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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Persia, Asia

661. IOR/L/PS/12/3486

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3486
Title:
Coll 28/82 ‘Persia; Perso-Baluchistan Frontier; Tribal disturbances’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to social unrest and violence in the border region between Persia [Iran] and western Baluchistan (located in present-day Pakistan), chiefly arising from the resistance offered by the Baluchi tribes to Persia’s occupation of western Baluchistan in 1928. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1932-23 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (151 folios)

662. IOR/L/PS/12/3487

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3487
Title:
Coll 28/83 ‘Persia; Persian Nationality Law. Position of British subjects & British protected persons resident in Charbar.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers concerning the status of Indians (as British subjects, also referred to in the file as ‘khojas’) living in Charbar [Chābahār], Persia [Iran], who have had Persian nationality imposed upon them by a nationality law ratified by the Persian Government. The f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1934-1 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (143 folios)

663. IOR/L/PS/12/3488

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3488
Title:
Coll 28/84 ‘Iran. Changes in Iranian place names.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to the Persian Government’s decision in 1935 to change the name of the country from Persia to Iran, and of the changes throughout the 1930s to the names of numerous provinces, towns and cities across the country. The papers include: translated copies of memoran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
12 Feb 1931-22 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)

664. IOR/L/PS/12/3489

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3489
Title:
Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning diplomatic relations between the British and Persian Governments over the concession and operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (from 1935, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited), referred to as APOC hereafter. The file includes: correspondence dated 1933 to 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Dec 1934-21 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (187 folios)

665. IOR/L/PS/12/3490A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3490A
Title:
Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to strikes and social unrest amongst workers on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s (AIOC) oilfields in southern Iran (frequently referred to as Persia throughout the file), and the AIOC refinery at Abadan. The file’s principal correspondents include: the British Ambassador at Tehran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1946-28 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (555 folios)

666. IOR/L/PS/12/3491A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3491A
Title:
Coll 28/85S (2) ‘Persia; Abadan situation 1946; Policy to be pursued by H.M.G. (Recommendations & General Appreciation).’
Scope & Content:
Secret papers and correspondence concerning the British Government’s response to the potential threat of Soviet Communist penetration in Persia [Iran] and a perceived increase in influence of the Tudeh Party within the Persian Government. The political crisis was triggered by events at the Anglo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1946-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

667. IOR/L/PS/12/3493A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3493A
Title:
Coll 28/87 ‘Persia; Railways; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway. Road Communications between Persia & India’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the railway line running from Duzdap [Zahedan] via Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] in Iran, across the border to Nok Kundi in India (now Pakistan). The first section of the file contains papers dated December 1934 to November 1941 (ff 111-184), chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1935-31 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

668. IOR/L/PS/12/3494

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3494
Title:
Coll 28/88 ‘Persia; Persian diplomatic and consular representation abroad: general question’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the British Legation in Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. The first letter, dated 29 December 1934, refers to reports in the Persian press of the termination of appointments of all honorary Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1935-3 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

669. IOR/L/PS/12/3497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3497
Title:
Coll 28/91 ‘Persia. Iran-Baluchistan Frontier; Violation of the frontier by British levies and Iranians’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, papers and maps relating to territorial infringements by British and Persian subjects (levies, troops, customs officials) across the border dividing Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan (part of present-day Pakistan). Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the British Legat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1930-19 Jul 1939
Extent:
1 file (272 folios)

670. IOR/L/PS/12/3503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3503
Title:
Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), and received by the India Office via the Foreign Office. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover she...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (401 folios)