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131. IOR/L/PS/18/C83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C83
Title:
Memorandum on the Special Mission to Seistan and Mekran.
Scope & Content:
The memorandum provides a brief overview of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, on the subject of the boundary commissions for Seistan and Mekran [Makran] in 1872; headed by Frederic John Goldsmid. It is noted that the Foreign Office's refusal to pay a share of the co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1874
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

132. IOR/L/PS/18/B49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B49
Title:
Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, compiled on 30 June 1888 by Edmund Neel at the Secret and Political Department of the India Office, contains excerpts of correspondence sent and received by the Government of India and Political Residency in the Persian Gulf between 26 December 1873 and 18 April 1888. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1888
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

133. IOR/L/PS/18/B346

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B346
Title:
Mesopotamia. Proposed Constitution: Telegraphic Correspondence with Baghdad
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, dated July 1920, contains a series of reprinted telegrams in a single collection for the purposes of facilitating the discussions with Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the proposed constitution for Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It is noted that the series is not complete, but contains al...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1920
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

134. IOR/L/PS/18/B220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B220
Title:
‘Advance to Baghdad – Political Considerations. Note by Political Department, India Office.’
Scope & Content:
Note written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Secretary of the Political Department, India Office, on the political and strategic importance that would be associated with British forces taking Baghdad, and the likely political and strategic injury that the British would incur should they fai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1915
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

135. IOR/L/PS/18/C119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C119
Title:
Cable Communication: Landing Rights for the Cables of the Indo-European Telegraph Department in Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns various agreements — between the British and Persian Governments — relating to telegraphic communications between India and Europe via Persia. It outlines the landing rights that the Indo-European Telegraph Department has at Bushire and Jask. It also includes copies of a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1900
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

136. IOR/L/PS/18/B219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B219
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. III. The Arab Movement.’
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a secret memorandum, dated 1915; a report by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, which is an overview of the human, religious and political dimensions of the Arab population in the Middle East. The report is divided into four sections, based on the four groups of Arab people ident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

137. IOR/L/PS/18/B273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B273
Title:
Middle East Committee. Mesopotamia: British Engagements as to future Status
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a report by the Political Department, India Office, dated 30 January 1918, concerning British engagements as to the future status of Mesopotamia. It is divided into two sections containing extracts from various correspondence and sources. The first section concerns ple...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

138. IOR/L/PS/18/B299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B299
Title:
'B 299. Mesopotamia. Note on Demobilisation by Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.'
Scope & Content:
Note on demobilisation by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (enclosed in letter to the India Office, No 20517, dated 28 September 1918). The note gives details on the two areas that demobilisation would need to cover, namely the repatriation of the fighting force and the transfe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

4 folios

139. IOR/L/PS/18/B320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B320
Title:
The Use of Aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists of a note prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Officiating Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, concerning the use of aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The note consists of two parts: the first covers South-West Persia and the second Mesopotamia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

140. IOR/L/PS/18/B399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B399
Title:
Status of certain Groups of Islands in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
In response to Persian claims of authority over the islands, the document outlines the status of the following groups of Persian Gulf islands: Warba, Bubiyan, Maskan, Failakah [Jazīrat Faylakā], Auhah [Jazīrat ‘Awhah], Kubbar, Qaru, and Umm-el-Maradin, which lie off the coast of Koweit [Kuwait] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)