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61. IOR/L/PS/20/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/60
Title:
FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THE GULF OF ADEN. COMPILED BY CAPTAIN E.J.E SWAYNE, 16TH BENGAL INFANTRY.
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of an intelligence document issued by the Government of India, Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, which provides comprehensive descriptions of French possessions on the African coast of the Gulf of Aden, including the towns of Obok [Obock] and Jibouti ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895
Extent:

1 volume (36 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/20/63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/63
Title:
The Muntafik. Al Sa'dun, Bani Malik, Ajwad, Bani Sa'id, Bani Huchaim
Scope & Content:
This volume contains details of the Muntafik [Muntafiq], a confederacy of tribes in the Middle East, which is made up of tribal groups including the Bani Malik, Ajwad and Bani Sa'id. The volume opens with a historical outline of the development of the group before providing further details about...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/20/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/64
Title:
PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES. 1903.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a printed report published by the 'Admiralty, Intelligence Department (No. 694). September 1903.', providing a compilation of available information of naval, military and political value about various locations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Places described include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1903
Extent:

1 volume (55 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/20/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/142
Title:
The Tribes of Fars
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a report on the tribes of Fars by G F Magee, Intelligence Corps, with an explanatory note on the purpose of the work and its contents by H G Jakins, HM Consul Shiraz. It was presented to HM Embassy by the Government of India in January 1950, and contains an inserted adden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1945
Extent:

1 file (107 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/20/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/235
Title:
‘ARAB TRIBES OF THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat [vilayet], and is a British intelligence document on the tribes living in the area around the city of Baghdad. It was compiled in July 1918 by the Arab Bureau, Baghdad (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department es...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (147 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/20/C57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C57
Title:
'Oman. Map of and Reports on by Major Ross'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of the following: memorandum on tribal divisions in the Principality of Oman to accompany table of tribes, by Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent at Muscat (folios 2-3); table entitled 'Principal Tribes of Oman', signed by Ross (folio 4). The table is divided between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2
Title:
‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS, AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART IV. THE PEOPLE OF SEISTAN’
Scope & Content:
Content Warning: This volume reflects commonly held views and prejudices of the era in which it was created. Such views and prejudices may now cause offence and upset. ‘SEISTAN [Sistan]. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART IV. THE PEOPLE OF ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/20/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
Title:
Personalities, Arabia
Scope & Content:
The volume is Personalities, Arabia (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917). The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (185 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/20/C143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C143
Title:
‘PERSONALITIES - ‘IRAQ’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Personalities, ‘Iraq, and is a British intelligence report, compiled around 1917 by the Arab Bureau, Basrah [Basra] Branch, on prominent individuals in Iraq at that time (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department established in 1916). The report wa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1917
Extent:

1 volume (51 folios)

70. IOR/L/PS/20/C151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C151
Title:
'TRIBES OF THE TIGRIS'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Tribes of the Tigris, compiled by the Basrah [Basra] Branch of the Arab Bureau, Cairo Intelligence Department. The publication is divided into sections covering the Al Azairij [Āl Azayrij], Ālbu Darraj [al-Bū Darrāj], Bait Haddād [Bayt al-Ḥaddād], Ālbu Muhammad ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (18 folios)