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1. IOR/L/PS/10/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/117
Title:
File 636/1907 'Turkish Arabia: Bagdad Consulate. Mr Gaskin (Commercial Asst). Detention by Turkish authorities (1914-1918). Settlement of accounts.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the appointment of John Calcott Gaskin as Commercial Assistant to the British Consul at Bagdad in 1906, and the decision for his salary to be paid jointly by the British Government Treasury and the Government of India. Following the outbreak of The First World War t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1904-28 Mar 1929
Extent:
1 volume (300 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1960

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1960
Title:
Coll 5/15 (2) ‘Afghanistan: Violations of Afghan Frontier by, and landing in Afghanistan of British aircraft; Landing of Afghan aircraft in India’
Scope & Content:
The file is made up of correspondence generated as a result of complaints submitted by the Government of Afghanistan to the Government of India, via the British Legation at Kabul. These complaints concern allegations of violations of Afghan territory by aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jun 1942-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (279 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3532
Title:
Coll 28/119 ‘Persia [Iran] Internment & repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Secret correspondence concerning the internment or repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia [Iran] during the Second World War. The correspondence covers: the estimated numbers of enemy nationals in Persia, including Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Italians, Romanians, Estonians and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1942-4 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/637
Title:
File 24/10 John Hinsler
Scope & Content:
The file contains only four documents, all dating from October 1946. There is a letter and enclosure from the British Embassy in Baghdad to the Political Agent, Bahrain asking him to take temporary custody of a seemingly harmless destitute calling himself John Hinsler, who had been detained in Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1946-15 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)