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1. IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 257-275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 257-275
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 87 of 1847, dated 13 October 1847. The enclosure is dated 26 August 1847. The primary document is a despatch from Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1847
Extent:
1 item (20 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/40
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: Karun Irrigation Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memorandum, notes, and reports on the Karun irrigation scheme, including many diagrams of the construction and layout. The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and representatives of the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume (418 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/87
Title:
File 3131/1905 'Mesopotamia:- Irrigation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, a memorandum, notes and reports on a scheme devised by Sir William Willcocks for irrigation in Mesopotamia. It also includes a number of reports about the effect of the Baghdad railway both on relations with Persia and on the defence of India. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/749

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/749
Title:
File 3156/1918 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia Sir J. Hewett’s Mission’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, reports, and minutes. The correspondence is mainly about the mission of John Hewett’s [also spelled in the volume as Hewitt] to Mesopotamia. On behalf of the War Office, the mission is to examine and report to the Army Council...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1918-27 Nov 1919
Extent:

1 volume (134 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/750

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/750
Title:
File 3156/1918 Pt 2 ‘Mesopotamia – Administration; Public and Questions in Parliament (1919) Articles in “Times” – Sir G. Buchanan’s criticisms. Publication of Sir J. Hewett’s report as dementi [sic] Bagdad criticisms of Sir J. Hewett’s Report’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, Parliamentary notices and articles from The Times newspaper. The correspondence is related to the administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Sir John Hewett’s report on the topic. The volume contains two copies of Hewett’s report...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1919-18 Mar 1920
Extent:
1 volume (200 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/897A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897A
Title:
File 4330/1920 Revenue Secretariat Baghdad ‘Monthly Reports of Political Officers of the Occupied Territories. January 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of January 1920. It includes: Reports from divisional political officers for the following divisions: Arbil [Erbil] and Rawandu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (189 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/897B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897B
Title:
File 4330/1920 ‘Revenue Secretariat, Baghdad. MONTHY REPORTS OF POLITICAL OFFICERS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF IRAQ. for the month of February, 1920.’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of February 1920, forwarded by the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq], to the Under-Secretary of State for India. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (189 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/897C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897C
Title:
File 4330/1920 Revenue Secretariat Baghdad ‘Monthly Reports of Political Officers of the Occupied Territories. March 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of March 1920, forwarded by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, to the Under-Secretary of State for India. It includes: Reports fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (119 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2895
Title:
Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed visit of an Iraqi irrigation engineer to India, to see some of the major irrigation works which had been constructed there, and the areas which had been brought under cultivation and colonised through the irrigation works. The papers mostly con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1938-20 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4756
Title:
Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (468 folios)