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*[[South Persia Rifles]]
*[[South Persia Rifles]]
*[[Post and Telegraphs Department]] for information about the Indo-European Telegraph
*[[Post and Telegraphs Department]] for information about the Indo-European Telegraph
*[[Polish Refugees in India 1942-1948]]. The Polish refugees from Russia first came to Iran. Many subsequently went to India.


==FIBIS resources==
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=973&s_id=294  FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers  Graves and Monuments]  contains some entries from the  Bushire Armenian Church , the source given as "Handwritten C H A Bagshawe Bushire Sept 1926".  In particular entries appear in [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1621&s_id=973 Inscriptions Volume 2] but it is not known if there are additional entries in other volumes.
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=973&s_id=294  FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers  Graves and Monuments]  contains some entries from the  Bushire Armenian Church , the source given as "Handwritten C H A Bagshawe Bushire Sept 1926".  In particular entries appear in [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1621&s_id=973 Inscriptions Volume 2] but it is not known if there are additional entries in other volumes.


==Records==
==Records==
*See [[Iran#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
*See [[Iran#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
*See [[General Register Office]] for births, marriages and deaths.
*See [[General Register Office]] for births, marriages and deaths, including details of [[Findmypast]] and Ancestry databases. In particular Findmypast includes TNA FO 560/1 "Bushire, Iran: Register Of Births, Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths 1849-1895",  being indexes and also including the images in "British Armed Forces and Overseas Browse". Also some records from "Various Consulates, Iran (formerly Persia)" and some "Persian Gulf" locations.  
*[[Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists, London]].
*[[Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists, London]].
**The Society of Genealogists’  now archived page [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328033341/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/overseas.shtml#iran Geographical Resources Overseas: Iran]  states that it has records for Iran: Teheran: Akbarabad Prot Cemetery, British B 1811-1969
**The Society of Genealogists’  now archived page [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328033341/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/overseas.shtml#iran Geographical Resources Overseas: Iran]  states that it has records for Iran: Teheran: Akbarabad Prot Cemetery, British B 1811-1969
**A search for Iran in the Society of Genealogists' Catalogue includes the following entry: Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44
**A search for Iran in the Society of Genealogists' Catalogue includes the following entry: Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44
*“Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia” by Denis Wright from the journal ''Iran'' published by the British Institute of Persian Studies [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4299982 Vol. 36, (1998) pp. 165-173],  [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300001 Vol. 37, (1999), pp. 173-174], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300609 Vol. 39, (2001), pp. 293-298]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70565/page/n351/mode/2up "Graves of Europeans in the Armenian Cemetery at Isfahan"] by T. W. Haig ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (July, 1919), pp. 321-352. Archive.org.
:The  journal  ''Iran'' is available at the  [[British Library]]. These articles may  also be read in full through the website JSTOR, including through the free access provisions, see [[Miscellaneous tips#Access some articles in  the JSTOR subscription website for free|Miscellaneous tips-Access some articles in the JSTOR subscription website for free]]
*“Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia” by Denis Wright from the journal ''Iran'' published by the British Institute of Persian Studies [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4299982 Vol. 36, (1998) pp. 165-173],  [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300001 Vol. 37, (1999), pp. 173-174], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300609 Vol. 39, (2001), pp. 293-298] jstor.org. However, access through jstor.org to the entire articles is subject to a fee, unless you have access through your library.  The text, but no photographs, for the 1999 article, pages 173-174, may be seen [https://epdf.pub/no-title3f9ad9e51f0a1f745bf188341fd6240035779.html here] scroll down, download appears possible also. (epdf.pub).
*The [[LDS]] Library catalogue has the following entry: [https://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=153708&disp=Parish+register+transcripts&columns=*,0,0 Church of England in Iran. Anglican Chaplaincy (Julfa) Baptisms, 1875-1879 Marriages, 1877] Film 574493 Item 2. The original records are now  in the [http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/284/4/1/1866831?RECORD London Metropolitan Archives] DL/E/E/056/MS11215A  (previously in the Guildhall) and are records from the Mission Chapel, Julfa. The chapel appears to have been attached to the Church Missionary Society.
:The  journal  ''Iran'' is available at the  [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01017595572
:See also [http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~chaterfamilytree/Armenian_Graves_in_Bushire.html Armenian Graves in Bushire] from Chater Genealogy which refers to these articles and records. Another source for some transcription from a Wright article.<ref>[https://abushahr.blogspot.com/2019/09/burials-and-memorials-of-british-in.html Burials and Memorials of the British in Bushire (Bushehr)] abushahr.blogspot.com.</ref>
*The [[FamilySearch]] catalogue has the following entry: [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/153708  Church of England in Iran. Anglican Chaplaincy (Julfa) Baptisms, 1875-1879 Marriages, 1877] Film 574493 Item 2. Currently (2020/07) it is advised the FamilySearch digitised microfilm is viewable, for non church members,  at either a FamilySearch family history centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library, see [[FamilySearch Centres]], but at times in the past,  the catalogue icon  has advised microfilm viewing only. It appears that this microfilm is available at the [[Society of Genealogists]], London.  Although it is indicated that the film has been indexed, it appears likely that it is other parts of the microfilm which have been indexed, and not item 2.
:The original records are now  in the   London Metropolitan Archives DL/E/E/056/MS11215A  (previously in the Guildhall) and are records from the Mission Chapel, Julfa. The chapel appears to have been attached to the Church Missionary Society. [http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+DL~2FE~2FE~2F056~2FMS11215A?SESSIONSEARCH Catalogue entry] or [https://search.lma.gov.uk Search the Catalogue].
:There are also some records for Iran in  the [[IGI#India records|"World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch]]
:There are also some records for Iran in  the [[IGI#India records|"World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch]]
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]]. Also refer Qatar Digital Library, below.
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]]. Also refer Qatar Digital Library, below.
**[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/iran/index.html Iran: Sources in the India Office Records]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170914195745/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/iran/index.html Iran: Sources in the India Office Records], now an archived webpage.
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorg_4&cid=1-10#1-10    Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf  IOR/G/29]  1620-1822
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4ddbcaf1-e0dd-4cd4-8bb9-154895856e6b#1-10    Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf  IOR/G/29]  1620-1822
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-r15_3&cid=1#1 Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf  IOR/R/15]  1763-1951.
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/99dcdf9e-ad3e-46e1-b00c-0a4f0d54903a Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf  IOR/R/15]  1763-1951.
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlpwd&cid=1-7#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department  IOR/L/PWD/7]  1865-1931
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/37767189-6619-4c46-8e1c-8adc718136f2#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department  IOR/L/PWD/7]  1865-1931
**[http://www.idc.nl/ead/455.xml Finding Aid:British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880-1950] IDC Publishers. Original records held in the India Office Records. Includes a section on Iran.
**[http://www.idc.nl/ead/455.xml Finding Aid:British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880-1950] IDC Publishers. Original records held in the India Office Records. Includes a section on Iran.


