‘Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, etc.: Made by certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and certain British trading companies’
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This volume is a printed report, published by the Government of India Press (Calcutta [Kolkata]: 1926), constituting a collection of assurances, undertakings and agreements made by chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and trading companies between 1890 and 1922. · No....
'Diary of a Tour in the Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia December 1906, by Lieutenant-Colonel Malleson Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff.'
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The diary, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, comprises daily entries and accounts of his travels from 3 to 29 December 1906. The diary commences on his arrival at sea off Maskat [Muscat] before recounting the journey to Basra via Bushire and Koweit [Kuwait] and on to Baghdad, Bab...
‘Supplementary Map to Area No 6 showing Tribal Dispositions round the Hammar Lake’
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This map is one of three map sheets included in IOR/L/PS/20/C202/3. It portrays part of an area of southern Iraq designated as ‘Area No 6’ by the British military forces in Iraq, centred on the Hammar Lake. The map shows the territorial boundaries of different tribal groups. The names and te...
Abstract of Contents of a Despatch relating to the Slave Trade between the Coasts of Africa and the Persian Gulf
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This part of volume consists of an abstract of contents of a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 16 of 1841, dated 28 February 1841. The enclosures listed are not included in the volume; there is a note on the verso of folio 385 (and a later n...
Political No. 69 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Regarding the Claim of the Sultan of Lahej to Little Aden, and the Claim of Syed Alowi to the Huswah
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This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 15 May 1873 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 10 June 1873, forwarding copies of papers regarding the claim of the Sultan of Lahej to...
Enclosures to General No. 15 of 1873, Forwarding Papers Relating to Aid Rendered by the Officers and Crew of HMS Hugh Rose, Bombay Marine, to the British Steam-ship Mesopotamia, when on Fire in Bushire Roads
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This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 8 May 1873 and received in the India Office Political Department on 3 June 1873, forwarding papers relating to aid rendered by the officers and crew of HMS...
Political No. 95 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of a Letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Reporting the Death at Zanzibar of Mr Brenner, Vice-Consul for the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Aden
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This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 June 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 8 July 1874, forwarding for information a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the...
'Translation of a Letter from His Royal Highness Abbas Meerza to Sir Harford Jones Baronet and KC dated the 26 October 1810'
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Translation of a letter from the Prince Royal [Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran], Abbas Meerza [Mirza], to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, of 26 October 1810. The letter gives an account of a successful Persian attack upon a Russian post at Kara Kil...
Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tabriz, to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and the Court of Directors of the East India Company
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Copy of a letter from HM Ambassador to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tabriz, to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and the Court of Directors of the East India Company, of 15 July 1813, which was received on 11 January 1814. The letter encloses a firman [order] and its translation (not included ...
Copy of a Letter from HM Minister at St Petersburgh, Lord Walpole, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Castlereagh
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Copy of a letter from HM minister at St Petersburgh [St Petersburg], Lord Walpole, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 30 November 1813, which was received on 24 January 1814. The letter reports the arrival of a copy of the peace treaty between Russia and Persia...
