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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/7
Title:
Field notes: Aden Protectorate
Scope & Content:
Published in 1917 by the General Staff, India, this report is intended as a guide for officers serving in the field. Chapter headings are: history; geography; population; tribes; climate; Aden and Shaikh Othman; water supply; special notes for various branches; miscellaneous; personalities of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

28 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 156-165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 156-165
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 12 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 11 December 1856-14 January 1857. The papers comprise: A letter from Brigadier William Ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 367-428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 367-428
Title:
The Anglo-Persian War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 24 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 4-14 January 1857. The item comprises two despatches from Major-General Foster Stalker, C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (62 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 429-475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 429-475
Title:
The Anglo-Persian War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 54 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 5-29 January 1857. The primary correspondents are: Major-General Foster Stalker, Commandi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (47 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2160B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2160B
Title:
Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/C42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C42
Title:
Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, on Special Duty on the Perso-Afghan Frontier.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report written by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, in which he describes his journeys to and around Mashad, Herat and Merv in the vicinity of the Perso-Afghan frontier, and provides detailed intelligence regarding topography, settlements, com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1883
Extent:

1 file (40 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C44
Title:
Memorandum on the Russo-Perso-Afghan Frontier.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum written by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, in which the author discusses a proposed delimitation of the Russo-Perso-Afghan frontier by the Russian Government. The author points out that, aside from the difficulties of delimiting such featureless terrain, any artifici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/61
Title:
'REPORT ON A TOUR IN TURKISH ARABIA AND KURDISTAN APRIL-MAY 1910 BY J. G. LORIMER, ESQ., C.I.E., I.C.S., British Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad.'
Scope & Content:
Tour report written by John Gordon Lorimer from notes taken during his journey from 18 April to 22 May 1910. The report comprises information on topographical matters. The report is divided into sections describing each day's journey, giving start and end destinations, time travelled and topogr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/C104/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C104/1
Title:
‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS, AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART I TO III’
Scope & Content:
‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PARTS I to III’ (Calcutta [Kolkata]: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1910) by George Passman Tate. Parts I to III are an account of Seistan [Sistan]. It is based on a study of the history ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

10. IOR/X/10309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/10309
Title:
‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a ‘memoir’ written by Lieutenant Michael Houghton, draughtsman on board the Honorable Company’s ship Discovery, which consists of a description of places encountered during the East India Company’s survey of the Persian Gulf during the 1820s. The memoir covers the survey’s jo...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1822
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)