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1. IOR/L/PS/12/2183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2183
Title:
Coll 7/15 'North West Frontier, Baluchistan: fighting strength and armaments of tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of statements showing the fighting strengths and armaments of tribes of the North-West Frontier Province [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] and Baluchistan [Balochistān], which were forwarded to the India Office by the Governor General in Baluchistan. The coverage is as follows: 1921-1925...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1924-31 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2221
Title:
Coll 7/50 'Supply of war material to Burma'
Scope & Content:
Copy telegram sent by HM Legation Rangoon [Yangon] to HM High Commissioner, New Delhi, regarding a meeting with the Burmese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and requests for military equipment to deal with possible communist insurrections.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1948-10 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2211
Title:
Coll 7/41 'Disposal of arms and ammunition stored in HM Consulates abroad'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the disposal of small arms and ammunition from the Consulate-General at Addis Ababa [Ādīs Ābeba]. The correspondents are the Foreign Office, the War Office, and the Acting Consul-General (Alexander Knox Helm). A list of the arms and ammunition can be found at folios 16-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1937-28 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2193
Title:
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2189
Title:
Coll 7/21 'Persian Gulf: Arms Traffic Proclamation and Notification of 1898, by the rulers of Muscat, Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait]'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and British concerns over the rights of Britain and Persia [Iran] to search ships and dhows of the Trucial Coast states within territorial waters. The file opens with a communication from the Political Resident in the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-31 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2175
Title:
Coll 7/6 'Tibet: supply of arms from British sources'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the supply of arms, ammunition and training by the British to the Tibetan Government. The details of the 1921 agreement between Britain and Tibet, the quantity of munitions to be supplied, and the intended use of the arms (for internal policing or exter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1931-19 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (320 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2172
Title:
Coll 7/3 'Afghanistan: supply of arms by Italian Government'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the purchase by the Afghan Government of arms and ammunition from Italy. The file contains correspondence with the Afghan Legations in Rome and London, and the Afghan Foreign Ministry, plus correspondence between the India Office Political Department, the Government of India's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1 Jun 1931-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2180
Title:
Coll 7/11 'Aden Protectorate: treatment of applications to export arms to-'
Scope & Content:
The file opens with a communication received from the HM Consulate-General at Batavia [Jakarta], informing the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) of formal approaches made to the Consulate to export arms and ammunition from Java [Indonesia] to Mokalla [Mukalla]. The communication encloses ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1932-28 Apr 1932
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2212
Title:
Coll 7/42 'Persian Gulf: arms smuggling from Koweit [Kuwait] into Iraq'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding allegations made by the Iraqi authorities that arms and ammunition are being smuggled into Iraq from Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are: HM Ambassador at Baghdad (Archibald Clark Kerr, later Maurice Peterson); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1936-23 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2191
Title:
Coll 7/23 'Afghanistan: sale of 5000 rifles with 3 million rounds of ammunition to the Afghan Government by the Government of India, 1935'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and minutes regarding requests by the Afghan Government for arms, ammunition and aircraft to be supplied by either the British or Indian Governments. The material predominantly consists of telegrams sent to the India Office by HM Minister at Kabul (William Kerr F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1934-13 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)