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1. IOR/L/PS/20/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
Title:
Personalities, Arabia
Scope & Content:
The volume is Personalities, Arabia (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917). The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (185 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C151
Title:
'TRIBES OF THE TIGRIS'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Tribes of the Tigris, compiled by the Basrah [Basra] Branch of the Arab Bureau, Cairo Intelligence Department. The publication is divided into sections covering the Al Azairij [Āl Azayrij], Ālbu Darraj [al-Bū Darrāj], Bait Haddād [Bayt al-Ḥaddād], Ālbu Muhammad ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (18 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/C143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C143
Title:
‘PERSONALITIES - ‘IRAQ’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Personalities, ‘Iraq, and is a British intelligence report, compiled around 1917 by the Arab Bureau, Basrah [Basra] Branch, on prominent individuals in Iraq at that time (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department established in 1916). The report wa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1917
Extent:

1 volume (51 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C248D

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C248D
Title:
Précis of correspondence regarding Trucial Chiefs, 1854-1905
Scope & Content:
The volume is a précis on the rulers and tribes of the Trucial Coast (now the United Arab Emirates). It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and printed in Calcutta [Kolkata] at the Government of India Central Printing Office, 1906. The volume begins (folio 4) with a short preface, written by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (51 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C202/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C202/3
Title:
‘MILITARY REPORT ON IRAQ (Area 6) LOWER EUPHRATES’
Scope & Content:
A volume in a series of official publications entitled ‘Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq).’, compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. This volume covers an area referred to as ‘Area 6: Lower Euphrates’. This area contains the lower section of the Euphrates River, running nort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1927
Extent:
1 volume (223 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C57
Title:
'Oman. Map of and Reports on by Major Ross'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of the following: memorandum on tribal divisions in the Principality of Oman to accompany table of tribes, by Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent at Muscat (folios 2-3); table entitled 'Principal Tribes of Oman', signed by Ross (folio 4). The table is divided between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C152
Title:
'TRIBES ROUND THE JUNCTION OF THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Tribes Round the Junction of the Euphrates and the Tigris compiled by the Basrah [Basra] Branch of the Arab Bureau, Cairo Intelligence Department. The publication consists of: an overview of the political situation in the area; notes on the Bani Mansūr [Banū Man...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (15 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C202/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C202/4
Title:
‘MILITARY REPORT ON MESOPOTAMIA. (Iraq.) Area 7 (TIGRIS). (Provisional.)’
Scope & Content:
A volume in a series of official publications entitled ‘Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq).’, compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. This volume covers an area referred to as ‘Area 7: Tigris’. This area contains the lower section of the Tigris River, running north from Bagh-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:

1 volume (101 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/C248C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C248C
Title:
Précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853
Scope & Content:
A précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853 prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and published by Government of India Central Printing Office, Calcutta in 1906. The précis is divided up into eight sections, as follows: Part I: British Envoys to Persia and from...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (172 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2
Title:
‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS, AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART IV. THE PEOPLE OF SEISTAN’
Scope & Content:
Content Warning: This volume reflects commonly held views and prejudices of the era in which it was created. Such views and prejudices may now cause offence and upset. ‘SEISTAN [Sistan]. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART IV. THE PEOPLE OF ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)