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141. IOR/L/PS/18/C39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C39
Title:
'Memorandum on the route from Burujird to Dizful by Khoramabad '
Scope & Content:
The memorandum describes the road between Burujird [Borūjerd] and Dizfil [Dezfūl], via Khoramabad [Khorramābād]; the author is Walter Baring. The information provided is a summary of statements made by Albert Houtum-Schindler in a paper submitted to the Berlin Geographical Society. A number of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1882
Extent:

3 folios

142. IOR/L/PS/18/C199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C199
Title:
British Loan to Persia of £2,000,000 (August 1919).
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report from the Political Department, India Office. The report relates to the Anglo-Persian Agreement of August 1919, to which was attached an agreement for the British Government to grant Persia a loan of 2,000,000l sterling, at an interest rate of 7 per cent. The report...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

143. IOR/L/PS/18/B168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B168
Title:
Report of a Committee of Enquiry on the Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
A report of a committee of enquiry on the lighting and buoyage of the Persian Gulf, 1909. The report discusses the existing lighting facilities in the Gulf (at Kuwait and Fao) and the details of a proposed scheme to construct a comprehensive network of lights at the following locations: Muscat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

144. IOR/L/PS/18/B79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B79
Title:
Memoir on Part of Mesopotamia contained between Sheriat-el-Beytha on the Tigris to Tel Ibrahim, by Lieutenant J B Bewsher, Surveyor in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This file is a memoir that describes part of Mesopotamia [Iraq] between Sheriat-el-Beytha (ten miles north-west of Baghdad) and the large mound of Tel Ibrahim (nineteen miles north-east of Hillah). The memoir contains details of historical sites, agriculture and irrigation in the region. The m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

145. IOR/L/PS/18/B125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B125
Title:
‘Prevention of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf: question of increased facilities for passing under the British flag.’
Scope & Content:
Printed correspondence relating to the prevention of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, with particular reference to the persistence of the slave trade at Muscat under the French flag, and proposals for increasing facilities for vessels to sail under the British flag. The correspondence compr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1899-10 Oct 1899
Extent:

2 folios

146. IOR/L/PS/18/C44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C44
Title:
Memorandum on the Russo-Perso-Afghan Frontier.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum written by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, in which the author discusses a proposed delimitation of the Russo-Perso-Afghan frontier by the Russian Government. The author points out that, aside from the difficulties of delimiting such featureless terrain, any artifici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

147. IOR/L/PS/18/C137D

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C137D
Title:
'Meshed'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with the Russian bombardment of the Shrine of Imam Reza in March 1912 at Meshed [Mashhad], and the presence of Russian troops in Khorrassan. It also touches on the desire of the British Government to have the ex-Shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar removed from Persia. It al...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1912
Extent:
5 folios

148. IOR/L/PS/18/B297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B297
Title:
Policy in Arabia
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a note, dated 20 November 1918, by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel of the India Office concerning British policy in Arabia. The note discusses 'The Status of the King of the Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]' and 'The Status of Iraq', and largely focuses on British interes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

149. IOR/L/PS/18/C188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C188
Title:
The Persian Question.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note written by the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant. It concerns the future involvement of the Government of India in Persia. Grant suggests that the Government of India has the following options: to clear out of Persian entirely an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

150. IOR/L/PS/18/B141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B141
Title:
Persian Gulf. Turkish claims on the Arabian coast
Scope & Content:
Memorandum possibly prepared by C G Campbell, 22 January 1903. The document is a recent historical overview of Turkish claims to the Arabian (southern) coast of the Persian Gulf, with particular focus on Qatar (referred to as El Katr throughout), Odeid [al-‘Udaid], and the Trucial Coast. There ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1903
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)