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1. IOR/L/MIL/7/12392

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/12392
Title:
Collection 269/140 'Minute by Sir E. G. Barrow on the Anglo-Persian Oil Agreement and the liability of India for the defence of the oil-fields'.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the liability of the Government of India for the defence of oil fields in Persia [Iran], following a conference on oil held in India in January 1914 and the 1914 agreement between HM Government and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). The file contains correspondence and mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1914-31 Jul 1914
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/18213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/18213
Title:
Collection 425/1045 ‘European War, 1914 to: Military Policy in Connection with the Bakhtiaris’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns military policy towards the Bakhtiari [Bakhtiyārī] tribe, which was responsible for the defence of oil fields and pipelines in Arabistan [Khuzestan] under an agreement with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The file contains correspondence between the General Officer Commanding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1915-6 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4488

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4488
Title:
Coll 44/9(S) ‘War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Persian Gulf: Maintenance of spare parts at Bahrein by oil companies operating in the Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to preparations for war. It discusses a proposal made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to keep in Bahrain (also written here as Bahrein) a large stock of spare parts in connection with the working of oilf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1939-29 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/R/15/2/873-891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/873-891
Title:
File 39: Oil Development
Scope & Content:
The nineteen files forming the 'Oil Development' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Oil Development' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, other British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
19 files (844 folios)

6. Mss Eur F112/295

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/295
Title:
Correspondence about Mosul and still more about oil (mainly with Walter Long) 1922-23.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon and other personalities concerning the substance of negotiations and treaties relating to the Mosul vilayet and related issues of oil resources. There are a total of sixteen letters between Curzon an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1922-Jan 1923
Extent:

1 file (58 folios)