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Coll 29/45(3) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf (Policy and Superior staff)'
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The file concerns conditions of employment at the British Consulates in Iran and in the Persian Gulf. The file is compiled when, after Indian Independence, the Foreign Office was planning to take over certain posts previously administered by the Government of India. The file contains: condition...
Coll 29/45(8) 'Payment of gratuities to menial staff previously employed at GOI posts in Persia'
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The file concerns mode of payment of gratuities to the menials rendered surplus in the Persian Gulf on the transfer of power in India. The file is composed of correspondence between the British Embassy in Tehran, the Foreign Office, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, the Of...
Coll 29/78 'Zabul: creation of vice consulate; allowances attached to post of Indian Medical Service Officers in East Persia'
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The file concerns the creation of Vice-Consulate at Zabul. The file covers: proposal of the Government of India to create a post of Vice-Consul at Zabul, 1936 proposal to reduce allowances to Consul General, Meshed, 1936-37 report 'A note on the importance of Seistan to India', 1939 (ff 6-20). ...
Coll 29/105 'Proposed appointment of an Inspector General for Consulates in Persia: including Mr Lyttelton's memorandum'
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The file concerns the proposal to appoint an Inspector General for Consulates in Persia, and includes a memorandum by Oliver Lyttleton, Minister of State in the Middle East, concerning his visit to Persia (folios 63-67). The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Viceroy...
Coll 29/110 'Lingah Consular Agency: and appointment of officer to control wireless station at Jask'
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The file concerns consular expenditure in Persia, the reopening in 1943 of the Lingah [Bandar Lengeh, Iran] Consular Agency, the re-opening of a Wireless Station at Jask in 1943, and the appointment of an officer to control Lingah wireless station. The file is composed solely of internal corres...
'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (April-June, 1928)'
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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in August 1928, is an account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the first part of his third mission (April-June 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), King ...
'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (July-August, 1928)'
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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in January 1929, is a continuation of the April-June 1928 account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the second part of his third mission (July-August 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān...
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports, financial statements and some local newsletters, relating to diplomatic, military and logistical aspects of the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army...
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
The Punishment of the Chiefs of Bahrein and Aboothabee Using HMS Vigilant
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 187 of 1868, dated 24 October 1868, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-4, dated 9-22 October 1868. The enclosures comprise a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to ...
