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1. IOR/L/PS/9/68/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/128
Title:
Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
A letter, numbered 2, from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, of 21 March 1812, which was received on 8 August 1812. The letter concerns an order by Shah of Persia, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, for 30,0...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1812
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/70/153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/153
Title:
Copy of Dispatch No. 22 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Scope & Content:
Copy of dispatch No. 22 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 5 October 1826. In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir details his audience ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1826
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/70/155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/155
Title:
Copy of Dispatch No. 24 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Scope & Content:
Copy of dispatch No. 24 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 12 October 1826. The letter details proceedings at Tabreez following the defea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1826
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/71/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/43
Title:
‘Letter from H R Highness Abbas Meerza to Colonel Macdonald dated on the evening of Wednesday the 4th of Suffr’
Scope & Content:
Translation of a letter from Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated 4 Ṣafar [AH 1243] [27 August 1827]. Abbas Meerza details the recent Persian victory over Russian troops nea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/690

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/690
Title:
File 2834/1917 Pt 1 'PERSIA: SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES STATUS &c'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the South Persia Rifles, including its organisation, costs, control, role and status. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department, Finance Department, and Army Department; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1917-4 Jan 1919
Extent:
1 volume (402 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/691

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/691
Title:
File 2834/1917 Pt 2 'SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to expenditure on the South Persia Rifles and its dissolution in 1921. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department (later Foreign and Political Department), and Finance Departm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1919-11 Oct 1923
Extent:
1 volume (435 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/692/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/692/2
Title:
File 2834/1917 Pt 4, 'South Persia Rifles: - General correspondence regarding disbandment. Disposal of arms, ammunition, stores etc.'
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the disbandment of the South Persia Rifles, including attempts (in the opinion of the India Office) of the Foreign Office and HM Minister in Tehran to prolong its existence, and the disposal of arms, ammunition, equipment and medical stores. The principal correspondents are...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1921-3 Mar 1922
Extent:
1 item (184 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)