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1. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/608

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/608
Title:
File 2976/1916 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Bunder Abbas Kerman Telegraph and Road'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 and Part 2 both contain papers relating to the construction of a telegraph line and road from Bandar Abbas (or Bunder Abbas or Bander Abbas) [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] to Kerman in Persia [Iran]; Part 2 also includes some papers relating to the development of road...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1922
Extent:
1 volume (370 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/376
Title:
PZ 2540/40 'Censorship: connivance at use of cypher in messages to and from Ibn Saud and the two Amirs'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two telegrams about the use of cypher in messages between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident, Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1497
Title:
Coll 1/59 'Aden. Lease of the Perim Coal Company at Perim: future of Perim and provision of a wireless set'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the operation of certain businesses on Perim, negotiations for their withdrawal from the island, and arrangements for the Government of India to assume responsibility for maintaining essential services previously provided by the companies. The papers primaril...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1935-21 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (456 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3424

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3424
Title:
Coll 28/27 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Delay + mutilation of telms for Tehran Legation. Suggested alternative arrangements.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel), and the British Legetation at Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr), concerning the desire to retain a British telegraphist at Tehran after the withdrawal of the Indo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1930-26 Mar 1931
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C119
Title:
Cable Communication: Landing Rights for the Cables of the Indo-European Telegraph Department in Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns various agreements — between the British and Persian Governments — relating to telegraphic communications between India and Europe via Persia. It outlines the landing rights that the Indo-European Telegraph Department has at Bushire and Jask. It also includes copies of a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1900
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C121
Title:
'Memorandum respecting Current Events in Persia for the Years 1906 and 1907'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns events in Persia, and diplomatic exchanges (predominantly between Britain and Russia) related to Persia, during 1906 and 1907. More specifically it covers the following topics: proposals by the Dutch engineer Graadt Van Roggen for a Karun irrigation scheme, and objections...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Dec 1907
Extent:

1 file (34 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C150
Title:
Telegraph Lines in Eastern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, which is attributed to Hermann Anderson Haines, Secretary, Public Works Department, and which provides a brief account of a number of agreements reached between the Government of India and the Persian Government (and between the Government of India and HM Treasury...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/27
Title:
Report on the preliminary survey of the route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line. By W King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Scope & Content:
Publication statement: Karachi: Government of India Telegraph Department, 1899. The report describes the 'Branch Section' (Ispahan to Ardistan), followed by the five 'Sections', and 'Unsuitable Routes', of the Central Persia Telegraph Line. For each section the report provides a description of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)