Coll 27/22 ‘Passports. Permits issued by H.M. Consular Officers in Iran on passports of Indians travelling to Iran.’
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The file contains papers relating to permits issued by HM Consular Officers in Iran to British Indians. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India External Affairs Department, and correspondents including the Consul General for Iran in India, and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Mi...
The file concerns the financing of the Muscat Political Agency after the closing of the Indian Treasury, in 1948. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Government of India, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Political Agent at Muscat, and the Political Residency...
The file concerns the British Consulate at Kermanshah. The file covers office allowance grants and supply of maps. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, and the British Consulates at Gulhek, and Kermanshah,...
The file concerns the British Consulate site and buildings at Ahwaz. The file covers: proposal for improved office accommodations at Ahwaz Consulate, 1932sketch showing foundations of the Consulate built in 1924 and proposed boundary of the new building, in 1932 (f 292)disposal of unused buildi...
The Illicit Trade in Arms and Ammunition Between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan
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The file consists of notes and appendices providing a history of the arms trade up to 1908, prepared by C M Gibbon of the Persian Section of the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, Government of India. A preface is included by Wilfrid Malleson, Division of Chief of Genera...
‘SKETCH MAP to illustrate G of I's telegram No 783 d.26.3.36: The Overland air routes to Hong Kong’
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A sketch to illustrate a telegram (No 783 dated 26 March 1936) from the Government of India Department of Industries and Labour: see folios 261-263. The telegram suggested that a direct route between Burma and Hong Kong via the southern Shan States and French Indo-China should be considered in l...
Skeleton of Curzon's Map of PERSIA showing Routes Examined for the Central Persia Telegraph Line
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Map found at folio 5 of the 'Report on the preliminary survey of the route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line', 1899. The map shows existing and proposed telegraph routes across Persia [Iran], Afghanistan and Pakistan, bounded roughly with Teheran [Tehran] in the North West, Bunder Abbas [Ba...
Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 13 of 1871, dated 3 April 1871, containing enclosures dated 23 February-3 April 1871. The despatch and enclosures relate to affairs in Oman: seeking the opinion of HM Government on the pol...
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 100 of 1847, dated 30 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 6 October to 26 November 1847. The enclosures cons...
Enclosures nos. 2-3 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 June 1848. The enclosures are dated 9-28 April 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] relating to affairs in Baghdad, includi...