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1. IOR/F/4/2667/177858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2667/177858
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Ali Acbar bin Hajee Jaffer. Request of – to be informed whether he can ship merchandize to Bunder Abbas and Bushire and calculate on the protection due to a British subject.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 17 November 1856. The political letter appears in IOR/F/4/2667/177852. The enclosu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1856-17 Oct 1856
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 387-414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 387-414
Title:
Affairs in Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 43 of 1847, dated 29 April 1847. The enclosures are dated 18 October 1844 to 20 April 1847 and contain correspondence relating to affairs in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]. Papers include: a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1847
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/768
Title:
Ext 6064/42 Pro-Axis plot in Persia; discovery of Mayer documents, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, telegrams, and reports from the Government of India External Department; the Commander in Chief in the Middle East; the War Office; the Foreign Office; the British Embassy in Tehran; and the Minister of State in Cairo, regarding a German-Persian plot for a coup ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1942-21 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4596
Title:
Coll 45/12 ‘Propaganda: British Propaganda in Iran – Publicity (Broadcasting, Films, Posters, etc)’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on British propaganda in Persia [Iran]. The correspondence is primarily between the following: the Secretary of State for India; the External Affairs Department of the Government of India; the British Ambassador to Persia; the Foreign Office; and Henry Duncan Gr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
2 Oct 1940-18 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (422 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/34
Title:
‘Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, etc.: Made by certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and certain British trading companies’
Scope & Content:
This volume is a printed report, published by the Government of India Press (Calcutta [Kolkata]: 1926), constituting a collection of assurances, undertakings and agreements made by chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and trading companies between 1890 and 1922. · No....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1926
Extent:

1 volume (56 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/471-549

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/471-549
Title:
File 53: Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait subject files cover a comprehensive range of topics related to Kuwait and the surrounding area. The files contain correspondence regarding the nature and development of the British Government's involvement in Kuwait, Kuwait's foreign relations (notably with the Ottoman Empire, Najd/Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish
Date Range:
1896-1939
Extent:
79 files and volumes (16,694 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/556-609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/556-609
Title:
File 61: Najd
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Najd region, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and its ruler, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd, commonly known as Ibn Sa‘ūd. The papers cover the period from Ibn Sa‘ūd's rise to prominence after taking Riyadh in 1902, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1905-1944
Extent:
54 files and volumes (12,432 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/638-642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/638-642
Title:
File 25 Treaties
Scope & Content:
The Treaties subject files comprise copies of, and in some instances correspondence relating to, a number of international agreements and treaties, which are as follows: correspondence relating to the text of the Saudi-Yemeni Treaty of Taif, 1934 (IOR/R/15/2/638); a copy of the 1938 Agreement be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1948
Extent:
5 files (99 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/795-800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/795-800
Title:
File 30 Middle East Policy
Scope & Content:
There are six surviving files containing correspondence, dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about various aspects of British policy in the Middle East. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. There are seve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1950
Extent:
6 files (514 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111/159

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/159
Title:
‘1900. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. CORRESPONDENCE WITH SECRETARY OF STATE, LORD SALISBURY, & SIR A. GODLEY.’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of printed copies of letters to and from Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, dated 4 January to 27 December 1900. The correspondence is mainly between Curzon and Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India. It also includes correspondence between Curzon and Sir Arthur Godle...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901?
Extent:

1 volume (379 folios)