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1. IOR/H/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to Persia and central India
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to Malcolm’s diplomatic Mission in Persia [Iran] 1810 and relations with Sir Harford Jones, HM Ambassador to Persia (folios 7-148). The remainder of the volume relates to Malcolm’s activities in Central India as Political Agent to the Governor-General of India, following the Pi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1808-26 Feb 1819
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/4
Title:
File 160/1903 'Persian Gulf: El Katr; appointment of Turkish Mudirs; question of Protectorate Treaty with El Katr'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, copies of correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding: Turkish claims over El Katr (Qatar), and the creation of Turkish administrative posts on the Qatari coast, with 'mudirs' (sub-governors) being assigned during 1903 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1902-16 Dec 1910
Extent:
1 volume (425 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/606
Title:
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/686
Title:
File 2571/1917 'MESOPOTAMIA: FUTURE ADMINISTRATION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-10 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1271/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1271/1
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 8 ‘ – PERSIAN GULF – QUESTION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTORATES OVER KOWEIT, BAHREIN, MUSCAT, TRUCIAL COAST.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the question of whether Koweit [Kuwait], Bahrein [Bahrain], Muscat, and the Trucial Coast Sheikdoms should become formal British protectorates, including the views on this question of the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; HM Minister at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1927-14 May 1929
Extent:

1 item (96 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1296
Title:
Ext 216/48 'Revision of General Instructions to Immigration Officers (list of territories)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding revisions to the list of Protectorates and Mandated Territories that are the respective responsibilities of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth Relations Office, Foreign Office and India Office, for inclusion in a new edition of the General Instructions to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1948-9 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4
Title:
A Note to the Vice-Consul in Tehran Proposing a British Protectorate on the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Aden
Scope & Content:
A handwritten note from [Arthur William Moore?] to the Vice-Consul in Tehran, Harry Lionel Churchill, in which the author suggests that the British formally declare a Protectorate over a portion of the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden recently evacuated by the Egyptians. However, he warns again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:

4 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B47
Title:
British protectorate over the Arabian coast from Shaikh Said to Oman (Muscat)
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, compiled on 1 November 1887 by E Neel at the Secret and Political Department of the India Office, contains excerpts of correspondence sent and received by the Government of India between 14 February 1873 and 19 August 1887. The main subject is the extension of the Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1887
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B140
Title:
Aden Boundary
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum on the Aden boundary delimitation prepared by Colin George Campbell for the India Office, with telegram excerpts from the Secretary of State for India, the Political Resident at Aden, and the Viceroy of India. It includes an update on developments with regard t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1903
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B156
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Aden Frontier Delimitation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum giving an account of the Aden frontier delimitation, and treaty relations with the Aden tribes from 1873. Compiled by the Foreign Office, 11 December 1905. It discusses the following: tribes with whom Her Majesty's Government has direct relations; boundary disp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)