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1. IOR/F/4/2142/102306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2142/102306
Title:
‘Aden. Application from the Jewish inhabitants of Aden, for compensation on account of losses which they allege they have sustained by their Houses having been pulled down to admit of a new road being constructed.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which form partial enclosures to a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 14 February 1846. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102302, alongside deta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1845-14 Feb 1846
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2143/102475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2143/102475
Title:
‘Persia. Claims of British Officers against the Government of.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 March 1846. The item relates to the settlement of claims...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1837-31 Mar 1846
Extent:
1 item (45 folios)

3. IOR/F/4/2181/106067

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2181/106067
Title:
‘Persian Gulf – Certain Merchants of Bombay solicit that they may be recommended to the protection of the Resident in the – Vol: 13’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Government of Bombay. It is the thi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1846-23 Jan 1847
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

4. IOR/F/4/2225/110811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2225/110811
Title:
‘Bombay – Application of certain inhabitants of for the protection of their Agent at Bushire from the extortions of the Governor of that place-’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Government of Bombay Political Consultation, 14 April 1847. The item contains a petition from merchants at Bombay [Mumbai] to the Governor of Bombay, dated 9 March 1847. The merc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1847-14 Apr 1847
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/F/4/2416/130517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2416/130517
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Coja David Sassoon, a native merchant of Bombay.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twelfth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1850-21 Oct 1850
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

6. IOR/F/4/2528/145857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2528/145857
Title:
‘Persia Application preferred by Syud Muheen Shah a Native of Pisheen, for the grant to him of a Pension as a reward for past services rendered to the British Government, referred for the decision of the Government of India & negatived by that Authority.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 16 July 1853. The item relates to multiple requests to the Government of Bombay for aid,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1851-16 Jul 1853
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

7. IOR/F/4/2575/152553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2575/152553
Title:
‘Persian Gulf Dismissal of Eliahu Shroff and the entertainment of Zahooda in his place.~’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1854, and found at IOR/F/4/2575/152543. It is the eleventh in a series of thirteen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1854-16 Mar 1854
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/306
Title:
Petition to Ali Pasha from Inhabitants of Bussora
Scope & Content:
A petition in Arabic to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] from inhabitants of Bussora [Basra]. The petition complains of the conduct of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, in particular regarding the affair of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor. An English versi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)