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

21. 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

22. IOR/L/PS/18/C67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C67
Title:
Seistan and Mekran arbitration
Scope & Content:
This document opens by outlining the history of the boundaries between Persia and Seistan [Sīstān] and Persia and Mekran [Makran]. It goes on to discuss the involvement of the British with the dispute during the middle of the nineteenth century, and particularly focuses on the process of British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:

5 folios

23. IOR/L/PS/18/C110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C110
Title:
'Question of a Loan to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of a number of notes authored by the following: Sir Hugh Barnes, Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, Sir John Edge, and Sir William Lee-Warner; all members of the Council of India. The notes discuss whether or not Britain should advance a further loan to Persia, and what concessions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1905-17 Jan 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/18/C113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C113
Title:
'Memorandum on the Note of the Persian Government, dated 22nd February 1906, embodying their objections to the Seistan Water Award.'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the Seistan Water Award [Sīstān] arbitrated by Britain between Persia and Afghanistan; the award outlines the proportion of water from the River Helmond [Helmand] to be allotted to irrigation on both sides of the river. It is authored by Arthur Henry McMahon — the British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1906
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/18/C122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C122
Title:
'Memorandum on Persian Railways'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the development of proposals for railways in Persia between 1872 and 1911. This includes discussion of the potential advantages/disadvantages (both commercial and political) for the British in the construction of railways in Southern Persia, and the potential threat posed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Jun 1911
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/18/C150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C150
Title:
Telegraph Lines in Eastern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, which is attributed to Hermann Anderson Haines, Secretary, Public Works Department, and which provides a brief account of a number of agreements reached between the Government of India and the Persian Government (and between the Government of India and HM Treasury...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/18/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C152
Title:
Quetta-Seistan Railway
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report by the Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain], which is addressed to the Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith]. The report concerns a proposal, made by the Commander-in-Chief in India [Sir Beauchamp Duff], to extend the Quetta–Nushki railway to S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1916-4 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/18/C155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C155
Title:
Memorandum. Regarding our future relations with Persia, with special reference to the extension and maintenance of British influence, and to the system of British Consular representation in Southern Persia.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor, concerns the new subdivision of Persia into two spheres of influence – Russian and British – with the present neutral zone falling into the British sphere. The memorandum considers what system of Consular or other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/18/C159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C159
Title:
Memorandum on the Financial Obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Governments respectively in relation to Telegraph Lines in Persia.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, which is attributed to the Indo-European Telegraph Department, provides details of the financial obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Governments respectively in relation to the following telegraph lines: the line from Gwadur to Jask, the Central Persia line, the Henja...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1916
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/18/C179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C179
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Proposed extension of Quetta-Nushki-Dalbandin railway.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the Government of India's proposed extension of the Quetta-Nushki-Dalbandin railway westwards to Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh]. It consists of the following: five telegrams between the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger] and the Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Mon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1917-18 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)