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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Armed forces Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947

1. IOR/L/PS/10/579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: The proposed increase of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (491 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/590
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: SITUATION (JAN-APL 1916). Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the situation in Persia from January to April 1916. Topics discussed include: Finances of Bushire administration Germans at Kerman Insecure position of Farman Farma as Prime Minister. German movements a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/591
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 2 'Persia: SITUATION Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The file includes correspondence regarding the following issues: The disposal of Germans and Swedes now interned at Tehran The Russian advance from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/592
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The discussion in the volume includes the following topics: Decoration for the Persian Foreign Minister and Farman Farma for his military support of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/650
Title:
File 464/1917 Pts 1 & 3 'Persia Bushire Hinterland'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to military operations in the hinterland of Bushire [Bushehr] in Persia [Iran]. The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/650/1], and Part 3 [IOR/L/PS/10/650/2]. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1916-24 Oct 1917
Extent:

1 volume (192 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/309
Title:
PZ 6162/39 'Policy to be adopted during war time in regard to the employment of regular and irregular forces on the Frontier'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a policy to be adopted during war time in regard to the employment of regular and irregular forces on the North West Frontier Province in response to any hostile action directed at the British in tribal areas under their influence. The policy was proposed by the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1939-7 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C107
Title:
Persia - policy to be pursued towards. Minute by the Viceroy of 29 December 1871 with a note
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum and additional note by Lord Mayo, Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, concerning British policy in Persia. It expresses Lord Mayo's opinion on Anglo-Indian foreign policy such as building relations of friendship, the maintenance of peace, and oppo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1871
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C158
Title:
Memorandum by the Chief of Imperial General Staff and a Minute by Edmund George Barrow and John Evelyn Shuckburgh, on the Situation in Southern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns attacks made against the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles] by members of Persian tribes at Kazerun and Dashtistan [Dashtestan] (also spelled as 'Dasht-i-Arjun' and 'Dashtarjin' in the file), and the possibility of sending troops from Bushire. The file consists of a m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1916-27 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C165
Title:
Mesopotamia Administrative Council. Control of South Persian Rifles.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns control of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. The file consists of the following seven telegrams, which were submitted to the War Cabinet: Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain] to the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], 19 March 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1917-13 Jun 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C166
Title:
Telegrams Relating to the South Persia Rifles
Scope & Content:
This file concerns control of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. It consists of the following telegrams: Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain] to the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], 9 January 1917; Viceroy of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1917-6 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)