'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908'
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This volume is Volume II of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1908) compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The volume is a geographical dictionary with a series of alphabetically arranged articles relating to the physical and political conditions of the ...
Continuation of correspondence and memoranda regarding the proposed construction of railways in Persia, and additional bids for mining concessions. The correspondents are the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, HM Minister at Teheran [Charles Murray Marling], Marquess Curzon,...
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
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The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Ext 1672/43 Persia. Welfare arrangements in industrial concerns
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The file contains correspondence and reports from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the British Embassy at Tehran, the Minister of State in Cairo, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the British Consulates in Tabriz, ...
File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
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Thevolume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities ofPan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the firstyear of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned withpossible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying ...
File 53/1915 Pt 5 'German War: Turkey; Arab Kingdom; the Petrograd negotiations'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the discussions (Petrograd negotiations) between Britain, France and Russia over the creation of an Arab Kingdom and associated zones of British, French and Russian influence in the event of the defeat o...
This file contains various excerpts from, and full translations of, letters sent during the Second World War and intercepted by the Government of India. The file includes: a letter from a member of staff from LM Ericsson relating to the sale and shipping of fuses to the Royal Ministry of Posts, ...
Taxation of British Subjects in Muscat, and their Employees, by the Muscat Government
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The issue of the taxation by the Muscat Government of British subjects and their employees at Muscat arose following complaints by certain British subjects. Although not specifically provided for by treaty, exempt...
The Station Houses Erected by the Bombay Steam Fund in the Desert of Suez
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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 106 of 1847, dated 30 December 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-6 and are dated 21 to 28 December 1847. The enclosures relate to th...
Political No. 224 of 1873, Forwarding a Copy of Papers Concerning Relations between Bahrein and the Tribes on the Guttur Coast
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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 26 December 1873 and received by the India office (date and department not stated), forwarding a copy of a letter concerning relations between Bahrein [...
