Iran

Also see

• Persian War 1856-57
• Norperforce
• Post and Telegraphs Department for information abot the Indo-European Telegraph

Records

• See General Register Office for births, marriages and deaths.
• British Library catalogue entry Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf IOR/G/29 1620-1822
• British Library catalogue entry Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf IOR/R/15 1763-1951.

External links

• Bushehr (Bushire) Wikipedia
• Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran Encyclopaedia Iranica. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
  • "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" by John Packer Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. html version, original pdf
• Photograph of an unidentified captain of the Royal Engineers who was in all likelihood attached to the Indo-European Telegraph Department office that was located in Teheran. From the Soldiers of the Queen website.
• "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I, March 2009 html version, original pdf
• This link is a table which shows the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Bushire