Ta-peng-chiang. Ferry over the Me-kong on the Wei-yuan - Kun-lung route. From the left bank looking down river. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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View downriver, with a settlement of houses on the riverbank on the far side above the ferry landing (where a large group of porters are gathered at the water's edge. Behind the steep wooded hillside rises from the river.
‘Proceedings of the Persian Government in the neighbourhood of Bunder Abbass’
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Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 15 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 24 October 1847-11 March 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to Persian [Iranian] threats to re-take control of Bunder Abbass [Bandar Ab...
‘LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 7. MAR. 1803 TO 31. MAR. 1811. MR MANESTY & HIS ASSISTANT. VOL. 9.’
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The volume contains letters, mostly to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and mainly from the Resident at Busssora [Basra, also spelled Bussarah in this volume], Samuel Manesty, and the following, successively in temporary charge of the Bussora Residency (a...
File 2834/1917 Pt 4, 'South Persia Rifles: - General correspondence regarding disbandment. Disposal of arms, ammunition, stores etc.'
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This item relates to the disbandment of the South Persia Rifles, including attempts (in the opinion of the India Office) of the Foreign Office and HM Minister in Tehran to prolong its existence, and the disposal of arms, ammunition, equipment and medical stores. The principal correspondents are...
Coll 7/38 'Arms, Ammunition & Arms Traffic. Issue of licences for the export of arms to Persian Gulf.'
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Correspondence regarding applications for permission to import arms, ammunition, industrial explosives and related equipment into Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. The primary correspondents are the Under Secretary of State for India, the Board of Trade Imports and Exports Licensing Section, the War Of...
Coll 28/35 ‘Flying of Flags in; Persian Regulations re. flying of flags by foreigners in Persia. In. of Consular buildings’
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Correspondence concerning the flying of flags and the positioning of flag staffs at British consular buildings in Persia [Iran], including at Britain’s naval base on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], and the British Consulate at Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The file begins in 1931 wit...
Coll 29/2 'Bushire Residency: question of transfer to Bahrain'
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The file concerns the business case to transfer the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain. The file is composed of internal correspondence between British officials including the Foreign Office (C W Baxter), the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive, Reginald ...
Coll 29/118(7) 'Disposal of unwanted consular property in Bushire'
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The file concerns the sale of consular properties belonging to the British Vice-Consulates at Bushire and Bandar Abbas. The file includes description of the buildings and the properties, and a valuation report for the Bahmani Electricity Plant at Bushire. The file contains correspondence betwe...
Coll 30/67 'Koweit & H.M.G.: Policy of H.M.G. in regard to relations with the Shaikh of Koweit.'
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The file concerns British Government (HMG) policy on relations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait]. The file contains correspondence, minutes and memoranda produced by senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Per...
‘Oil concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrein in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925 (as revised up to 12th January 1934).’
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Printed copy of the Bahrain (spelt Bahrein throughout) oil concession, signed by Shaikh Hamad bin Shaikh Issa Al Khalifah [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] and the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited in 1925, with revisions in 1934. The agreement is marked ‘India Office’ in print on the front cover...
