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1. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/25
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 1 'Muscat Arbitration. (1904-08).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses a dispute between the British and French Government’s over the use of French flags on Muscat dhows and individuals dhow owners from Muscat claiming to be protégés of France owing to their vessels being registered as French. The two governments agreed in October 1904 for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1906
Extent:
1 volume (385 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/27
Title:
File 733/1904 Pts 3, 4, 5, and 6 'MUSCAT. COMMERCIAL TREATY. STATUS OF MUSCATIS. HOSPITAL.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises four parts discussing affairs in Muscat which are indirectly related to the Muscat Arbitration discussed in parts 1 and 2: part 3 discusses a possible revision of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Muscat, originally signed in 1892; p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:

1 volume (352 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/29
Title:
File 791/1904 Pt 4-5 'Orders in Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing Orders in Council: Part 4 concerns Orders in Council and documents on the deportation to India under Order in Council of British Indian subjects convicted in Siam, Zanzibar, Jeddah and Egypt. Part 5 concerns the Ottoman Order in Council 1910; and the app...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1884-15 Aug 1911
Extent:

1 volume (224 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/30
Title:
File 868/1904 Pt 1-2 'Consular'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing consular matters: Part 1 concerns exemptions of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal taxation; Part 2 concerns exemptions of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs Duties. The volume comprises two parts: 1 and 2. Each part inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/109
Title:
File 442/1907 'Persian Gulf: British and German shipping; German competition'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the issue of competition from German shipping, 1907-1911. Included are a number of reports with statistical tables: List of cargo shipped per SS Canadia from Antwerp (14 July) and Hamburg (16 July)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)