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

791. IOR/L/PS/20/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/202
Title:
Notes of a journey through Kurdistan in the winter of 1881-82.
Scope & Content:
By Montagu Gilbert Gerard, Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Central India Horse, published in Calcutta by the Quarter Master General's Department. The notes consist of diary entries for the period 15 November 1881 to 16 April 1882, documenting each stage of Captain Gerard's journey th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

792. IOR/L/PS/20/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/223
Title:
Who's who in Persia. Calcutta: General Staff, India, 1916
Scope & Content:
The volume contains brief biographical statements on individuals active in Persia [Iran], often including comments on their character, reputation, political affiliations, language skills, and attitudes towards European and regional powers. It also contains a number of genealogical tables, and in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1923
Extent:

1 volume (254 folios)

793. IOR/L/PS/20/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/227
Title:
‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

794. 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)

795. IOR/L/PS/20/231B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231B
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled ‘Who’s Who in Persia’, and is a British intelligence report, compiled in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and subsequently reprinted with corrections in 1918. The report was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, based in Calcutta [Kolkat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1927
Extent:

1 volume (145 folios)

796. IOR/L/PS/20/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/236
Title:
A NOTE ON THE TRANSPORT OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PERSIA COMPILED IN THE DIVISION OF THE CHIEF OF THE STAFF.
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled A Note on the Transport of Southern and Eastern Persia compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, produced by the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India, and dated 1908. The volume contains information on the different methods of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

797. IOR/L/PS/20/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/237
Title:
'CORRECTIONS TO MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA, 1911'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of corrections to the Military Report on Persia (1911). This volume was produced in 1914 (1st series) by the General Staff, India. It contains corrections for sections on the country's history; geography; resources; army; naval forces; places of strategic importance and mili...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (53 folios)

798. IOR/L/PS/20/241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/241
Title:
‘CORRECTIONS TO ROUTES IN PERSIA, Volume I.’
Scope & Content:
Corrections to Volume I (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/20/C101/1) of a series of official publications on routes in Persia [Iran] produced by the General Staff, India and printed at the Government Monotype Press in Simla [Shimla] in 1914. The corrections concern routes Nos. 1, 3, 33, 35, 38, 39, 47, 4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 volume (45 folios)

799. IOR/L/PS/20/249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/249
Title:
A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of copies of a series of agreements, engagements, and conventions concerning Britain and a number of related parties regarding the construction and/or extension of telegraph lines in Turkey, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran [Makran Coast] between 1853 and 1916. Related...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

800. IOR/L/PS/20/250

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/250
Title:
Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises annual reports and administration reports, submitted by Political Officers, for the following divisions in occupied Mesopotamia [Iraq]: Samara; Ba'qubah; Khaniqin [Khānaīqn]; Samawah; Shamiyah [Shāmīyah]; Hillah; Dulaim [Anbar]; Basrah; Qurnah; 'Amarah [Al 'Amārah]; Kut; Nas...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (231 folios)