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1. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277
Title:
Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/856/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/3
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 3 'Persia: Revision of Customs Tariff'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: deciphered telegrams; correspondence; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; and India Office draft telegrams, draft letters, minu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-16 Jun 1923
Extent:
1 item (155 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/54
Title:
PZ 3067/32 'Regulations governing importation of live-stock and animal products into foreign countries'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding regulations governing imports of livestock and animal products into Afghanistan, India, Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait and the Trucial States. The primary correspondents are: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1931-27 Aug 1932
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/539
Title:
Ext 4198/41 'Treatment of Iranian goods. at Assab.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iran, the Foreign Office, the Government of India, External Affairs Department, and the Secretary of State for India, regarding the possible release or confiscation of a cargo of Iranian goods held at Assab, on account of the cargo's comp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1941-16 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/881

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/881
Title:
Ext 6470/43 'Stores from Australia for Bahrain Petroleum Company'
Scope & Content:
Thefile contains a request from the Political Agent, Bahrain, that the Middle EastSupply Centre grant an exemption on import licence requirements to the BahrainPetroleum Company, in order to facilitate the importing of supplies fromAustralia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1943-25 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/951
Title:
Ext 4741/44 'Shipment of supplies to Muscat: Mozambique sugar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding imports of sugar, tea and other commodities from Mozambique to Muscat, and their onward export to Persia. The file covers considerations of increased restrictions on such imports and potential withholding of tea from India in order to uphold rationing. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1944-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1154
Title:
Ext 4728/46 'Requests of Messrs Wimpey and Co Ltd for information on taxation or import duty restrictions in Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding enquiries made by George Wimpey and Company Limited with the India Office (Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison), Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Kuwait on taxation or import duty restrictions. The correspondence also cont...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1946-12 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3001

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3001
Title:
Coll 20/41 'Muscat: Prohibition of Import of Intoxicating liquors into Muscat'
Scope & Content:
A letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (forwarded from the Foreign Office), Bahrain to Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, June 1948. The letter gives details of a prohibition on the import of liquor into Oman recently announced by the Sultan of Muscat. A translation of the Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1952
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/171
Title:
File 1/A/48 III FOOD CONTROL.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the effects of the implementation of controls on the import and export of food and other commodities in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1942-8 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (278 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/172
Title:
File 1/A/48 IV FOOD SUPPLIES.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the availability of food supplies in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast, at a time when rationing and a quota system for imports had been introduced as a result of the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Gujarati
Date Range:
27 Jul 1942-1 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (330 folios)