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2871. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 4
Title:
‘Map showing possible Lines of Advance from the North, on Kain and Sistan.’
Scope & Content:
Map showing the possible lines of advance on the towns of Kain [Qā’en] and Sīstān in Persia [Iran], as surveyed by A Ashgar Ali of the Survey of India, and signed by Major Percy Molesworth Sykes, British Consul at Kerman. The map indicates: routes; terrain; mountain passes and gorges; the town o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 map

2872. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 5
Title:
‘Sketch Map of Southern Persia showing the main Trade Routes and the relative Positions of the Nomad Tribes.’
Scope & Content:
Map of Persia [Iran] printed in black, showing: coastlines; frontiers; river systems; principal towns; marshes; and deserts. The region’s main trade routes are printed as solid red lines. Names of the nomadic tribes of the region are also printed in red. Persia’s land frontiers are shaded green.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1900
Extent:
1 map

2873. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9
Title:
‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’
Scope & Content:
Report marked strictly confidential, prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, by the Assistant Quarter Master General, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Royal Engineers. The volume was published by the Government Central Branch P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:

1 volume (231 folios)

2874. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 12
Title:
‘Sarhang Hájji Ibrahim Khán, Commandant of the Bakhtiari Horse.’
Scope & Content:
One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sarhang (a rank equivalent to Colonel) Hajji Ibrahim Khán, Commandant of the Bakhtiari Horse. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
?1883
Extent:
1 photographic print

2875. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 63
Title:
‘Sartip Muhammed Hossein Khán, Bakhtiari.’
Scope & Content:
One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sartip (a Persian military rank equivalent to Brigadier General) Muhammed Hossein Khán. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
?1883
Extent:
1 photographic print

2876. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 83
Title:
‘Index to road reports.’
Scope & Content:
Map of south west Persia, showing coastlines, rivers, and the region’s principal towns and cities. Red lines between towns, which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4 and 4a, indicate road routes that are described in detail in part IV of the enclosing volume (ff 84-175).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

2877. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 89
Title:
‘Sketch of the Kárún River at Ahwaz showing the obstruction to the navigation, &c.’
Scope & Content:
Sketch map of the Karun River at Ahwáz [Ahvāz], showing obstructions to the river’s navigation, produced by Captain Henry Lake Wells of the Royal Engineers, in December 1881, with additions made by Major Mark Sever Bell of the Royal Engineers, on 28 March 1884. The map, with accompanying key, in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881-1884
Extent:

1 map

2878. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 96 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 96 1
Title:
‘Sketch plan of Shústar and vicinity.’
Scope & Content:
Sketch of Shústar [Shūshtar] showing the Karun river, canals, fort and citadel, bridges (including the Band-i-Kaisar [Band-e Kaisar]), and areas cultivated with poppies. The arrows on the sketch indicate the direction of downward slopes.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

2879. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 96 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 96 2
Title:
‘Sketch plan of Band-i-Gargar.’
Scope & Content:
Diagrammatic map of the Band-i-Gargar embankment, part of the Shūshtar historical hydraulic system, showing: the direction of the canal’s flow; water channels; the location of mills; clay and sandstone cliffs; the locations of Shūshtar, on one bank, and the village of Boleiti on the other.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

2880. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 229
Title:
‘Map of S. W. Persia’
Scope & Content:
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

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