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371. IOR/L/PS/10/416/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/416/2
Title:
File 4045/1913 'Pt 2 Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
Continuation of correspondence and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. The file contains: a report on the interdepartmental conference on the Trans-Persian Railway, held at the Foreig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1916
Extent:

1 item (76 folios)

372. IOR/L/PS/12/2973A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2973A
Title:
Coll 20/16(2) 'Muscat: Diaries, News and Intelligence Summaries'
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly intelligence summaries sent by the Political Agent, Muscat, to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and distributed from there to various other British and Indian Government offices. The reports cover various subjects, each given their own sub-heading, such as British interes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1946-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

373. IOR/L/PS/12/3545

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3545
Title:
Coll 28/129(2) ‘PERSIA; OIL; Press Extracts.’
Scope & Content:
Newspaper cuttings and extracts from numerous newspapers, reporting on events in Persia [Iran] in late 1944, and relating to the Soviet Union’s efforts to pressurise the Iranian Government into giving it an oil concession in northern Iran. The articles, the majority of which were published in ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1944-13 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

374. IOR/L/PS/12/3847

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3847
Title:
Coll 30/118 'Gypsum deposits in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the potential commercial exploitation by British firms of deposits of gypsum in the Persian Gulf. Gypsum was used as a cementing material and for the manufacture of plaster board. The main deposits were along the coast of Iran (referred to throughout as Persia), but the substan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1935-31 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

375. IOR/L/PS/5/273, ff 436-446

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/273, ff 436-446
Title:
Affairs of Bahrein and Nejd
Scope & Content:
Political Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 110 of 1873, dated 7 July 1873, containing enclosures dated from December 1872 to 11 June 1873. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence and reports concerning political affai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1873
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

376. IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 277-278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 277-278
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1854, dated 28 February 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 25 February 1854 but is missing. According to the abstract of co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1854
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

377. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 470-472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 470-472
Title:
Kabul Affairs
Scope & Content:
Correspondence consists of a secret letter with a treaty concluded with Ameer Dost Mahomed [Dōst Moḥammad Khān Bārakzay], Khan of Cabool [Kābul], in connection with telegraphic matters.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1855-2 Apr 1855
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

378. IOR/L/PS/7/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/14
Title:
'LETTERS FROM INDIA WITH INDEX, MAY TO JULY 1877' Vol 14
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of Political and Secret Letters from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dating from May-July 1877, usually followed by enclosures. The enclosures mostly consist of copies of correspondence, and the items sometimes include abstra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 volume (1061 folios)

379. IOR/L/PS/9/76/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/177
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Two papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 30 August 1801. The papers appraise specimens of indigo brought to Bagdad by Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], and suggest trade strategies. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
30 Aug 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

380. IOR/L/PS/9/76/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/236
Title:
Intercepted Letter from Caboul
Scope & Content:
A translation of an intercepted letter from a French author in Caboul [Kabul] to a correspondent in Spanish Biscay, dated 8 March 1802. The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a time of civil war, describes his situation in Caboul, and expresses his hop...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

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