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171. IOR/L/PS/18/C61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C61
Title:
Hashtadun dispute. Notes of Brigadier-General MacLean's interview with the Shah at Brighton.
Scope & Content:
This document describes an interview between Brigadier-General MacLean and the Shah of Persia [Iran] at Brighton in 1889. The discussion centres on whether Hashtadun [Hashtadan] belongs to Persia or Afghanistan. The division of old water canals between the countries is suggested as a compromise ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1889
Extent:

1 folio

172. IOR/L/PS/18/C66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C66
Title:
Seistan arbitration case
Scope & Content:
This document was written by Sir Owen Tudor Burne on 19 November 1872, and is divided into the following sections: Section 1 - Brief abstract of Persia and Afghanistan History as connected with Seistan [Sīstān], including our policy in reference to the district Section 2 - Geographical and Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1872
Extent:

6 folios

173. IOR/L/PS/18/C145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C145
Title:
Political Situation in Persia, the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan, and Aden
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided up into four sections and a conclusion. The first (folios 125-130) provides an update on the political situation in Persia, and considers how advantageous/disadvantageous it is to British interests, with specific updates on the following places: Isfanhan [Eşfahān], Fars...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1916
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

174. IOR/L/PS/20/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/10
Title:
The Illicit Trade in Arms and Ammunition Between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The file consists of notes and appendices providing a history of the arms trade up to 1908, prepared by C M Gibbon of the Persian Section of the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, Government of India. A preface is included by Wilfrid Malleson, Division of Chief of Genera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1908-Sep 1908
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

175. IOR/L/PS/20/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/27
Title:
Report on the preliminary survey of the route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line. By W King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Scope & Content:
Publication statement: Karachi: Government of India Telegraph Department, 1899. The report describes the 'Branch Section' (Ispahan to Ardistan), followed by the five 'Sections', and 'Unsuitable Routes', of the Central Persia Telegraph Line. For each section the report provides a description of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)

176. IOR/L/PS/20/228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/228
Title:
'Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia, 1874'
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked 'Strictly Confidential', is Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon. G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia. 1874. It was printed in London by George E Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1876....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:

1 volume (194 folios)

177. IOR/L/PS/20/253

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/253
Title:
Précis of correspondence, &c., relating to affairs in Central Asia, Biluchistan, Persia, &c. 1875-77. With appendices.
Scope & Content:
A compilation of correspondence, reports, memoranda, gazetteer extracts, dispatches and statistics, prepared by Trevor Chichele Plowden, the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department. Printed in Calcutta, by the Foreign Department Press, 1878. The volume contains...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:

1 volume (278 folios)

178. IOR/L/PS/20/289/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/A
Title:
‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’
Scope & Content:
Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

179. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1
Title:
‘A HISTORY OF PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This file is A History of Persia by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes (London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1915). The file consists of two volumes, containing a historical narrative of Persia [Iran], dating from around 6000 BCE to the signing of the Persian Constitution of 1906 CE. It c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (770 folios)

180. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 814

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 814
Title:
Persia and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2. It shows Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan in detail, as well as the bordering areas of the British Raj [British India], Russian Turkistan [Turkestan], Chinese Turkistan, Caucasia, and the Turkish [Ottoman] Empire. It portrays hy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
1 map sheet