The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is securing cordial relations with the Bakhtiari to ensure security for British trade. The volume covers: Proposed grant of British honours to two Bakhtiari khans, Sirdar Assad and Sirdar Jang. Proposed matri...
This file concerns the disputed Hashtadan lands, on the Perso-Afghan frontier. It begins with a confidential letter, dated 24 May 1885, from Colonel Joseph West Ridgeway, Assistant Commissioner in charge, Afghan Boundary Commission, Camp Sinjao, to Earl Granville [Granville George Leveson-Gower,...
Anglo-Persian Relations Regarding the Persian Siege of Herat
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 4 dated 21 May 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Malta 17 July 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 1 and 19 May 1838. Th...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 2 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 11-16 December 1856. The papers chiefly comprise two letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John J...
Turkish Arabia Affairs: Matters Relating to the Anglo-Persian War
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This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 16 dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure is also dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure comprises a despatch, dated 22 December 1856, from C...
The item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 3 of 24 January 1868, 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...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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Three letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, sent from Bussora and dated 1 May 1781, covers subjects including: Repo...
The title provided at the beginning of this item does not relate in any way to the item's contents. Part 10 is in fact concerned with the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Bri...
This part contains papers relating to the British Consulate at Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]. These papers largely relate to the Kermanshah Consulate accounts. The part also includes papers relating to: the postponement of Lieutenant Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion assuming his appointment as HM Consu...
Ext 4196/46 'Violation of Persian territory by RAF plane carrying a Persian subject on a personal visit to Jiwani'
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The file contains correspondence regarding the unauthorised entry of Persian [Iranian] territory by an Royal Air Force (RAF) plane. The main correspondents are as follows; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident; the Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan; HM Ambassador to Iran and the Government of...
