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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Spheres of influence

1. IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 82-97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 82-97
Title:
Afghanistan Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures Nos. 3 and 5 to Despatch No. 11 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 March 1860. The Enclosures include reports from Major William Lockyer Merewether, Political Superintendent of the Sind Frontier. The reports include intelligence on Russian and Persian influence in Af...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1860-5 Apr 1860
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B98
Title:
Memorandum on the proposed Turkish telegraph line from Taiz [Ta‘izz] to Aden.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, 8 January 1878, with later amendments up to 12 April 1882, regarding the proposal for a Turkish telegraph line from Taiz [Ta‘izz] to Aden. The memorandum discusses British policy towards the tribes surrounding Aden, and attempts by Turkish offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1882
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/FO14, f 282

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO14, f 282
Title:
SKETCH OF SOUTHERN PERSIA.
Scope & Content:
The map shows southern Persia [Iran] with its environs including Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Afghanistan, Baluchistan [Balochistan], the Persian Gulf and ‘Russian Territory’ to the north-east of Persia, as designed by Major Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes and traced by K[han] B[ahadur] Ashgar Ali [Aṣgha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1900
Extent:
1 map sheet