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41. IOR/L/PS/20/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/66
Title:
'Diary of a Tour in the Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia December 1906, by Lieutenant-Colonel Malleson Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff.'
Scope & Content:
The diary, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, comprises daily entries and accounts of his travels from 3 to 29 December 1906. The diary commences on his arrival at sea off Maskat [Muscat] before recounting the journey to Basra via Bushire and Koweit [Kuwait] and on to Baghdad, Bab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:

1 volume (23 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/20/256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/256
Title:
Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906
Scope & Content:
The first volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Contents: 'Chapter I. The catchment area of the Seistan Lake. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (246 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/20/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/236
Title:
A NOTE ON THE TRANSPORT OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PERSIA COMPILED IN THE DIVISION OF THE CHIEF OF THE STAFF.
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled A Note on the Transport of Southern and Eastern Persia compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, produced by the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India, and dated 1908. The volume contains information on the different methods of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/20/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/35
Title:
‘Report for the Army Council on Mesopotamia. By Sir John P Hewett, GCSI, KBE’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains an illustrated report, with maps, correspondence and statistical data included as appendices, for the Army Council on Mesopotamia [Iraq], prepared by Sir John Prescott Hewett for the War Office, dated 10 March 1919. The report focuses on: a) the administration and expenditure...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (53 folios, 5 maps)

45. IOR/L/PS/20/253

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/253
Title:
Précis of correspondence, &c., relating to affairs in Central Asia, Biluchistan, Persia, &c. 1875-77. With appendices.
Scope & Content:
A compilation of correspondence, reports, memoranda, gazetteer extracts, dispatches and statistics, prepared by Trevor Chichele Plowden, the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department. Printed in Calcutta, by the Foreign Department Press, 1878. The volume contains...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:

1 volume (278 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/20/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/22
Title:
Seistan. Irrigation Report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume II. Statements and Calculations.
Scope & Content:
The second volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906. The commission, under the directio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/20/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/61
Title:
'REPORT ON A TOUR IN TURKISH ARABIA AND KURDISTAN APRIL-MAY 1910 BY J. G. LORIMER, ESQ., C.I.E., I.C.S., British Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad.'
Scope & Content:
Tour report written by John Gordon Lorimer from notes taken during his journey from 18 April to 22 May 1910. The report comprises information on topographical matters. The report is divided into sections describing each day's journey, giving start and end destinations, time travelled and topogr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/20/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/10
Title:
The Illicit Trade in Arms and Ammunition Between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The file consists of notes and appendices providing a history of the arms trade up to 1908, prepared by C M Gibbon of the Persian Section of the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, Government of India. A preface is included by Wilfrid Malleson, Division of Chief of Genera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1908-Sep 1908
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/20/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/122
Title:
‘Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential notes of a journey made through Persia [Iran] from Shiraz to Jashk [Jāsk], via Fassa [Fasā], Dārāb, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Mīnāb, by John Richard Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The report was published by the Intelligence Branch, Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)

50. IOR/L/PS/20/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/133
Title:
Report by Mr G P Tate, Extra Assistant Superintendent, Survey of India, in charge of the survey detachment with the Seistan mission, 1903-05.
Scope & Content:
This file contains a report by Mr George Passman Tate, the Extra Assistant Superintendent for the Survey of India, about the Seistan [Sistan] Mission. Tate details the ways in which the fieldwork was undertaken, and difficulties that were encountered. He also provides notes on communications (roa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)