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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushire Bushehr] (Bushire) Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushire Bushehr] (Bushire) Wikipedia
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department 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.  
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department 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. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Cf2W-vME38AJ:www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf+British+Raj+Telegraph+Baghdad&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShGH8XAHtbY8D0csv7zFY5xPGhGTwFY9zHWU_E2naeRgl8WfV2OKVL8ea4XonbuVzCiGvUz6yvZdrUM_yuw1TZLaoGycOJlai7bnhKy0K9K_oX84t-rF1tw8VjcrX0qGD6xbxQ1&sig=AHIEtbQp2F9jb0L6nPbTQs2Tlyi46CFweA html version], [http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf original pdf]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. now an archived webpage.
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266157 ''The formation of the Indo-European telegraph line : Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Persia 1855-1865''] by Suliman Shahvar 1997 Thesis (Ph.D.) School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
:[https://www.irannamag.com/en/article/سیم-نفاق-انگلیس،-خط-تلگراف-هندواروپا-و/ "Wires of Discord: England, the Indo-European Telegraph Line and Ottoman-Iranian Border Conflicts"] by Soli Shahvar, ''Iran Namag'' Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2016. Article In Persian with [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.irannamag.com/en/article/سیم-نفاق-انگلیس،-خط-تلگراف-هندواروپا-و/  Google Translate English version] , or if link is unstable use [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate].
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/Armenian_Graves_in_Bushire.html Armenian Graves in Bushire] Chater Genealogy
*"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 [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdf]
*"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 [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdf]
*[http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Britain_and_Gulf_Shaikhdoms2009.pdf ''Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820 - 1971: The Politics of Protection'']  by James Onley 2009 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Qatar. socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk
:[http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Britain_and_Gulf_Shaikhdoms2009.pdf ''Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820 - 1971: The Politics of Protection'']  by James Onley 2009 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Qatar. socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/Armenian_Graves_in_Bushire.html Armenian Graves in Bushire] Chater Genealogy
*[https://ryderarchives.weebly.com/turco-persian-boundary.html "Turco-Persian Boundary Commission 1913-1914"] Charles Ryder of the Survey of India was appointed as the senior surveyor for the British working with the Commissioner and his Deputy alongside Russian colleagues and with representatives of the Turkish and Persian governments. He later became the Surveyor-General of India. Ryder Archives.
*[http://omangbnews.com/news/2016/01/24/former-british-ambassador-to-oman-discusses-oman-during-world-war-one "Former British Ambassador to Oman discusses Oman during World War One"] 24th January 2016 Oman GBnews. In 1913 a detachment of British Indian troops was for the first time deployed to Muscat. The 1920s were to be a decade in which British India became progressively more directly involved in Omani affairs.
*[http://omangbnews.com/news/2016/01/24/former-british-ambassador-to-oman-discusses-oman-during-world-war-one "Former British Ambassador to Oman discusses Oman during World War One"] 24th January 2016 Oman GBnews. In 1913 a detachment of British Indian troops was for the first time deployed to Muscat. The 1920s were to be a decade in which British India became progressively more directly involved in Omani affairs.
*[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/61744802.pdf  "Imperial Power and Dictatorship: Britain and the Rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926"] (pdf) by Michael Zirinsky  ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', 24 (1992), 639-64. core.ac.uk. Also available to read online on [https://www.jstor.org/stable/164440 JSTOR.org]. Register and read for free, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]
*[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/great-britain-vii Bibliography of books by  British Travelers To Persia] iranicaonline.org


