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1. 'Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917)'
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- Abstract: The volume, marked confidential, is Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917), prepared at the General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. The volume is an index of place names with reference to the Survey of India degree sheets upon which each place can be found, along with a grid reference. On the front cover is a note on the reference system and a list of the degree sheets that the index covers.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 17; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
2. 'Index to the Precis of Letters from Mr Harford Jones'
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- Abstract: This part consists of a subject index to the précis included in IOR/G/29/27, ff 515-552. The précis is of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control. Full copies of these letters can be found in IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514.Physical description: The index is arranged alphabetically.
3. 'INDEX AND ABSTRACTS TO INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE (SECRET BRANCH) 1866 TO 1874'
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- Abstract: This volume is an indexed manuscript inventory of abstracts of the despatches comprising sub-series IOR/L/PS/5/259-277, ‘Secret Letters and Enclosures from India’ 1866-1874, volumes 1-19.The geographical coverage of this volume (and of series IOR/L/PS/5/259-277) is chiefly: Afghanistan; Central Asia; Persia [Iran]; Muscat; Khoten (Kashgar); Hyderabad; Carnatic Family; Mysore [Mysuru]; Khelat [Kalat]; Persian Gulf; Burmah [Myanmar, formerly Burma]; Mekran [Makran]; Zanzibar; Aden; Somali Coast; Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Nejd [Najd]; Ladakh; Indore; China; Bokhara [Bukhara]; Yemen; Cashmere [Kashmir]; Seistan [Sistan]; Political Agencies; Yarkand [Yarkant]; Hadhramant [Hadhramaut]; Nepaul [Nepal]; Siam [Thailand]; North East Frontier [Union Territory of India]; Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Yunnan.The volume consists of two sections, as follows:Folios 1-96: A manuscript alphabetical index of personal and place names. Each place name includes a detailed sub-index of general and specific matters or events. The numbers adjacent to each entry refer to the (contemporary) printed page numbers on which the abstract appears within this volume.Folios 96-203: A manuscript inventory, in chronological order, of abstracts of the documents comprising the sub-series IOR/L/PS/5/259-277. The information is arranged in four columns:1) The Political or Secret Department Despatch number2) The day, month and year of the despatch3) The ‘Letters from India’ abstract, titled by the name of the place or country, followed by a summary of the contents of the despatch4) The volume number (I-XIX) and the page numbers (the original manuscript pagination) covered by the Secret or Political Department DespatchNote: Folios 204 to 228 are blank (216-266 of the original printed pagination).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 228; 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 leading and ending flyleaves.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence between ff 96-228.
4. ‘File 28/1 H Proposal for provision of Indian Infantry Company for Bahrain defence’
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- Abstract: The file comprises three items:a copy of a telegram (f 2) from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay) to the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) dated 28 May 1940. The Resident states that he is considering requesting a company of Indian infantry to be stationed in Bahrain, pending the formation of a local defence force, and asks the Political Agent if any local objection might be raised;the Political Agent’s reply to the Resident (f 3), dated 29 May 1940, in which the Agent suggests that the presence of such a force ‘may do more harm than good’, adding that careful explanation to the Shaikh and to the public would be required, and that mistrust and alarm might be the result;a typed list (f 4) of files in the War subject series (File 28). The list is similar to that given in Penelope Tuson, The records of the British Residency and agencies in the Persian Gulf(London: India Office Library & Records, 1979), with the exception that the list includes those files subsequently destroyed and thus not listed in Tuson. Some files in the list have pencil annotations in the margin reading ‘With P.A. [Political Agent] S.’ It is unclear why this file list is included in the file.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 2; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An addition foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-3; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.