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1. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 189-226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 189-226
Title:
Persian Affairs and Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 14 dated 16 Feburary 1856. The enclosures are dated 15 December 1855-14 February 1856. The item comprises the following: 1) A copy of a desp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (38 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 227-242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 227-242
Title:
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Sind, Kelat and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 15 dated 16 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 14 January-4 Feburary 1856. The papers comprise two reports forwarded by Henry Bartle Edw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1856
Extent:

1 item (16 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/576

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 1-2 'THE WAR: ARAB BUREAU AT CAIRO. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'The War: Arab Bureau at Cairo. Intelligence Service for the Middle East'. Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/1] concerns the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, 1915-18 (folios 46-238). Part 2 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/2] concerns War Office propos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1167
Title:
Ext 6116/46(S) 'Secret Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries, nos 356-416, August 1946-November 1947'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a set of Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries published by the Foreign Office. The summaries are numbered, and begin from 356 at the back of the file, and end with number 416 at the front. The weekly reports contain military and political intelligence spanning all theatres o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1946-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (478 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B208
Title:
Note by the Aga Khan and M. A. Ali Baig on the situation in Egypt
Scope & Content:
The file contains the views of the Aga Khan (Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah), and M A Ali Baig on the political situation in Egypt, based on a series of interviews held during a visit to Ismailia [Al Ismā'īlīyah], Suez, Port Said [Būr Saʻīd], Tanta, Alexandria, and the camps of the Indian troops, from...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1915
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B216
Title:
British Policy in the Yemen
Scope & Content:
The file contains an introduction by Major-General Sir George John Younghusband, Political Resident, Aden, introducing two memoranda written by Lieutenant Harold Fenton Jacob, First Assistant Resident, Aden. They are addressed to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Political Department, i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Sep 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B251
Title:
Relations with Ibn Sa'ud: note prepared by Arab Bureau, Irak Section
Scope & Content:
This note was written by the Arab Bureau, Iraq Section, in Basra in January 1917. It reviews the rise of Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], his fight against Ibn Rashid and the role of Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Political Agent, Kuwait, in this confli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B267
Title:
Memorandum on Intellectual and Political Forces in the Ottoman Empire
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was prepared by the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department in January 1917 and aimed to give 'an inner view of the intellectual and political forces which are predominant in the Ottoman Empire.' It consists of four main sections: A. 'German influence in Turkey' (f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1917
Extent:

1 file (13 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B268
Title:
Employment of Japanese Troops in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum addressed to the War Cabinet by the Political Department of the India Office on the question of the employment of Japanese troops in Mesopotamia. It summarises the Government of India's views given in a telegram dated 21 November 1917, with military and politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1917-18 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B272
Title:
Middle East Committee. Note prepared for meeting of 12th January 1918. Sir M. Sykes's memorandum on the Palestine and West Arabian situation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a note, dated 10 January 1918, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh (Political Department, India Office) on a memorandum written by Sir Mark Sykes on the Palestine and West Arabian situation. The note was prepared for a meeting of the Middle East Committee. Shuckburgh comments o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)