===Maps===
===Maps===
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n414/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Left side] and  [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n415/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Right side]. From ''England and Russia in the East''  by Major-Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson 1875 Archive.org. See Historical bools online, below.
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n414/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Left side] and  [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n415/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Right side]. From ''England and Russia in the East''  by Major-Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson 1875 Archive.org. See Historical books online, below.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022744604.0x0000b6 1928 Map of Persia and Afghanistan]  Qatar Digital Library
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022744604.0x0000b6 1928 Map of Persia and Afghanistan]  Qatar Digital Library
*Also see below ''Gazetteer'' by Lorimer
*Also see below ''Gazetteer'' by Lorimer
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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
:Also see [[Gazetteers#Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia|Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia]]
:Also see [[Gazetteers#Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia|Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia]]
*[https://archive.org/details/cemet-middle-east-africa-images/mode/2up ''Monumental Inscriptions of Europeans in cemeteries in the Middle East and Africa''] Archive.org includes some  deaths in Iran.
*[https://archive.org/details/voyagestravellso00olea ''The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia. : Begun in the year M. DC. XXXIII. and finish'd in M. DC. XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching near the present times; in VII books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the Embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies ... in III books ..''] by Adam Olearius, 1669. [https://archive.org/stream/voyagestravellso00olea#page/316/mode/2up Part 2: The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo] page 317. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofsirjohn00char/page/n7/mode/2up ''The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies Through the Black-Sea and the Country of Colchis: the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, the coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the Third''] 1686 Archive.org. (Colchis variously described as Western Caucasus, eastern shores of the Black Sea,  parts of Georgia.<ref> [https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/morrittabstracts/26mor.htm faculty.ucr.edu]</ref>). [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31753.0001.001 Transcribed edition 1686]  EEBO-TCP umich.edu.  [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023512011.0x000001 1691 edition with Twenty Five Copper plates] Qatar Digital Library, book  from the British Library Printed Collections, ORW.1986.b.10
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.169543/page/n3/mode/2up ''Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia'']. 1927 reprint of the 1724 edition  ''A New and Accurate Description of Persia'', (there having been a 1720 edition with the title ''Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia'' translated by Edmund Lloyd), from the original French publications about travels in Persia 1669-1677, edited by  N M Penzer with a "Preface", and an "Introduction" by Sir Percy Sykes. 1927 Archive.org
:[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/chardin-sir-john Chardin, Sir John] Encyclopædia Iranica
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.  
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.  
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series,  2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31952 Volume 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series,  2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915.   [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506 Volume III]. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n231/mode/2up/ "Gombroon" or Bunder-abass, the chief port for merchandize in the Gulph of Persia] page 215 ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India'' by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. There is also a brief mention in the section on " Management of the Dutch"
*''Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies'' by M. Cornelius Le Bruyn 1737 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70528 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286322 Volume  2] Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA68 "Persia"] page 68 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1560095 ''Costume of Persia''] by A. Orlowski 1820. Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections (Collection Rare Books). Alexander Orlowski was a painter at the courts of the Tsars Alexander I and Nicolas I, who travelled to Persia in the company of Gaspar Drouville on a mission from Tsar Alexander I in 1812-1813.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210713042034/https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25434/lot/69/?category=list bonhams.com] April 2019, archived.</ref> ''Voyage en Perse, fait en 1812 et 1813'' by  Gaspard Drouville, Colonel de cavalerie au service de S. M. l'Empereur de toutes les Russies. With Plates. 2nd edition 1825, first published 1819 in St Petersburg. French language. [https://archive.org/details/gri_voyageenpers01drou/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1],  [https://archive.org/details/gri_voyageenpers02drou/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PfFaAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP18  Volume 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q0JCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9  Volume 2] Google Books.  
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books
**With an Appendix [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PA269 "Summary of the causes and events of the existing War between Russia and Persia 1826-27"] , page 269
**With an Appendix [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PA269 "Summary of the causes and events of the existing War between Russia and Persia 1826-27"] , page 269
:Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been  correctly rotated, the latter digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*''Sketches of Persia, from the Journals of a Traveller in the East'' [by Sir John Malcolm] 1827. [https://archive.org/details/sketchesofpersia01malcuoft Volume I],  [https://archive.org/details/sketchesofpersia02malcuoft Volume II]. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricaland00frasgoog ''An historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan''] by James B Fraser 1834 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricaland00frasgoog ''An historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan''] by James B Fraser 1834 Archive.org  
*''Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the king of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833'' by Lieutenant Alexander Burnes 1834 [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha01burnuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha02burnuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha03burnuoft Volume III] Archive.org
*''Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the king of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833'' by Lieutenant Alexander Burnes 1834 [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha01burnuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha02burnuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha03burnuoft Volume III] Archive.org
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through  Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan''  by Lieut. Arthur Conolly  1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through  Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan''  by Lieut. Arthur Conolly  1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA267 "Notes on Central Asia"] page 267 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA267 "Notes on Central Asia"] page 267 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books
*''Travels in Luristan and Arabistan'' by the Baron C A De Bode 1845. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinlurista01debouoft/page/n11/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelsinlurista02debo/page/n11/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org
*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government''.  Google Books
*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government''.  Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nBA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XXIV New Series: Historical And Other Information, Connected With The Province Of Oman, Muskat, Bahrein, And Other Places In The Persian Gulf. Etc.'' Includes ''Measures Adopted By The British Government For The Suppression Of The Slave Trade In The Persian Gulf''] 1856  
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nBA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XXIV New Series: Historical And Other Information, Connected With The Province Of Oman, Muskat, Bahrein, And Other Places In The Persian Gulf. Etc.'' Includes ''Measures Adopted By The British Government For The Suppression Of The Slave Trade In The Persian Gulf''] 1856  
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**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9dQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 "On Trade Routes between Turkestan and India"]  Report of a paper by Major General Sir H C Rawlinson. Page 10, ''Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 13 1868-1869''
