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1. IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 514-539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 514-539
Title:
The Case of Mahomed Rahim Sheerazee, the Persian Consul in Bombay
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 153 of 1846, dated 30 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 7-15 December 1846. The enclosures relate to events following the decision by HM Supreme Court of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1846
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 484-495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 484-495
Title:
Measures for the Suppression of the Trade in Enslaved Persons
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1856, dated 12 August 1856. The enclosures are dated 6 July-8 August 1856. The enclosures comprise communications between Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/572/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
Scope & Content:
Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jul 1918-6 Apr 1922
Extent:

1 item (187 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/67
Title:
PZ 1372/33 'Guardianship of the heirs of the late Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the guardianship of the heirs of the late Haji Mustashir-ul-Mulk. The discussion in the volume relates to the appointment by the British Court in Persia of HM Consul, Shiraz, as guardian of the children'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-9 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1465
Title:
Coll 1/29 'Aden Protectorate: legal status of subjects of the Hadhramaut; reports on Hadramis in Mecca, 1936, by the British Legation, Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the India Office, the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, the Political Department of the Government of India, and the High Commissioner in Cairo, regarding the legal status of Hadramaut [Hadramawt] subjects; plus minutes regarding Saudi influence in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1924-13 May 1936
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2764
Title:
Coll 15/3(1) 'Egypt. Abolition of Capitulations in Montreux Conference and Convention 1937'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, letters, correspondence, memoranda, notes and Parliamentary questions relating to the 1937 Montreux Conference on the abolition of capitulations in Egypt. These capitulations had created extra-territorial jurisdiction for many foreign powers in Egypt, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1936-18 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 volume (606 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2765
Title:
Coll 15/3(1) (A) 'Actes de la Conférence des Capitulations Montreux, 12 Avril-8 Mai 1937: Compte Rendu des Séances plénières de la Conference et Procès Verbal des Débats de la Commission Générale et de la Commission du Règlement d'organisation judiciaries'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a printed publication in French, published in May 1937. By a letter, dated 16 January 1937, the Royal Egyptian Government invited countries to participate in a conference taking place in Montreux, to discuss the abolition of the capitulations in Egypt. Following a list of me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Apr 1937-31 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (145 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3476

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3476
Title:
Coll 28/72 ‘Persia. Telegraph stations at Jask; Question of Persian encroachments and realignment of boundary.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the British Legation in Tehran, including HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the Foreign Office, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Allsebrook Simon. The correspondence concerns questions over the extent of the conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jun 1932-7 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (108 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3941
Title:
Coll 30/201 ‘Persian Gulf. Judicial. Service of documents upon British subjects in Bahrein Islands.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the service of petitions of alimony and divorce upon British subjects in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file). The papers include correspondence, dated 1940, regarding an enquiry from the High Commissioner for Canada about the procedure in effecting s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1940-4 Sep 1947
Extent:

1 file (36 folios)