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5761. IOR/L/PS/12/3787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3787
Title:
Coll 30/70 'Bahrain: Amendment of contracts of Capt Parke, Commandant of Police, & Mr Belgrave, Adviser to the Sheikh of Bahrain: leave of Mr Belgrave, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the terms of service of British officials working for the Government of Bahrain, principally Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; Belgrav...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1930-24 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (188 folios)

5762. IOR/L/PS/12/3822

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3822
Title:
Coll 30/103 'Basidu: Position of the inhabitants of Basidu in the event of evacuation by His Majesty's Government.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns discussions over the position of the inhabitants of Basidu [on the island of Qeshm], in the event of its evacuation by the British Government. Basidu was a former naval depot that had been under British control since [circa] 1820. However, in the opinion of the Law Officers, Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Oct 1933-29 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)

5763. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

5764. IOR/L/PS/12/4140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4140
Title:
Coll 35/31 'Bahrain: application for W/T amateur transmitting licence for employee of Bahrain Petroleum Company'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the application by a British subject in Bahrain for the issue of an amateur wireless transmitting license, and the allotment of a wireless call sign. The file contains a booklet 'A guide to Amateur Radio' (folios 40-123), by Radio Society of Great Britain. The file contains c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1937-9 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (123 folios)

5765. IOR/L/PS/18/B30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B30
Title:
Memorandum Regarding the Relations with the Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden, especially in Reference to the Amir of Zhali.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by the Assistant Political Resident at Aden, Major John Muir Hunter, suggesting proposals to formalise with treaties British relations with a number of tribes in the vicinity of Aden in order to limit the encroaching influence of the Turkish Porte. He also suggests pensioning...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1885
Extent:

2 folios

5766. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1
Title:
No. 1. Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Collection of documents signed on July 29, 1913.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a collection of documents signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) on 29 July 1913. It contains the following: a convention concerning the establishment of a commission to improve the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jul 1913
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

5767. IOR/L/PS/18/B477

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B477
Title:
Agreement for the exploitation of sulphur in Kuwait [between] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with an agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited, which relates to the exploitation of sulphur in Kuwait agreed between the Shaik of Kuwait and the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited. This agreement outlines the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1940
Extent:

1 file (2 foilos)

5768. IOR/L/PS/18/C77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C77
Title:
'Memo by Capt O St John R. E. on the Persian Frontier East of the Caspian of 15 May 1874'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — dated 15 May 1874 — describes the Persian frontier east of the Caspian Sea; this includes the upper valley of the River Atrak [Atrek], the districts of Derehgaz [Dargaz], and Kalet-i-Nadiri [Kalāt-e Nāderī]. The author is Captain Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John, and the memora...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 June 1873-15 May 1874
Extent:

1 file (22 folios)

5769. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277
Title:
Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5770. IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 344-352

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 344-352
Title:
Letter from Major Rawlinson at Candahar to George William Anderson, Acting Governor of Bombay
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Major J[?] C [most likely Henry Creswicke] Rawlinson at Candahar [Kandahar] to George William Anderson, acting Governor of Bombay, dated 25 May 1841, enclosed in a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby, to the Chairman, received vi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1841-2 Aug 1841
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

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