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9dQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 "On Trade Routes between Turkestan and India"]  Report of a paper by Major General Sir H C Rawlinson. Page 10, ''Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 13 1868-1869''
**''England and Russia in the East; a series of papers on the political and geographical condition of Central Asia''  by Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Reprints of articles originally written 1849-1868 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023001039 1st edition 1875], [https://archive.org/details/englandandrussi03rawlgoog 2nd edition 1875] Archive.org.  Includes [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n414/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Left side], [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n415/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Right side].
**''England and Russia in the East; a series of papers on the political and geographical condition of Central Asia''  by Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Reprints of articles originally written 1849-1868 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023001039 1st edition 1875], [https://archive.org/details/englandandrussi03rawlgoog 2nd edition 1875] Archive.org.  Includes [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n414/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Left side], [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023001039#page/n415/mode/1up 1875 Map of Central Asia: Right side].
*"Travels in Persia" [1859-61] by Commander G Nelson Pomeroy Mason, Late I. N.  ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 3''  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137 pages 137-160], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273 pages 273-300], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA409 pages 409-438].  Google Books
*''Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years Residence in Persia'' by ‪Edward B. Eastwick , Late HM’s Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Tehran 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2kNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1  ‪Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume II] The author was appointed to Persia in 1860
*''Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years Residence in Persia'' by ‪Edward B. Eastwick , Late HM’s Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Tehran 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2kNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1  ‪Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume II] The author was appointed to Persia in 1860
*[http://archive.org/stream/throughpersiain00stewgoog#page/n12/mode/ ''Through Persia in disguise, with reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny''] by Colonel Charles E. Stewart, edited from his diaries by Basil Stewart. 1911 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/throughpersiain00stewgoog#page/n12/mode/ ''Through Persia in disguise, with reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny''] by Colonel Charles E. Stewart, edited from his diaries by Basil Stewart. 1911 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograph01stjo  ''Eastern Persia: An Account of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72. Volume I. The Geography  with Narratives by Majors St John, Lovett and Euan Smith''] 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograph01stjo  ''Eastern Persia: An Account of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72. Volume I. The Geography  with Narratives by Majors St John, Lovett and Euan Smith''] 1876 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/easternpersiaan02commgoog ''Volume II.  Zoology and Geology''] by W T Blanford. 1876 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/easternpersiaan02commgoog ''Volume II.  Zoology and Geology''] by W T Blanford. 1876 Archive.org
*''Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875'', by Colonel C.M. MacGregor. 1879. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408315?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285074 Pdf download] Digital Library of India; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] Hathi Trust Digital Library, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/40188 Pdf download] Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279306/page/n3 ''A General Sketch of the History of Persia''] by Clements R. Markham  1874. Archive.org. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023517264.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] digitised from British Library: Printed Collections ORW.1986.a.1835
* ''Telegraph and Travel: a narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines'' by Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, late Chief Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph 1874. [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.78382/mode/2up File 1, easier to read] Archive.org,  Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8017/page/n1/mode/2up File 2, with Map and perhaps better images] Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8017/page/n17/mode/1up Map]
*''Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875'', by Colonel C.M. MacGregor. 1879. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408315?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285074 Archive.org version] Public Library of India Collection.; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] Hathi Trust Digital Library, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40188 Archive.org version] Public Library of India Collection.
*''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878  [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict00geargoog ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983 ''Volume II''] [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict02geargoog ''Volume II'', from page 90 only, but illustrations may be better], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284626 Another file, ''Volume II''] Archive.org, including books from the Digital Library of India Collection.
*''In the Land of the Lion and Sun; or Modern Persia. Being Experiences of Life in Persia during a residence of Fifteen Years in various part of that country from 1866 to 1881'' by C J Wills, MD, late one of the Medical Officers of Her Majesty’s  Telegraph Department in Persia. [https://archive.org/details/inlandoflionsun00willrich 1883 edition], [https://archive.org/details/inlandoflionsun00williala 1891 New Edition] Archive.org.
*''Six Months in Persia'' by Edward Stack, Bengal Civil Service. 1882. [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi01staciala/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi02staciala/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II]. A journey from India to England commencing January 1881. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org
*''Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a Summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs'' by Mrs Bishop (Isabella L Bird) 1891. [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersia01birdiala Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersi00birdgoog  Volume II] Archive.org
*''Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a Summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs'' by Mrs Bishop (Isabella L Bird) 1891. [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersia01birdiala Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersi00birdgoog  Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/ayearamongstper00browgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Year Amongst the Persians: impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8''], by Edward Granville Browne 1893 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/ayearamongstper00browgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Year Amongst the Persians: impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8''], by Edward Granville Browne 1893 Archive.org
*''Persia and the Persian Question''  by George Nathaniel Curzon  (Lord Curzon) 1892 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210739  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210740 Volume II] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[http://archive.org/stream/imperialandasia01englgoog#page/n122/mode/2up "The Telegraph Department in Persia"] by CE Biddulph page 99 and [http://archive.org/stream/imperialandasia01englgoog#page/n358/mode/2up/  "The Telegraph Department in Persia, an Explanation"] by General A Houtum-Schindler page 321 ''The Asiatic Quarterly Review New Series Volume 3 January-April 1892'' Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/imperialandasia01englgoog#page/n122/mode/2up "The Telegraph Department in Persia"] by CE Biddulph page 99 and [http://archive.org/stream/imperialandasia01englgoog#page/n358/mode/2up/  "The Telegraph Department in Persia, an Explanation"] by General A Houtum-Schindler page 321 ''The Asiatic Quarterly Review New Series Volume 3 January-April 1892'' Archive.org
*''The Letters Of Gertrude Bell'' published 1927. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209780 Volume I]  contains a  short section in respect of her time in Persia in 1892. ([https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70327  Volume II])
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrav02firgoog ''Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc.'']  by Major-General Sir Charles Wilson 1895. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/Travel1895Murray Another file, pages all same colour] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/avariedlifearec00gordgoog ''A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902''] by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Gordon was appointed Military Attache and Oriental Secretary to Her Majesty’s Legation at Tehran 1889 until late 1892, from [https://archive.org/stream/avariedlifearec00gordgoog#page/n292/mode/2up page 242]. He also returned from time to time in a business capacity.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173850 ''Persia Revisited''] by General Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, formerly Military Attache and Oriental Secretary to Her Majesty’s Legation at Tehran. 1896 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77433 ''Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist''] by  Friedrich Rosen, 1930 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. The author was born  1856. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen Friedrich Rosen] Wikipedia.
