Enclosures 115/2 and 115/4 to letter of 5 Oct 1828
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Translations of two letters from Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], and Ali Shah the Zillah Sultan [‘Alī Shāh Mīrzā Qājār Ẓil-e Sulṭān], Persian Prince, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, undated. The letters co...
File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
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Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & C...
The file mainly consists of papers relating to the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line and road in Persia [Iran]. It includes correspondence regarding: the diversion of the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line via Tarum and Saidabad; the estimated cost of constructing this new telegraph line;...
File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
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This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; India Office draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for ...
File 450/1922 Pt 4 'Kuwait Conference: Appointment of Major J. C. More as Secretary'
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Correspondence relating to the appointment of Major James Carmichale More as secretary at the Kuwait Conference of 1923-1924. The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, Colonial Office, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Political Residency in the Persian Gu...
Ext 4728/46 'Requests of Messrs Wimpey and Co Ltd for information on taxation or import duty restrictions in Kuwait'
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The file contains correspondence regarding enquiries made by George Wimpey and Company Limited with the India Office (Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison), Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Kuwait on taxation or import duty restrictions. The correspondence also cont...
Coll 5/9 ‘Air Route to India, Persia: Abandonment of South Persian Route — Negotiations with Persian Government’
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The file contains correspondence relating to the efforts of the British Government to negotiate a renewal of Imperial Airways' concession to operate its United Kingdom (UK) to India international service over Southern Persia; the concession being due to expire in 1932. The file also covers the s...
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of Private Flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
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The file contains correspondence (mainly telegrams) on two subjects. One subject is proposals for charter flights between Aden and Bombay by Ethiopian Airways, on behalf of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The other subject is the development of Czechoslovak civil aviation and Br...
Coll 7/47 'Afghanistan: supply of arms and equipment to Afghan government: Afghan Military mission to India'
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Correspondence regarding the possible supply of military aid and training by the Government of India to the Government of Afghanistan, and the broader policy of the Imperial and Indian Governments toward Afghanistan. The file was opened following a request by Mohammed Zahir Shah for arms, ammun...
Map compiled by Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John of the Royal Engineers, by order of the Secretary of State for India, to show the western frontier of the territories of His Highness the Khán of Kálát, as determined by the Frontier Commission under Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid...
