File 1421/1908 Pt 3-5 'Persia: Oil'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 1421/1908 Pt 3-5 'Persia: Oil'
- Date:
- 1909/1919
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence, notes, and memoranda concerning oil work in Persia. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India, Foreign Office, and India Office. Included as enclosures is further correspondence, often in the form of printed collections that relate to the matter at hand. This correspondence is between the Government of India, Foreign Office, various political and diplomatic offices in Persia, representatives of Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Persian government officials, and some semi-autonomous figures within Persia. The papers include drafts and duplicates.The three parts of the volume relate to different subjects, as follows:3. The agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] over the lease of land for an oil refinery;4. Relations between the Bakhtiari Khans and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company;5. A proposed geological survey of Western Persia to be carried out by the company.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 386; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Concessions, Oil, Iran
- Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000025_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000025_en
IOR/L/PS/10/144
IOR/L/PS/10/144