*[http://archive.org/stream/tenthousandmiles00sykeuoft#page/iv/mode/2up ''Ten thousand miles in Persia or, Eight years in Iran''] by Major Percy Molesworth Sykes, HM Consul, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan 1902 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/tenthousandmiles00sykeuoft#page/iv/mode/2up ''Ten thousand miles in Persia or, Eight years in Iran''] by Major Percy Molesworth Sykes, HM Consul, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan 1902 Archive.org
:''A History of Persia'' by Lieut-Col P M Sykes 1915 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/historyofpersia01sykeuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088418466 Volume II]  
:''A History of Persia'' by Lieut-Col P M Sykes 1915 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/historyofpersia01sykeuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088418466 Volume II];
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45469/page/n9 Vol I, 2nd edition 1921]. Also available [https://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307 World Digital Library] Library of Congress. Images and maps may be better/ rotatable. Click on image to read online. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45470/page/n3 Vol II, 2nd edition 1921] Archive.org;
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499089/page/n7 Vol I, 3rd edition 1930], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544109/page/n11 Vol II, 3rd edition 1930] Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/persia005437mbp ''Persia''] by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org including
:[https://archive.org/details/persia005437mbp ''Persia''] by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org including
:*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up  "Persia and the Great War"] page 154
:*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up  "Persia and the Great War"] page 154
:A biography of Sir Percy Sykes: ''Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy'' by Antony Wynn 2003. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006930820 . Book review.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200229002533/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4730006/An-unsung-player-in-the-Great-Game.html Book review by  Noel Malcolm] of ''Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy'' by Antony Wynn. 9 March 2003. ''The Telegraph''</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/autumntourinwest00dura/page/n1 ''An Autumn Tour in Western Persia''] by E R Durand [Ella R. Durand, Lady]. 1902 Archive.org. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023486222.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been  correctly rotated. Digitised from British Library: Printed Collections T 10462
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027822679 ''The Persian problem: an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and the Bagdad railway''] by H J Whigham 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027822679 ''The Persian problem: an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and the Bagdad railway''] by H J Whigham 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/railwaysinwester00pico '"Railways in Western Asia"] by Lieutenant-Colonel H Picot Indian Army (Retired). ''Proceedings the Central Asian Society'', London 1904 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/railwaysinwester00pico '"Railways in Western Asia"] by Lieutenant-Colonel H Picot Indian Army (Retired). ''Proceedings the Central Asian Society'', London 1904 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ourrecentprogres00syke  "Our recent progress in Southern Persia, and its possibilities"] by H R Sykes ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1905. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ourrecentprogres00syke  "Our recent progress in Southern Persia, and its possibilities"] by H R Sykes ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1905. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/russianrailwayst00bere "Russian Railways towards India"] by Colonel  C E de la Poer Beresford ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' December 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/russianrailwayst00bere "Russian Railways towards India"] by Colonel  C E de la Poer Beresford ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' December 1905. Archive.org
*''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by    J G Lorimer, published 1908 to 1915. Volume I, Historical consists of  Part I being  the 'Arabian' portion of the History and  Part II being  the 'Persian' section of the History. Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts.
*[https://archive.org/details/some-problems-of-the-persian-gulf/mode/2up "Some Problems of the Persian Gulf"] by Lovat Fraser. ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society January 8, 1908'' (1908). Archive.org
**Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition are available to read online at [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590480 Hathi Trust Digital Library].  The volumes are Volume I: Historical: Part I (in two parts) and Volume II: Geographical and Statistical (in two parts)
*''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by    J G Lorimer, published 1908 to 1915. Volume I, Historical consists of  Part I being  the 'Arabian' portion of the History and  Part II being  the 'Persian' section of the History. Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts. Volume I: Historical: Part III Geneaological Tables and a Map. Volume II: Geographical and Statistical.
**Available on Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206962 Volume I Historical Part I], published 1915.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206963 Volume I Historical Part II]
****[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.206963/2015.206963.Gazetteer-Of#page/n1207/mode/2up Appendix R Books of reference] page 2700.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206964  Volume II Geographical And Statistical], published 1908.There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing.
**[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2552250 Volume I, Part III] of a reprint edition is available on the National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps  [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2552250 Catalogue entry]. It contains two maps (including the map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia) and genealogical trees.  
**Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition are available to read online at [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590480 Hathi Trust Digital Library].  The volumes are Volume I: Historical: Part I (in two volumes), (missing Historical: Part II, Part III) and Volume II: Geographical and Statistical (in two volumes)
**The Qatar Digital Library  contains copies of the original editions held at the British Library. Note: these webpages may be very slow to load at times
**The Qatar Digital Library  contains copies of the original editions held at the British Library. Note: these webpages may be very slow to load at times
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023575941.0x00000d Volume I: Historical: Part I] IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1. The 'Arabian' portion of the History
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023575941.0x00000d Volume I: Historical: Part I] IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1. The 'Arabian' portion of the History
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***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023463659.0x000001 1905-1908 Map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia]  compiled in the Foreign Office, Simla, by Lieut. F.F. Hunder IOR/L/PS/20/C91/6
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023463659.0x000001 1905-1908 Map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia]  compiled in the Foreign Office, Simla, by Lieut. F.F. Hunder IOR/L/PS/20/C91/6
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***Click on “About this record” for information about the contents. To select a particular page,  click on “View all items”.
**Three volumes of the ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by    J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, being Parts I and II  of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.
***Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133.  Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047
**[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2552250 Volume I, Part III] of a reprint edition is available on the National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps  [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2552250 Catalogue entry]. It contains two maps (including the map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia) and genealogical trees.
:British Library Untold lives blog [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/02/persian-gulf-tragedy-the-death-of-john-gordon-lorimer.html  ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer] 08 February 2014 (retrieved 18 June 2014)
:British Library Untold lives blog [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/02/persian-gulf-tragedy-the-death-of-john-gordon-lorimer.html  ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer] 08 February 2014 (retrieved 18 June 2014)
 
