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101. IOR/L/PS/18/B284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B284
Title:
Eastern Committee. The future of Mesopotamia. (Note by Sir Percy Cox.)
Scope & Content:
This note was written by Major-General Percy Zachariah Cox in April 1918 in his capacity as Civil Commissioner, Baghdad. It consists of two main parts. The first part deals with the premises for British policy, namely, the proclamation issued on British arrival in Baghdad, that they had come to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/18/B268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B268
Title:
Employment of Japanese Troops in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum addressed to the War Cabinet by the Political Department of the India Office on the question of the employment of Japanese troops in Mesopotamia. It summarises the Government of India's views given in a telegram dated 21 November 1917, with military and politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1917-18 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/18/B391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B391
Title:
‘British political relations with Koweit.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, prepared by John W Field of the Foreign Office and dated 29 March 1922, is an historical overview of relations between the British Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait during the period 1897 to 1921. The first paragraph of the memorandum suggests that it was compiled in response to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1922
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/18/B458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B458
Title:
DUBAI OIL CONCESSION AND CONNECTED DOCUMENTS
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum reproducing a commercial agreement between Petroleum Concessions Limited and the Shaikh of Dubai, in which rights are granted to the former to prospect for oil in the State of Dubai. The memorandum also reproduces a political agreement between the British Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1937-6 Oct 1937
Extent:

10 folios

105. IOR/L/PS/18/B140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B140
Title:
Aden Boundary
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum on the Aden boundary delimitation prepared by Colin George Campbell for the India Office, with telegram excerpts from the Secretary of State for India, the Political Resident at Aden, and the Viceroy of India. It includes an update on developments with regard t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1903
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/18/B334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B334
Title:
Note on Central Arabia
Scope & Content:
This note gives a very short history of Central Arabia in thirteen paragraphs. Details are given concerning the history of Nejd [Najd], the rise and spread of the Wahhabi movement, and the Āl Sa‘ūd family and their relations with their neighbours, including the Āl Rashīd family, the Hashemite rul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1919
Extent:

1 folio

107. IOR/L/PS/18/B336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B336
Title:
Mesopotamia. Present Political Situation
Scope & Content:
This is printed memorandum is a report by Colin Campbell Garbett (initialled C C G), dated 28 October 1919, concerning an appreciation of the present situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] following complaints by Izzet Pasha of Damscus and others about British administration there. The report provides a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/18/B436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B436
Title:
HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM ON BAHREIN.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, describing the history of Bahrein [Bahrain] with a focus on the political status of the islands at various periods; the claims to sovereignty over them put forward by Persia at various dates since 1783; and the correspondence and discussions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 file (25 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/18/B289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B289
Title:
'Administration of Mesopotamia. Fortnightly Report by the Civil Commissioner, No. 17 (1st - 15th July [1918])
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a fortnightly administrative report (No 17) submitted by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, covering the period 1 to 15 July 1918. The report is split into four sections: (I) Administrative, which includes District Organisation, Revenue Board, Irrigat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1918
Extent:

3 folios

110. IOR/L/PS/18/B415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B415
Title:
Question of issue of Persian passports or travelling passes (Ilm-o-khabar) to subjects of Bahrein, 1910-1922
Scope & Content:
Memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, of the India Office, on the rules governing travel documents for Persians and Bahrainis travelling in the Persian Gulf. The document gives a brief historical overview on what procedures have been followed by the British and Persian governments since 1910. It...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

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