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91. IOR/L/PS/18/C36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C36
Title:
'Karun River: Memorandum by Mr Baring'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a response from Walter Baring to Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's argument that the potential benefits of opening up the Karun [Kārūn] River to steam navigation are outweighed by the potential problems (see IOR/L/PS/18/C35). It argues that the Karun River scheme should not be com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1882
Extent:

2 folios

92. IOR/L/PS/18/C55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C55
Title:
'NOTE ON BRITISH MISSION AT TEHERAN.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note written by Owen Tudor Burne, in which the author provides a historical summary of the administration of the British Mission at Teheran [Tehran], describing a number of occasions on which the Mission had been transferred, administratively and financially, between the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1887
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

93. IOR/L/PS/18/C129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C129
Title:
Defence of entrance to Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The memorandum contains a copy of a telegram (and supplementary notes) from the Government of India to the Secretary of State. It outlines the options open for securing Britain's naval supremacy in the Persian Gulf, in the event of the construction of a Trans-Persian railway which extends to the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1913
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

94. IOR/L/PS/18/B252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B252
Title:
IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE. Memorandum on Import of Munitions of War from the Dominions to the Persian Gulf consequent on Demobilisation.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by the India Office, regarding the sale of rifles by the Australian and New Zealand Governments to India, and a large quantity of Australian ammunition which had been shipped to Muscat.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

95. IOR/L/PS/18/C67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C67
Title:
Seistan and Mekran arbitration
Scope & Content:
This document opens by outlining the history of the boundaries between Persia and Seistan [Sīstān] and Persia and Mekran [Makran]. It goes on to discuss the involvement of the British with the dispute during the middle of the nineteenth century, and particularly focuses on the process of British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:

5 folios

96. IOR/L/PS/18/C169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C169
Title:
The Persian "Moratorium" scheme.
Scope & Content:
This file, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, India Office, concerns what is referred to as a moratorium scheme for Persia. According to the report, the scheme was first suggested by the Persian Government in March 1915, when it proposed that Persia should be relieved, for a fixed period of tw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

97. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2
Title:
No 2. Persia, Herat, and Seistan — (continued)
Scope & Content:
This memorandum continues on from IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1. It includes transcripts of select telegrams sent by the Viceroy of India (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) to the India Office between 1 January and 13 March 1880 on the subject of Persia and Herat. These telegrams convey the Viceroy's opinions con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1880
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

98. IOR/L/PS/18/C141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C141
Title:
'Memorandum on possible methods of Purchasing or Leasing the Islands in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines two forms by which islands in the Persian Gulf may be purchased from Persia, and three possible methods by which the islands may be leased instead; each proposal includes an estimate of the cost. It does not specify which islands the British hope to acquire by the proposed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1914
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

99. IOR/L/PS/18/B2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B2/1
Title:
Zanzibar, Muscat, and Persia. Memorandum by Political Secretary
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum written by John William Kaye, Political Secretary to the India Office, 1 July 1868. The memorandum discusses the complexities of relations between Muscat and Zanzibar, in the first instance, and Muscat and Persia, in the second instance, especially in light of the subsidy Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1868
Extent:

3 folios

100. IOR/L/PS/18/B274

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B274
Title:
Middle East Committee. Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners (Messrs. R E Holland and J H Wilson)
Scope & Content:
This printed note is the summary of recommendations to the Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners, Robert Erskine Holland and John Henry Wilson. These recommendations start from the premise that German commercial competition in the Persian Gulf was ultimately aimed at controlling the railway ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:

1 volume (3 folios)