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1. IOR/L/PS/12/2101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2101
Title:
Coll 6/35 'Hejaz-Nejd. Ownership of property by foreigners.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the ownership of property in the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) by foreigners. The early correspondence in the file (1930-1931) relates to the estates of deceased British Indian citizens (and one Chinese national). The remainder of the file's correspondence is chiefly concerned ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1930-17 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (128 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2105
Title:
Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, relates to the position and national status of British subjects and protected persons residing in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence includes discussion of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1931-13 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2156
Title:
Coll 6/83 'Saudi Arabia: Exemption of Saudi nationals from Koshan tax.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents the British response to a recent Saudi royal command exempting Saudi nationals from paying a tax known as koshan (a tax levied on journeys from Jedda to Mecca or Medina) during the off-season, i.e. the four-month period of the year when pilgrims are not travelling to or retur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1937-12 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3428
Title:
Coll 28/31 ‘Persia. Judicial; Law relating to entry & residence of foreigners’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Persian Government’s introduction of new legislation, under which foreigners entering or resident in Persia [Iran] had to notify their presence in the country with the Persian authorities. Included in the file are copies and extracts of the new leg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Urdu
Date Range:
30 May 1931-13 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3429
Title:
Coll 28/32 ‘Persia; Foreigners in; Expropriation by Persian municipalities of property of foreigners.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the expropriation of property belonging to foreigners in Persia [Iran] by the Persian Government. The papers chiefly concern a set of silk cocoon drying sheds and storage facilities belonging to a Greek subject in Resht [Rasht], which were demolished by the town’s munic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1931-17 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3452

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3452
Title:
Coll 28/47 ‘Persia. Judicial. Obligation of foreign subjects to deposit security for costs in law suits.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a law passed by the Persian Government in 1929 that obliged foreign subjects in Persia [Iran] to deposit security for costs in law suits brought before the ’Adliyeh (Courts of the Persian Ministry of Justice). The correspondence, chiefly exchanged between HM’s Envoy Ext...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Oct 1929-20 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3455

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3455
Title:
Coll 28/50 ‘Persia. Foreigners in Persia. Foreigners, other than British subjects.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the presence of non-British foreigners in Persia [Iran], usually reported by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Horace James Seymour. The papers include: a memorandum dated 1929 written by Alan Cha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1929-14 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3466
Title:
Coll 28/60(1) ‘Persia. Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, and British Consular Representatives, etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the ill-treatment of foreigners (specifically British or British Indian subjects) in Persia [Iran] at the hand of the Persian authorities. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Robert H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1931-12 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 volume (470 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3467

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3467
Title:
Coll 28/60(2) ‘Persia; Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, British Consular Representatives, etc.,’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers concerning the ill-treatment of British subjects in Persia [Iran] by the Persian authorities. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/60(1) ‘Persia. Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, and British Consular Representat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
5 Jan 1938-14 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (302 folios)