The map depicts the mouth of the Shatt El Arab waterway with soundings in feet. It includes a diagram of the settlement of Fao, the location of the 'Turkish Fort', and the telegraph station. The scale is stated as 1/97,280 or 1.535 statute miles to the inch. An arrow indicates magnetic north. ...
The map depicts Koweit [Kuwait] harbour and indicates soundings in feet. It also shows a diagram of Koweit [Kuwait] and indicates the location of the 'Sheik's House' as well as boats, docks, fish traps, trees, and also an area of mud and rock labelled 'El Akkaz'. A note below the title states: ...
A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter in Persian and a Kharita
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The file contains two letters (f 1 and ff 2-4), a paper envelope (f 5), and a two piece pouch envelope (un-foliated). The first letter (f 1) is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord Geo...
The item includes a letter (f 1), which is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord George Nathaniel Curzon. It is dated 19 Safar 1313 which is given as 11 August 1895. In the letter, the ...
The item includes a letter (ff 2-4) referred to as murasaleh (a type of letter), a paper envelope (f 5) and a two piece pouch envelope. These items together are called Kharita. Kharita is an official letter from a paramount power, usually sent in an elaborate silk cover and received with great c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
Kharita (a ceremonial illuminated letter, a paper envelope, and a two piece pouch envelope)
Report on the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts
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Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1897. The report concerns the proposal to secure the trade route between Nushki, in what was at the time British territory, and Nasirabad [Zabol] in the Seistan [Sistan] regio...
'Report of Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh, Attaché to the Agent to the Governor General of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khurasan and Sistan, on His Journey from Meshed to Quetta via Turbat-i-Haidari, Kain, Sistan, Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Nushki (7th April to 28th July 1898)'
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Report by Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh on his journey from Meshed to Quetta in 1898. The report starts with a description of the circumstances that gave rise to the journey and the preparations before departure (folios 12-17). The main body of the report consists of his account of the journey, writ...
Report on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route
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Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1898. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar repor...
Map to illustrate a report by Lieut. F. C. Webb Ware, I. S. C. on the Quetta-Sistan Trade Route
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The map depicts the region along the Afghan-Baluch boundary and parts of the Sistan area of eastern Persia. It was produced to illustrate the report of which it is a part and its central focus is the caravan route from Quetta to Sistan. Details of topography, routes, hydrology, and settlements a...
Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line
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Report by William King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Printed at the Commissioner's Press, Karachi, 1899. The report is an investigation of proposed routes for the Central Persia Telegraph Line and is based on a journey undertaken by the author from Shiraz to...
