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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Territorial rights

1. IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 5A-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 5A-71
Title:
Treaty with the Ameers of Sind; 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 25 May 1821. The enclosures are dated 20 December 1820-12 May 1821. (Attached to folio 5 is a note, f 5a, stating that the ‘Enclosure in Bombay Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1821
Extent:
1 item (68 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 112-145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 112-145
Title:
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 9 November 1822. The enclosures are dated 6 July-1 November 1822. The enclosure comprises correspondence between Captain William Bruce, Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1822
Extent:
1 item (34 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 162-381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 162-381
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay's Secret Department to the East India Company's Secret Committee, Number 7 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 26 May 1840 to 30 January 1841, and relate to the Persian Gulf. The enc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1841
Extent:
1 item (220 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38
Title:
Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures
Scope & Content:
This item consists of two translated copies of a letter from the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], Saeed Seyed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], also spelled Syeed Saeed Bin Sooltan in this item] to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1 May 1841, with enclos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 17 Jun 1841
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/127
Title:
File 161/1908 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the disputed concession for the mining of red oxide on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá]. The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy. The pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Dec 1907-3 Jun 1908
Extent:
1 volume (377 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/114
Title:
PZ 4718/1934 ‘Historical Memorandum on Bahrein.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of an India Office Historical Memorandum on Bahrein [Bahrain] by John Gilbert Laithwaite, dated 14 July 1924. The memorandum is primarily concerned with the history of Bahrein from the point of view of the political status of the islands, and in particular with the claims to so...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/1150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1150
Title:
Ext 4196/46 'Violation of Persian territory by RAF plane carrying a Persian subject on a personal visit to Jiwani'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the unauthorised entry of Persian [Iranian] territory by an Royal Air Force (RAF) plane. The main correspondents are as follows; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident; the Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan; HM Ambassador to Iran and the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1946-1 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2883
Title:
Coll 17/22(1) ‘Iraq: Iraq-Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to alleged incidents occurring on or near the border between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit). It mostly concerns alleged incidents of Iraqi police in armed cars making incursions into Kuwait territory, and alleged incidents of violation of Kuwaiti territorial waters by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1934-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (585 folios)