*Article "Indo British Trade with Persia" by Naoroz M Parveez  pages 12-29 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.530472 ''Imperial and asiatic quarterly review, and oriental and colonial record  1907 Third Series Volume 23''] Archive.org,  Digital Library of India Collection. There is a discussion of the paper from page 106.
*''Persia and the Persian Question''  (2 Volumes) by George Nathaniel Curzon  (Lord Curzon) 1892 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 ''The Frontiers Of Baluchistan''] by G P Tate 1909. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.   Full title ''The Frontiers of Baluchistan : Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan''.  [Seistan (Sistan) Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905]  
*Article "Indo British Trade with Persia" by Naoroz M Parveez  pages 12-29 ''Imperial and asiatic quarterly review, and oriental and colonial record  1907 Third Series Volume 23'' is available to  read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The article is computer pages 19-36. There is a discussion of the paper from page 106, computer page 113.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/170320 ''The Frontiers Of Baluchistan''] by G P Tate 1909. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title ''The Frontiers of Baluchistan : Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan''.  [Seistan (Sistan) Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905]  
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel  Sir T  Hungerford  Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909]  Archive.org. Contains chapters on the Persian Gulf and the  Perso-Baluch Boundary
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel  Sir T  Hungerford  Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909]  Archive.org. Contains chapters on the Persian Gulf and the  Perso-Baluch Boundary
:[https://archive.org/details/gatesofindiabei00hold  ''The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
:[https://archive.org/details/gatesofindiabei00hold  ''The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
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*[https://archive.org/details/bymountainlakepl00kennrich ''By Mountain, Lake and Plain : being a Sketch of Sport in Eastern Persia''] by Major R L Kennion 1911. Archive.org. In 1907 the author was appointed Consul for the Districts of Seistan and Kain in Iran. He had previously served in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh, with the  Indian Foreign and Political Department.  
*[https://archive.org/details/bymountainlakepl00kennrich ''By Mountain, Lake and Plain : being a Sketch of Sport in Eastern Persia''] by Major R L Kennion 1911. Archive.org. In 1907 the author was appointed Consul for the Districts of Seistan and Kain in Iran. He had previously served in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh, with the  Indian Foreign and Political Department.  
*[https://archive.org/details/persialandofmagi00nwee ''Persia the land of the magi, or, The home of the wise men; an historical and descriptive account of Persia from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its people, their manners, ... including Afghanistan and Beloochistan''] by Samuel K Nweeya 1913 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/persialandofmagi00nwee ''Persia the land of the magi, or, The home of the wise men; an historical and descriptive account of Persia from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its people, their manners, ... including Afghanistan and Beloochistan''] by Samuel K Nweeya 1913 Archive.org
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway''].  File created 8 May 1922. British Library: India Office Records IOR/L/PS/18/C208, in Qatar Digital Library . It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
*''The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf'' by Colonel S B Miles (Samuel Barrett) 1919. [https://archive.org/details/TheCountriesAndTribesOfThePersianGulfVolume1/page/n7/mode/2up  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/TheCountriesAndTribesOfThePersianGulfVolume2/page/n5/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org. Miles was of the Indian Army and Political Service, Consul-General of Muscat and Baghdad.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by  Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177611 ''A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiari Land''] by the late Elizabeth N. Macbean Ross, M.B.; Ch.B 1921 Archive.org.  [http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/ross_enm.html Biographical details] 1878-1915.  Scotland’s War. She died of typhus doing volunteer medical work in Serbia during WW1.
*[https://archive.org/details/captainshakespea0000wins/page/n5/mode/2up ''Captain Shakespear : a Portrait''] by H V F Winstone 1976.  William Henry Irvine Shakespear born Multan 29 October 1878,  joined the Political Department in India  and in 1904  was posted to the Persian port of Bandar Abbas, the youngest Consul in the Indian administration. He was killed 24 January 1915, at which time he was Political Officer on Special Duties in Arabia. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/ThePersianGulf.AnHistoricalSketchFromTheEarliestTimesToTheBeginningOfTheTwentiet/page/n4/mode/2up ''The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century''] by Lt. Col. Sir Arnold T Wilson 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283609/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org
:[http://repository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1865  ''Persia''] by Sir Arnold Wilson  1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/persia-wilson-1932/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Missing some of the front matter pages.
*First World War period and later: British Library India Office Records  on Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000143 ''Despatch by Brigadier-General Sir P. M. Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.M.G., Inspector-General, South Persia Rifles and Commanding British Mission Escort in Persia on Minor Operations in Southern Persia. From 7th November 1917 to 31st March 1918''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/29
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000144 ''Reports On Minor Operatons In South Persia Under Brigadier-General Sir P. M. Sykes, K.C.I.E, C.M.G., from May to July 1918''] by General Staff India. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/30
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000145 ''Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken from 1917 to 1921 in North and North East Persia''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/31
