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51. IOR/L/PS/18/B485

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B485
Title:
Memorandum on Bahrein
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, produced by the Foreign Office, dated 13 Jan 1947, deals with the history of Bahrein [Bahrain] from the point of view of the political status of the islands at various periods and dates since 1783, and contains copies of related correspondence and discussions. The princi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1947
Extent:

1 file (31 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/18/C120c

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C120c
Title:
'Persian Government Loans'
Scope & Content:
This memorandum is a continuation of a previous memorandum dated 27 November 1912 (see IOR/L/PS/18/C120b). The memorandum provides a summary of two significant loans made to Persia in 1913: a joint Anglo-Russian Advance of £400,000, and an Anglo-Indian advance of £100,000 for the purpose of set...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/18/C7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C7
Title:
Memorandum relative to the Appointment of British Officers to organize the Persian Army.
Scope & Content:
Printed Confidential memorandum, headed 'Printed for the use of the Foreign Office', and signed by Alfred S Green, Foreign Office. The memorandum charts the history of the issue of the appointment of British officers to organise the Persian Army from the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 to the year 187...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1874
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/18/C137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C137
Title:
Memoranda on Persia: (a) Gendarmerie, (b) [Anglo-Persian] Loan, (c) Shiraz, (d) Meshed [Mashhad]
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following memoranda: C137A 'Gendarmerie', f 40; C137B 'Loan', ff 41-42; C137C 'Shiraz', ff 43-46; C137D 'Meshed', ff 47-51. The memoranda are written by Sir Arthur Hirtzel.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1913
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/18/C133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C133
Title:
Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — signed by Lieutenant-General Percy Lake, Chief of the Indian General Staff — considers whether Britain should accept Russian demands that the proposed Trans-Persian Railway should be routed via Kerman. It examines the potential strategic advantages to Russia, the consequent pote...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1913
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/18/B304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B304
Title:
British Desiderata in Regard to the Baghdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This confidential memorandum, signed R V, concerns Britain's policy with regards to the Baghdad Railway following the occupation of the Mesopotamia. The memorandum details two variant policies: (1) regarding the Railway not as private property, but as a Turkish State railway, and that all its ass...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918?
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/18/C88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C88
Title:
The Trade in Arms with the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum written by William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, it concerns the arms trade in the Persian Gulf from 1881-98. The following topics are covered: Persian prohibition of the trade in arms and ammunition with Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1898
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/18/B187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B187
Title:
Memorandum on the Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This file contains two memorandums concerning lighting and buoyage in the Persian Gulf by J E Ferard, the details of which are as follows: 1) B. 187. Memorandum on Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf (folios 1-4). This memorandum has four appendices (folios 5-7): I) Extract from Report ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1911
Extent:

1 volume (10 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/18/B285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B285
Title:
The Baghdad Railway Negotiations
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of an article reprinted for private circulation from the The Quarterly Review of October 1917 concerning the Baghdad Railway negotiations. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of railway interests in Turkey and seek to focus the situation in wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1917
Extent:

16 folios, including 1 map

60. IOR/L/PS/18/B306f

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B306f
Title:
The Future of Constantinople
Scope & Content:
The file contains the observations of Edwin Samuel Montagu (Secretary of State for India) on a previous memorandum by Lord Curzon on the future of Constantinople. It covers the question of Indian Mohammedan opinion, and the lack of Muslim representation of India in the Councils of the Empire; and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)