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Name British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, 1862-1971

1. IOR/L/MIL/7/10332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/10332
Title:
Collection 239/98 'Agreement with B.I.S.N. Co. for conveyance of Troops and Stores between India and Persian Gulf ports.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns agreements for the transport of troops and cargo between India and Basra and other Persian Gulf ports on British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN) ships. It contains correspondence relating to: A 1919 agreement between the Ministry of Shipping and BISN in exchange for the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1919-25 Aug 1921
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/10333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/10333
Title:
Collection 239/99 ‘Revision of contract for conveyances of troops and stores between India and the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the revision of contract for conveyances of troops and stores between India and the Persian Gulf. Correspondents include the Board of Trade, India Office, Government of India, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of War Transport. Topics covered include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 October 1921-29 April 1944
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 318-324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 318-324
Title:
The ‘Interference’ of the Persian Consul-General at Bombay in the Traffic of the British Indian Steam Navigation Company in Ports of the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Political Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 49 of 1871, dated 15 March 1871, containing enclosures dated 23 November 1870-15 February 1871. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the ‘interference’ of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1871
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/734, ff 124-156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/734, ff 124-156
Title:
Persian Gulf. Affairs of
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 52 of 31 July 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1867-31 Jul 1867
Extent:
1 item (33 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/83/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
Scope & Content:
Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is between the Foreign Office, India Office and Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1905-Jan 1912
Extent:
1 item (91 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/168
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; the B.I.S.N. Co's buoyage system taken over by Govt of India'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans, photographs, indentures and tables relating to the lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to the transfer of the responsibility for lighting and buoying from the Briti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1916
Extent:
1 volume (444 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: German Competition’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with growing German competition to British trade in the Persian Gulf, and discussions around possible responses from the British authorities to protect Britain's trade and geopolitical interests. In particular, it is concerned with the joint workings of the Hamburg-America ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 May 1912-1 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/483
Title:
PZ 934/41 'Persian Gulf Shipping.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the British Consul at Basra, HM Ambassador to Iraq, and the Minister of Shipping, regarding the monopoly over shipping in the Persian Gulf held by the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, and the consequent restrictive effects on other shipping...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1940-18 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4101
Title:
Coll 35/2 'Persia and Persian Gulf: steamer arrangements in the Persian Gulf; including arrangements for the carriage and delivery of consular and diplomatic mails to posts in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispatch of consular and diplomatic mails by steamer and air mail service to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers: Transmission of sealed bags, containing official correspondence, to consular officers in Persia [Iran] Negotiations with Persian Government for the transmis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1930-13 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (579 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C176
Title:
‘[Persia and Persian Gulf] Concessions (existing and prospective, in which the Political Department has been interested recently)’
Scope & Content:
This file contains handwritten (and in one case, typewritten) notes on a number of concessions relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf, in which the India Office's Political Department held an interest. The concessions are listed at the beginning of the file as follows: 1. Euphrates and Tigris n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)