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000146 ''Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from November 1919 to November 1921''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/32
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000147 ''Report on minor operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from the 28th March to the 25th June 1917'']  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/33. A despatch from Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes, Inspector General, South Persia Rifles, to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla, which provides details of five minor military operations undertaken against tribes in southern Persia. Five sketch maps appear at the end (ff 9-11).
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000148 ''Despatch by Lieutenant-General R. Wapshare, C.B., C.S.I. on the Organization and Working of the East Persian Line of Communications. From 1st April 1918 to 15th January 1919''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/34
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000149 ''Report on the Working of the Line of Communication and on the Withdrawal of the British Military Mission in East Persia, 1919-20'']. General Staff India. 1921,  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/35
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00014a ''Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921'']  (1921) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015d ''Handbook of the Persian Army''] (1925) produced by the General Staff Branch, India, for the use of Government of India officials. There is an appendix containing a glossary of names of ranks and branches within the Persian Army (folio 58). Between folios 59-68 are illustrative plates featuring pictures of officers' badges of rank and of various members of the Persian military dressed in their full uniform according to their position in the Army. The volume contains an index (folios 69-70) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/37
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015e ''Glossary of Persian military terms, with Appendix I, containing ranks of the Persian Army; Appendix II, containing musketry terms'']  (1926) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/38
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015f ''Notes on the Iranian Army''] (1940) produced by the General Staff in India. The purpose of the volume was to provide Government of India officials with useful information about the Iranian Army, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/39
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000160 ''Persia Intelligence Report. May, 1946'' [Part V<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  produced by Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty, May 1946. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/40
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway''].  File created 8 May 1922.  IOR/L/PS/18/C208. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000019 ''Where's Where in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia''] by General Staff, India 1916 IOR/L/PS/20/84 .  The catalogue description states "The volume serves as an index of places featured on Survey of India degree sheets 2C, 2D, 2G, 2H, 2K, 1L, 2O, 2P, 3A, 3E, 3I, 3J, 3M, 3N, 10A, 10B, and 10C. The places are arranged alphabetically and give the degree sheet reference".  Note: Maps [degree sheets] are not included, however the following less detailed maps may '''possibly''' give an indication of location if  numbering was consistent over different series.  [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/index_map.jpg Index to the Sheets of the India and Adjacent Countries Series] [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/Sheet-2-baghdad-1917.jpg Sheet 2], [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/sheet-10-bushire-persia_arabia_and_turkey_in_asia-1915.jpg  Sheet 10]. From [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/ Topographic maps],  lib.utexas.edu.
*:[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100040685807.0x000002 1915 edition] IOR/R/15/5/383
*[https://archive.org/details/bycamelcartopeac0000powe/page/n7/mode/2up ''By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne''] by E Alexander Powell 1939 edition, first published 1923. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Alexander_Powell E. Alexander Powell] Wikipedia. He was an American war correspondent during WW1, and author.
* ''Old Routes Of Western Iran'' by  Sir Aurel Stein 1940. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x0002d8 ''Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service''] by Sir John Richard Cotton (b 1909). British Library Mss Eur F226/7 . Qatar Digital Library. A photocopy of a typewritten draft written c 1983. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135947/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383640/Sir-John-Cotton.html.  ''The Telegraph'' Obituary 2002]. After spending his childhood in India, he returned in 1929, initially in the  8th (King George's Own) Light Cavalry, then joined the Indian Political Service in 1934 where he served in the Persian Gulf and in Aden, Addis Ababa in Abyssinia  then a  series of Indian princely states. After Independence he joined the British Foreign Service.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone''].  British Library Mss Eur F226/28 Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written c 1980 by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially  in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s.  He then joined the  Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his  later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details  are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2828/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.227014/mode/2up ''Russia And The West In Iran 1918-1948''] by George Lenczowski 1949.  Chapters One and particularly Two, include the British involvement. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/thearabianfrontierofthebritishrajmerchantsrulersandthebritishinthenineteenthcenturygulf/mode/2up ''The Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth Century Gulf''] by James Onley 2007. Archive.org.
:Article [https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa"] by James Onley. ''Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009'' socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.108793/page/n7/mode/2up ''Colloquial English-Persian Dictionary in the Roman Character''] by Lieut.-Colonel D C Phillott 1914. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library Of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/thepersianlanguagereubenlevy_47_I/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Persian Language''] by  Reuben Levy 1951 Archive.org


