Anglo-Persian War: British Operations in the Persian Gulf and the Appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram as Commander of the Expeditionary Force
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 7 of 1857, dated 22 January 1857. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 22 December 1856-19 January 1857. The enclosures consist...
The Accession of Syud Toorkee to Power in Muscat and the Policy to be Taken by the British Government
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Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 27 of 1871, dated 23 May 1871, containing enclosures dated 23 February-23 May 1871. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to questions which have arisen in connection...
‘Dispatches received from Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia’
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Enclosures nos. 2-4 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 23 April 1845. The enclosures are dated 8 December 1844-15 February 1845. The enclosures consist of copies of dispatches from Justin Sheil, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court o...
The Anglo-Persian War: The Despatch of a Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse to the Persian Gulf
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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. 23 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 17 January-2 February 1857. The item comprises correspondence, by letter and electric tel...
Coll 29/114(1) 'Supply of transport vehicles for consular posts in Persia and the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns the supply of cars for use of consular officers in the Persian Gulf and their maintenance. The file contains a promotional leaflet for Armstrong Siddeley cars (folios 157-166). The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political A...
File 815/1917 Pt 1A 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; improvements on original scheme; proposals for lights at Shaikh Shuaib, Henjam, Muscat and Jask'
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This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the negotiations for the installation and maintenance of lighthouses and buoying in the Persian Gulf after the First World War, specifically at Muscat, Henjam and Sheikh Shuaib. Related matters of discussion include the ...
File 815/1917 Pt 7 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting and Buoying. Lighthouse Tender, and Despatch Vessel.'
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This part contains interdepartmental correspondence and memoranda relating to lighting and buoying in the Persian Gulf. Notable topics of discussion include the following: Changes to RIMS Nearchus and its personnel (referred to as its 'revised permanent establishment') Proposed new arrangements...
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
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The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Coll 29/56 'Duzdap: question of retention of vice consulates'
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The file concerns the British Vice-Consulate at Duzdap [Zahedan, Iran]. The file contains correspondence related to: creation of the Vice-Consulate in 1928 to be retained until 1931, with further extensions until 1933, 1935, and 1936 taxation of the area occupied by the Vice-Consulate, 1935 cla...
Coll 35/16 'Opening of an Indian Post Office at Dubai: postal arrangements in the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns postal offices in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Discussions on the proposal to open a Post Office at Sharjah, 1933-37 Discussions on the proposal to open a Post Office in Dubai, 1938 Note on the Indian Post and Telegraph Services in the Persian Gulf, 1946 Future adminis...
