Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain
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Despatch from the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 28 August 1929. Printed in October 1929. Covering: a brief history of the development of British concern in the internal af...
A summary of British involvement at Aden and administrative arrangements in place there. The booklet begins with an introductory description of the geography of Aden and the surrounding region, followed by a summary of historical events leading up to and including the Cabinet Decision of 16 Dece...
A memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, describing the history of Bahrein [Bahrain] with a focus on the political status of the islands at various periods; the claims to sovereignty over them put forward by Persia at various dates since 1783; and the correspondence and discussions...
Government of Bahrain Administrative Report for the Years 1926-1937
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This volume is an administration report covering the years 1926 to 1937 (though in some subjects the report goes further back than 1926) and deals mainly with the activities of the Bahrain Government. It includes text, photographic images, graphs and tables. The report was based on annual report...
This file consists of a note written by Owen Tudor Burne, in which the author provides a historical summary of the administration of the British Mission at Teheran [Tehran], describing a number of occasions on which the Mission had been transferred, administratively and financially, between the F...
Seistan. Revenue Report and Notes of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I.
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The first volume of reports produced by the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906. The commission, under the direction of Colonel Arthur Henry M...
The volume consists of a report by Surgeon-Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh on his mission to Seistan [Sīstān] on ‘plague duty’ to investigate the closure of the Perso-Afghan-Baluch trade routes under the ‘mantle of plague’ from April to October 1897. The report is divided into five sectio...
Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I
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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...
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...
‘Supplementary Sheet to Tribal and Communication Map of Area No. 7 shewing Maqata’as’
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This map is one of three map sheets included in IOR/L/PS/20/C202/4. It depicts part of south-eastern Iraq, centred on the town of Amarah. The map shows the territorial boundaries of different tribal groups. The names and territories of the main tribal groups are shown in red, while the names a...