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 14:46, 4 May 2024

Iran was previously known as Persia. This page also includes the Persian Gulf and surrounding areas.

Also see

FIBIS resources

Records

  • See FIBIS resources above
  • See General Register Office for births, marriages and deaths, including details of Findmypast and Ancestry databases. In particular Findmypast includes TNA FO 560/1 "Bushire, Iran: Register Of Births, Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths 1849-1895", being indexes and also including the images in "British Armed Forces and Overseas Browse". Also some records from "Various Consulates, Iran (formerly Persia)" and some "Persian Gulf" locations.
  • Society of Genealogists, London.
    • The Society of Genealogists’ now archived page Geographical Resources Overseas: Iran states that it has records for Iran: Teheran: Akbarabad Prot Cemetery, British B 1811-1969
    • A search for Iran in the Society of Genealogists' Catalogue includes the following entry: Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44
  • "Graves of Europeans in the Armenian Cemetery at Isfahan" by T. W. Haig The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (July, 1919), pp. 321-352. Archive.org.
  • “Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia” by Denis Wright from the journal Iran published by the British Institute of Persian Studies Vol. 36, (1998) pp. 165-173, Vol. 37, (1999), pp. 173-174, Vol. 39, (2001), pp. 293-298 jstor.org. However, access through jstor.org to the entire articles is subject to a fee, unless you have access through your library. The text, but no photographs, for the 1999 article, pages 173-174, may be seen here scroll down, download appears possible also. (epdf.pub).
The journal Iran is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01017595572
See also Armenian Graves in Bushire from Chater Genealogy which refers to these articles and records. Another source for some transcription from a Wright article.[1]
The original records are now in the London Metropolitan Archives DL/E/E/056/MS11215A (previously in the Guildhall) and are records from the Mission Chapel, Julfa. The chapel appears to have been attached to the Church Missionary Society. Catalogue entry or Search the Catalogue.
There are also some records for Iran in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch

FIBIS resources

John Isaacson, who at the time was described as a "Sergeant, RE", arrived in Persia on 11 November 1863 and was posted to the Persian section of the IETD. He died in Bushire in 1892.

External links

"Wires of Discord: England, the Indo-European Telegraph Line and Ottoman-Iranian Border Conflicts" by Soli Shahvar, Iran Namag Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2016. Article In Persian with Google Translate English version , or if link is unstable use Google Translate.
  • Armenian Graves in Bushire Chater Genealogy
  • "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 original pdf
Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820 - 1971: The Politics of Protection by James Onley 2009 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Qatar. socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk

Maps

Historical books online

Also see Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia
Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia. 1927 reprint of the 1724 edition A New and Accurate Description of Persia, (there having been a 1720 edition with the title Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia translated by Edmund Lloyd), from the original French publications about travels in Persia 1669-1677, edited by N M Penzer with a "Preface", and an "Introduction" by Sir Percy Sykes. 1927 Archive.org
Chardin, Sir John Encyclopædia Iranica
A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. Volume 1, Volume II, Volume III. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
Also available Qatar Digital Library where the illustrations have been correctly rotated, the latter digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel C M Macgregor 1872. Qatar Digital Library.
Volume II. Zoology and Geology by W T Blanford. 1876 Archive.org
Persia Revisited by General Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, formerly Military Attache and Oriental Secretary to Her Majesty’s Legation at Tehran. 1896 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
A History of Persia by Lieut-Col P M Sykes 1915 Archive.org Volume I, Volume II;
Vol I, 2nd edition 1921. Also available World Digital Library Library of Congress. Images and maps may be better/ rotatable. Click on image to read online. Vol II, 2nd edition 1921 Archive.org;
Vol I, 3rd edition 1930, Vol II, 3rd edition 1930 Archive.org.
Persia by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org including
A biography of Sir Percy Sykes: Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy by Antony Wynn 2003. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006930820 . Book review.[4]
British Library Untold lives blog ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer 08 February 2014 (retrieved 18 June 2014)
The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
Political Frontiers and Boundary Making by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
"Between the Tigris and the Indus" by Colonel Sir Thomas H Holdich The Geographical Review Volume IV September 1, 1917 Archive.org
The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Lt. Col. Sir Arnold T Wilson 1928. 2nd file Archive.org
Persia by Sir Arnold Wilson 1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". Archive.org mirror version. Missing some of the front matter pages.
Article "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley. Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009 socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.

References

  1. Burials and Memorials of the British in Bushire (Bushehr) abushahr.blogspot.com.
  2. faculty.ucr.edu
  3. bonhams.com April 2019, archived.
  4. Book review by Noel Malcolm of Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy by Antony Wynn. 9 March 2003. The Telegraph
  5. Book review Sunday Times (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947 trove.nla.gov.au