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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 143-147
Title:: Zanzibar Affairs
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning Zanzibar affairs. The papers include: the suppression of the slave trade, and the British Government's wish to end the subsidy paid by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Ruler of Muscat. The papers include c...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 May 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 148-155
Title:: Bandar Abbas Affairs
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871 concerning affairs at Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]. The papers cover: complaints about oppressive revenue farming at Bandar Abbas; the proposed lease of Bandar Abbas from the Government of Persia to Syud Toorkee [Sa...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Jul 1871-14 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 156-242
Title:: Rebellion of Mohammad Yaqub Khan
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning the Rebellion of Mahomed Yacoob Khan [Mohammad Yaqub Khan] in Afghanistan. The papers cover: telegram from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], concerning Persian policy in Afghanistan (fo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Jun 1871-14 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (87 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 243-251
Title:: Persian Movements on Chaga and the Seistan Boundary
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning Persian movements on Chaga [Chagai] and the Seistan [Sīstān] Boundary. The papers cover: political intelligence; tribal movements; reports of raids; the possibility of a threat by Persia against the terr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Aug 1871-17 Oct 1871
Extent:: 1 item (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 251-259
Title:: Claims of the Sultan of Lahej to Little Aden
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning the claims of the Sultan of Lahej to Little Aden, part of the territory of the Akrabee [Akrabi] tribe. The papers cover: summary of relations between Lahej, the Akrabi tribe, and the British Government; ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Aug 1871-17 Oct 1871
Extent:: 1 item (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 260-270
Title:: Muscat and Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871. The papers consist of telegrams from the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, enclosing correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Aug 1871-17 Oct 1871
Extent:: 1 item (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 271-273
Title:: Railways in Persia
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The letter encloses one from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 17 July 1871, describing the history of the Persian Government's interest in railway construction, and stating the need for such...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:: 1 item (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277
Title:: Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:: 1 item (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 278-279
Title:: Letter from the Government of India to the India Office, requesting copies of the report on overland trade between Russia and China
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item (2 folios)

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