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6601. IOR/L/PS/20/E90/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E90/2
Title:
'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (July-August, 1928)'
Scope & Content:
This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in January 1929, is a continuation of the April-June 1928 account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the second part of his third mission (July-August 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1929
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)

6602. IOR/L/PS/20/E96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E96
Title:
A précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan. By Lt A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This volume was published by the Superintendent Government Printing in Calcutta in 1912 and marked as very confidential. The first part of the volume concerns the Relations of the British Government with the tribes and shaikhs of Arabistan and included list of officials in Arabistan (folio 6) and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

6603. IOR/L/PS/20/G3/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/G3/12
Title:
‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries [...] Vol XI containing the treaties, & c., relating to Aden and the south western coast of Arabia, the Arab principalities in the Persian Gulf, Muscat (Oman), Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Province’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a fifth edition of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) signed between representatives of the British Government or East India Company, and foreign rulers, dignitories or government officials, in the regions of Aden, south west Arabia, the Arab coast...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1933
Extent:

409 folios

6604. IOR/L/PS/20/G3/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/G3/14
Title:
‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’
Scope & Content:
The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1933
Extent:

1 volume (289 folios)

6605. IOR/L/PS/20/G43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/G43
Title:
The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence
Scope & Content:
The volume, written by Valentine Chirol and printed in London by John Murray in 1903, is based on a series of letters written by Chirol during a journey through Persia and the Persian Guf, that appeared in The Times in 1902 and 1903. The main topics are: the concept of 'Middle East'; the Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 volume (306 folios )

6606. IOR/L/PS/20/G49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/G49
Title:
Record of Some Travellers in Asia, East Africa and Arabia whose Works Have Been of Interest to the Government of India, Commencing from 1875
Scope & Content:
The volume is Record of Some Travellers in Asia, East Africa and Arabia whose Works Have Been of Interest to the Government of India, Commencing from 1875 (Simla: Government Monotype Press, 1910). The volume lists the names of travellers (British, Indian and 'foreigners') from 1875 up to the da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

6607. IOR/W/L/PS/10/12 (ii)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/10/12 (ii)
Title:
Damascus-Mekka Railway
Scope & Content:
A printed map of the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Mekka [Mecca]. The map is a copy of an original that was produced by Hajji Mukhtar Bey, Technical Adviser of the Hejaz Railway, and compiled by Captain (Artillery) Eumer Zekki and Lieutenant Hassan Muin, in the Printing Works of the Ottoman Min...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 map

6608. IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (i)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (i)
Title:
'PERSIAN GULF: Sketch of APPROACHES TO KUWAIT HARBOUR AND SHATT AL ARAB'
Scope & Content:
The map shows the channels of the 'Shatt al Arab or Basra River' and their depths with soundings in fathoms. The map indicates hydrology and settlements, with brief descriptions of topography and vegetation. A key indicates lighting in the waterways (fixed and flashing) and gravel, mud, rock, sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1907
Extent:
1 map

6609. IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (ii)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (ii)
Title:
'SOUTH-EAST TURKEY IN ASIA. BUSRA'
Scope & Content:
The map shows Basra, Kuwait and Mohammerah and also indicates hydrology and settlement with brief descriptions of topography and some indication of relief. It is described as sheet 4 (Basra) in which the other sheets are 1 (Baghdad), 2 (Amara), and 3 (Samara). Two notes explain the significanc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 map

6610. IOR/W/L/PS/10/58 (i)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/10/58 (i)
Title:
THE TIGRIS-EUPHRATES DELTA SHOWING POSSIBLE LINES OF RAILWAY
Scope & Content:
The map shows the Tigris-Euphrates delta indicating the proposed routes of a number of railway lines. The map also indicates the course of the Tigris, Euphrates and Karun rivers as well as water management features such as the proposed 'Feluja Barrage' and 'proposed head regulator for the Habban...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 map

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