Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council'
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Correspondence relating to the revision of the five Orders in Council in the Persian Gulf: Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and The Trucial States. The revision was a result of Indian Independence and the transfer of power in the Gulf from the Government of India to HM Government of the United Ki...
Coll 35/26 'Cable reorganisation in the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns the reorganisation of telegraph communications in Iran after 1935. The file contains: Closure of Naval Station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū], and of British Cemetery and Henjam Wireless Station, 1935 Negotiations with Cable and Wireless on their proposal to ...
Coll 35/26(2) 'Cable reorganisation in the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns wireless stations and buildings in the Persian Gulf: at Bushire, Jask, Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] and Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām]. The file focuses on: closing of wireless station at Jask, 1938 Government of India's proposals for the disposal of the apparatus and buildings of the...
The file concerns Kuwait Oil Company's wireless equipment at Kuwait and Bahrah [Kuwait] in 1936, and their communications with oil tankers visiting Kuwait, in 1946. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the India Off...
Muscat Affairs and the Present Policy of the Government of India Prohibiting Warlike Operations by Sea in the Persian Gulf
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 201 of 1869, dated 24 June 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-4, dated 25 May-11 June 1869. The enclosures consist of: A letter to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign De...
Visit of an Uncle of the Shah of Persia to the Emperor of Russia at Tiflis
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Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The Enclosure consists of a letter from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 17 August 1871. The Hishmet-ed-dowleh, uncle to the Shah of Persia, was ...
The Manner in which J C Floyd Performed His Duties when in Medical Charge of the Euphrates Expedition
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 122 of 1842, dated 29 October 1842. The enclosure, numbered 1 and dated 22 September 1842, consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Bom...
The Sending of Presents from the Malia Rajah of Lahore to Queen Victoria from Bombay to England via Egypt
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 133 of 1842. The enclosure is dated 5 November 1842. It consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-...
Aden Affairs: A Difference of Opinion between the Agent at Aden and Captain Kilner, the Executive Engineer at Aden
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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1847, dated 18 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 3-22 March 1847. The primary document is a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government o...
Translation of the Preliminary Treaty with the Sheiks of Bahrein, and Translation of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 104 of 1847, dated 28 December 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-4. Enclosure No. 3 consists of a copy of the ‘Translation of the Pr...