Abstract: This file contains strength returns from units of the Indian Army, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force in British India, as well as forces deployed in Persia [Iran] (covering South Persia, Southeast Persia, and the E[ast] P[ersia] Force), the Persian Gulf ports, and Aden, issued by the Adjutant-General in India.The strength returns detail the number of personnel serving with military branches and individual units as of 1 June 1924, grouped under the following categories:‘Combatant Services – Regular Forces’‘Auxiliary Force – India’‘Military Police and Levies’‘Imperial Service Troops’‘Miscellaneous Units’‘Departmental and Administrative Services’.The returns are further divided into sub-categories such as: sanctioned and actual strength; British and Indian officers, other ranks, and followers; ‘Class I’ and ‘Class II’ or ‘Class A’ and ‘Class B’ personnel; ‘Active’, ‘Reserve’, and ‘Cadet’ personnel; and ‘Mounted’ and ‘Foot’ personnel.Some returns contain footnotes with additional details about specific units.The file was printed in Simla [Shimla] and is marked 'GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS 1924’.The file is bound in a volume with shelfmarks IOR/L/MIL/17/5/1290-1294 and 1296-1301.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 190, and terminates at f 224, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Covers a 180-mile length of the Persian Gulf coast from Ras Tuloop [Ras Tanub, Iran] south-eastwards to Bushire [Bushehr, Iran], including a twenty-mile hinterland of Persia [Iran]. Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings, sands and muds, relief by shading, vegetation, settlements, forts, ruins and place names, and includes topographical and hydrographic notes.Surveyed by Lieutenants George Barnes Brucks and Robert Cogan, 1826. Engraved by Bateman and Son. Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Honourable East India Company.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 500 x 592mm, on sheet 583 x 713mm
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a loan made to the Persian Government in April 1903, and further advances made during 1904 and 1905.The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of the loan agreements including possible concessions and collateral that could be secured against them; and agreements with the Imperial Bank of Persia through whom the money was loaned. Also discussed is the definition of the term 'Fars and the Persian Gulf' in relation to customs duties, as this was one of the concessions that the 1903 loan was secured against.Further discussion surrounds loans and advances which the Persian Government were negotiating with the Russian Government; and a proposal for an irrigation scheme on the Karun River which was considered as a possible concession in return for a further loan advance.Included in the volume is a copy of the
Règlement Douaniersigned on the 29 August 1904 between representatives of the Persian Government and His Majesty's Government (ff 193-232).The principal correspondents in the volume include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Lansdowne, Sir Edward Grey), the British Minister to Persia (Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge), the Under Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Charles Hardinge, Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson), and for India (Earl Percy, Sir Arthur Godley), the Viceroy of India (Lord Curzon of Keddleston), the Secretary to the Political and Secret Department of the India Office (Sir Richmond Richie) and the London Manager of the Imperial Bank of Persia (George Newell).The volume is part 1 of 4. 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: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 526; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, despatches, notes and memoranda relating to financial loans made by the Governments of Great Britain and Russia to the Government of Persia from 1901 to 1905; and potential loans to be made during 1906 and 1907.The volume discusses the failure of the Persian Government to meet repayment schedules for existing loans and the securities such as customs revenue and concessions which the loans were guaranteed against.Also discussed in the volume are a possible joint Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Government, which was eventually dismissed owing to the illness and subsequent death of the Shah (Muẓaffari’d-Dīn Shāh Qājār) in January 1907.The principal correspondents in the volume are the British Ambassador to Persia (Sir Cecil Spring Rice), the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir Arthur Nicolson), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, and Treasury.Other correspondents include the Chargé d’Affaires for the British Legation at Tehran (Evelyn Grant Duff), the Russian Imperial Minister for Foreign Affairs (Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky) and his Assistant Minister (Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky), and the Secretary of State for India (Sir John Morley). Also included is correspondence with the Manager (George Newell) and Chairman (Sir Lepel Griffin) of the Imperial Bank of Persia through whom British loans to the Persian Government had been arranged.The volume is part 2 of 4. 