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1. IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 697-699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 697-699
Title:
Jurisdiction of the Maritime Truce
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 32 of 1870, dated 27 May 1870, containing an enclosure dated 9 February 1870. The enclosure consists of a copy of a letter from Commodore Leopold George Heath, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies St...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1870
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/358, ff 334-337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/358, ff 334-337
Title:
The Case of the Dhow Belonging to Ras-el Khyma which was Captured by HMS Dryad in May 1871
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 19 of 1872, dated 6 May 1872, comprising an enclosure dated 20 November 1871. The enclosure consists of a letter from John Kirk, Acting Political Agent and HM Consul, Zanzibar, to the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1872
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 514-539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 514-539
Title:
The Case of Mahomed Rahim Sheerazee, the Persian Consul in Bombay
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 153 of 1846, dated 30 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 7-15 December 1846. The enclosures relate to events following the decision by HM Supreme Court of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1846
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 484-495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 484-495
Title:
Measures for the Suppression of the Trade in Enslaved Persons
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1856, dated 12 August 1856. The enclosures are dated 6 July-8 August 1856. The enclosures comprise communications between Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 547-553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 547-553
Title:
‘Persian Gulf: Angaum, Murder of certain parties on the Island of’
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 47 of 22 December 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1859-22 Dec 1859
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/7/7, ff 709-712

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/7, ff 709-712
Title:
Political No. 46 of 1876, Jurisdiction inPersia of the Political Resident
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a copy of a Political Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 46 of 1876, dated 25 February 1876, submitting enclosures related to whether the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf has legal jurisdiction over claim...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1876
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/572/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
Scope & Content:
Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jul 1918-6 Apr 1922
Extent:

1 item (187 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/67
Title:
PZ 1372/33 'Guardianship of the heirs of the late Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the guardianship of the heirs of the late Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk. The discussion in the volume relates to the appointment by the British Court in Persia of HM Consul, Shiraz, as guardian of the children'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-9 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/1465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1465
Title:
Coll 1/29 'Aden Protectorate: legal status of subjects of the Hadhramaut; reports on Hadramis in Mecca, 1936, by the British Legation, Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the India Office, the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, the Political Department of the Government of India, and the High Commissioner in Cairo, regarding the legal status of Hadramaut [Hadramawt] subjects; plus minutes regarding Saudi influence in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1924-13 May 1936
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2764
Title:
Coll 15/3(1) 'Egypt. Abolition of Capitulations in Montreux Conference and Convention 1937'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, letters, correspondence, memoranda, notes and Parliamentary questions relating to the 1937 Montreux Conference on the abolition of capitulations in Egypt. These capitulations had created extra-territorial jurisdiction for many foreign powers in Egypt, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1936-18 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 volume (606 folios)