Iran] 1810 and relations with Sir Harford Jones, HM Ambassador to Persia (folios 7-148). The remainder of the volume relates to Malcolm’s activities in Central India as Political Agent to the Governor-General of India, following the Pi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1808-26 Feb 1819
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/5/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/806
Title:
Memoranda and papers by General Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding British military strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
The file chiefly comprises typescript and some manuscript copies of letters, memoranda, notes and minutes by General Herbert Vaughan Cox. There are three letters to Cox from external correspondents, some printed memoranda and one cutting from the Morning Post. Folios 1-2 comprise a list of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-8 Jan 1920
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
Title:
Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921
Scope & Content:
This previously secret file, compiled by the India Office, contains various papers relating to expenditure on the Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia between 1918 and 1921. The file opens with a note about the contents of the file, and is followed by an India Office Political Department ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 534-766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 534-766
Title:
Affairs in Sinde, Lahore and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department (Fort William) to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1838, dated 21 February 1838. The enclosures are dated 7 August-25 November 1837. The primary correspondents are: Lieutena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 item (233 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 407-545

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 407-545
Title:
Afghanistan and Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department (Camp at Kurnaul [Karnal]) to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 11 of 1838, dated 22 May 1838. The enclosures are dated 18 January-22 May 1838. The item comprises despatches betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1838
Extent:
1 item (139 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/227, ff 211-216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/227, ff 211-216
Title:
The Proposed Expedition to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1856, dated 3 May 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 12-29 April 1856. The enclosures comprise copies of letters ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1856
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 813-822

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 813-822
Title:
The Policy of the Government of India in the Gulf of Oman
Scope & Content:
Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 37 of 1871, dated 30 June 1871, containing enclosures. The enclosures relate to the policy of the Government of India in the Gulf of Oman, in continuation of Secret despatch No. 13 of 3 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1871
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 124-199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 124-199
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 37 of 1840. The enclosures are dated 2 March 1839 to 20 June 1840. The enclosures mainly consist of correspondence, mostly relating to Persian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1839-20 Jun 1840
Extent:
1 item (75 folios)