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 527; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the financial situation in Persia and the possibility of a joint Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Government. The terms of the joint loan, including financial reforms which would have to be undertaken by the Persian Government, are discussed in detail.Included in the volume are summaries of the financial situation from 1903 onwards, records of the loans made to the Persian Government in 1903 and 1904 and repayments made against them, and discussion on the Persian Government’s difficulties in paying their debts. Also discussed is a request from the Persian Government in 1910 for a conversion loan from the Imperial Bank of Persia in order to consolidate their debts.The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), the British Minister in Tehran (Sir Charles Murray Marling, Sir George Heard Barclay) and the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir Arthur Nicolson), along with representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office and Treasury.Other correspondents include the Russian Imperial Minister for Foreign Affairs (Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky), the French Financial Adviser to the Persian Government (Eugène Bizot) and the Belgian Administrator-General of Persian Customs (Joseph Mornard).The correspondence from the Government departments from May 1910 onwards contains a thick black border according to official mourning protocol following the death of King Edward VII on 6 May 1910.The volume is part 3 of 4. 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 605; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume discusses the financial situation in Persia and proposals put forward in 1910 and 1911 for loans to the Persian Government from private sources.Initial offers of loans to the Persian Government were made by Messrs M Samuel and Company, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a consortium led by Charles William Wallace, Messrs Seligman Brothers, and the Imperial Bank of Persia. The offers from Messrs Seligman Brothers and the Imperial Bank of Persia were taken forward and put to the Persian Mejdliss [Majlis] in 1911.Also discussed in the volume are loans made by the British Government and Government of India in 1903 and 1904, including their agreed repayment schedule and interest rates.Further discussion also relates to relations between Great Britain and Russia in respect to Persia and both Countries' attitudes towards the financial situation there.The principal correspondents include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the British Ambassador to Persia (Charles Murray Marling, Sir George Head Barclay, Sir Walter Beaupre Townley); the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir Arthur Nicolson, Sir George William Buchanan, Hugh O’Beirne); representatives of the Foreign Office and India Office; Messrs Seligman Brothers; and the Imperial Bank of Persia (George Newell, Sir Thomas Jackson, Augustus Ottiwell Wood).This volume is part 4 of 4. 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.The subject continues in files IOR/L/PS/10/220 and IOR/L/PS/10/353-355.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 511; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Map showing Persia and the Persian Gulf. The map shows cities, roads, and hydrology, and highlights the scale of Russian trade and British trade. There are some boundaries traced by hand: in yellow the boundary suggested in Sistan, and in blue the border preferred by Kerman.Physical description: Materials: printed in colour on paper with manuscript additions in coloured pencilDimensions: 790 x 990 mm
Abstract: The map shows a region encompassing parts of Russia, Persia, Arabia and the Ottoman Empire, indicating the routes of proposed and existing railway lines. The map also shows hydrology, topography and major cities and towns.The map is Plate 2 in 'Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman' (Naval Intelligence Department No. 694), 1903, and bears the printing statement, 'Weller & Graham, Ltd. Litho, London.'.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 196 x 240mm, on sheet 244 x 405mm
Abstract: Imprint:London, Published by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet StreetDistinctive Features:Relief shown by shading.Provinces outlined in colour.Physical description: Dimensions:502 x 559 mm, on sheet 550 x 619 mm
Abstract: The map shows a central northern portion of the Arabian Peninsula and a south-western portion of Persia, indicating geographical regions, boundaries, hydrology, vegetation, routes, settlements and wells, with some indication of relief and brief descriptions of topography.An accompanying letter indicates that the map is a reproduction made by the Surveyor General in India. The map bears the printing statement, 'Survey Section[, General Staff, India] No. 911 Sept. 1940-20.'Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 1340 x 1015mm, on sheets 785 x 595mm
Abstract: Imprint:Photozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Brach, Survey of India, Dehra Dún, C. Dyson, photo; C. G. Ollenbach Zinco.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Shows route of the submarine telegraph cable laid in 1864 and 1867.Includes a note with details on the sources used in compilation of the map and a table listing chief tribes and provinces of Nejd.Physical description: Dimensions:470 x 950 mm
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Provisional issue for official use only.Limits of the administrative sphere in Persia of the Bushire Residency shown in blue, while limits of the consular Jurisdiction of the various officers printed in red with boundaries indicated by pecked line and outlined in colour. Borders numbered and lettered for reference with an explanatory note below title. Features include roads, railways with stations and Submarine Telegraph Cable line. Shoals shown by dotted line.Bottom left-hand corner below neat line: ‘S.D.O. No. 369, 1912’.Physical description: Dimensions:723 x 832 mm, on sheet 838 x 982 mm