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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Emir of Mohammerah, c 1800-1936 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs: Matters Relating to the Anglo-Persian War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 16 dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure is also dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure comprises a despatch, dated 22 December 1856, from C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 14-21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 14-21
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 3 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 February 1860. The Enclosure is dated 25 November 1859. Received 6 March 1860. The Enclosure consists of despatches from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, to HBM's Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1860
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/59
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 4 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; proposals of Turkish Govt; status of Kowait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1911-1912. The correspondence concerns three broad topics: Anglo-Turkish negotiations proposals of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1912
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/132
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: situation. British assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the situation regarding British assurances to the Sheikh of Mohammerah. The volume includes a description of the Sheikh's perception that, despite his good behaviour towards the British he has not been afforded the support provided to other Arab sheikhs in the Gulf a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/169
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 2 Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; buoyage of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters, reports and memoranda concerning the lighting and buoyage of the Shatt al-Arab. Correspondence discusses the poor state of the buoys and need for repainting; a re-survey of the Shatt al-Arab in order the prevent the Germans from gaining influence. Also discussed is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/262
Title:
File 1247/1912 Pts 1-2 'KOWEIT & MOHAMMERAH ANGLO-TURKISH AGREEMENT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1896-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/332
Title:
File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memoranda, correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding railway constructions in Persia, focussing on the line planned between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad, Iran]. The subjects covered are: the leasi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
27 Nov 1912-14 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/482
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in southern Persia and in the territories of the Shatt al-Arab, during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of oilfields. The volume covers: The Arab movement in Mesopotamia. Possible despatch of troops to the Kārun river and to Ahwaz [A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1915-26 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/485, f 135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/485, f 135
Title:
Sketch Map shewing Tribal Districts between Arabistan and Bushire
Scope & Content:
The map shows the area between Arabistan and Bushire, indicating the regions inhabited by the following tribes: Lirawi, Hajat Daoud, Shabankareh, Zira, Borasju, Rudhilleh, Angali, Chahkutah, and Tangistan. These districts are categorised as 'in cooperation with British Authorities', 'in allian...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1915
Extent:
1 map