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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980 Place Seistan, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 373-482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 373-482
Title:
Affairs in Herat
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 3-33 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Herat, and its status after the withdrawal of Persian occupation at the end of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. Subjects covered i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1857-22 Jan 1859
Extent:
1 item (110 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453
Title:
Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1871-9 Dec 1871
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/176
Title:
File 1329/1910 'Persia: Imperial Bank (Seistan Branch)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports and accounts relating to a subsidy arranged for the Imperial Bank of Persia in May 1903. The subsidy was paid by the Government of India and related to the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Persia branch ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/326
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines. The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (405 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/725
Title:
File 5118/1917 ‘Persia: British Cordon on Eastern Frontier (Meshed-Seistan Telegraph Line)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers about the British cordon on the Eastern Frontier of Persia [Iran], from October 1917 to September 1920. The papers are comprised of correspondence, chiefly between the India Office, the Consul-General at Meshed [Mashhad], the Foreign Office, the Viceroy of India, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1917-20 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 volume (172 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/6
Title:
PZ 320/31 'Persia: closing of the Soviet Consulate at Seistan.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, printed correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the closure of the Soviet consulate at Seistan [Sīstān va Balūchestān]. The discussion in the volume relates to the impact of the closure on Soviet support for communists in India, the departure ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1930-5 Feb 1931
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3561
Title:
Coll 29/5 'Seistan: vice consulate appointments (Zabul)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns appointments at the Consulates in Seistan and Zabul. The file covers: appointment of G Fawsitt Taylor as Medical Officer and Vice Consul to Seistan, in 1931 appointment of T F Shepherd as member of the staff appointment of J J Beausang as Medical Officer and Vice Consul to Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1931-22 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1
Title:
Persia, Herat, and Seistan
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the state of diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia; it is the view of a number of British officials that the time is ripe to secure a privileged position for Britain at the expense of Russia. To this end it therefore discusses the pros and cons of ceding Herat, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1880
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios