IOR/L/PS/20/C248

This volume is a collection of correspondence about the Persian Coast, selected by Jerome A Saldanha and printed in Simla in 1906.

The volume is divided into twelve chapters:

• Internal Affairs, with list of officials and events (folios 7-16);
• Claims of the Imam of Maskat [Muscat] to the islands of Kishm, Angaum and Ormuz and the town of Bandar Abbas and its dependencies (folios 17-30);
• Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. British Expedition to the Persian Gulf and Karun River (folios 31-34);
• Various attempts made to establish Persian influence in the Persian Gulf, 1887-1905 (folios 35-39);
• Residency appointments, establishments, and guards and buildings on the Persian Coast and Islands (folios 40-49);
• British extra-territorial jurisdiction on the Persian Coast and Islands (folios 50-62);
• Questions of Status (folios 63-69);
• Claims of British subjects and protegés against the Persian Government and Officials and Persian subjects (folios 70-80);
• Certain miscellaneous affairs with regard to British relations with Persia (folios 81-87);
• Infringement of British Commercial Rights (folios 88-94);
• Introduction of Belgian Customs Administration and new Tariff, 1900-1905 (folios 95-100);
• Persian interference with the British Postal arrangements (folios 101-103).