‘Military report on the British Protectorate of Aden and the Amir of Dala’s territories, with special reports on certain other tribes and adjoining border districts’
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The volume, a military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the QMG’s [Quartermaster General’s] Department and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, is comprised of several sections, as follows: section I, a Military Report on the British Protectorate of Aden, prep...
Persian Gulf: Relative to the presentation by the authorities in the - of a Pilot Boat to His Highness the Imaum of Muskat.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 4 of 23 December 1858, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Governmen...
Persian Gulf, His Highness Omer Pasha: Relative to the request of - for a Steamer to convey him from Bussorah to Suez.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 28 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Persian Gulf, Mahomed bin Saeed: Desire of - to return to the Arab Coast. Claims of the Demaun Chief on the Government of Bahrein.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 34 of 22 June 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government o...
Political No. 3 of 1875, Forwarding a Letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Recommending that the Local Rank of Lieutenant-Colonel May be Conferred on Captain (Brevet-Major) Samuel Barrett Miles
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This item consists of a copy of a Political Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 1 January 1875 (received by the India Office on 25 January 1875 and answered on 18 March 1875), submitting a letter from the Political Resident in the P...
File 488/1920 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- Bin Saud & H.M. Govt. H.M. Govt’s policy towards Bin Saud. Bin Saud’s Subsidy. Negotiations with Bin Saud’s envoy 1923.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the policy of the British Government towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, popularly known as Ibn Saud]. It includes papers relating to the following: the request from Bin Saud for an increase in his subsidy; the visit of ...
‘MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE TELEGRAPH LINES OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT AND CONNECTED SYSTEMS’
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The map illustrates the telegraph lines operated by the Indo-European Telegraph Department and connected systems across Persia, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Baluchistan. It also includes railway lines (dashed lines) and wireless stations (triangles). A reference key is provided, but no scale is g...
The Teesta between Chakoong and Choonthang. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 21. View looking along the boulder-strewn river, with figures posed in the foreground: 'We marched on sometimes above the river, sometimes in the bed, till we reached a lovely piece of shade in the bed of the river under a cliff near the Ong-chu. H...
‘Wadi Hidaba at well above Al ’Ashar (looking South up the Wadi). Juheli hills in background.’
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Reproduction of a black-and-white illustration of Wadi Hidaba [Ḩidābah], at the well above Al ’Ashar [Al Ashār]. An encampment of tents fills the bottom of the valley, giving a sense of scale to the scene, which has the Juheli [Juḩaylī] hills in the background.
Yun-nan soldier on the march. A personal body-guard. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Full-length portrait of a Chinese soldier, standing with his pack hanging from the rifle slung over his shoulder, and holding an umbrella above his head.
