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*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-02/1329547727 post] and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-02/1329682581 thread: IETD in Persia ] . This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-02/1329753849 post] says “I found Denis Wright’s book ''The English amongst the Persians'' invaluable for background to the tortuous life in Persia. First edition published 1977 as ''The English amongst the Persians during the Qajat period, 1787-1921'', available at the [[British Library]]. 2nd Edition: [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cNXdNrH6L-oC&printsec=frontcover ''The English amongst the Persians: Imperial Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iran''] Preview Google Books*[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page20-RoyalEngineerCaptainTeheranPersia.html 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 [http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/ 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 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?idered.pdf+British+Agency+Baghdad+1890s&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj2sXzwFwN4gOHMx5z5ibUCaO5oC4NoPg0MPdQipi8Jg4_iqHfzFqctlZE-sMa6pC9UXe5StHHavd2BZdWN_49UADUt-8fRqvB5mBzZJBZov7QLhW5vn2FOWI_TIEIYNbUodDXR&sig=AHIEtbSejff11oEcC0XAzsRkhzsli2P_Hw html version], [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdf]
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*[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]
*''Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820 - 1971'' by James Onley 2009 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:owrIIx2FWKkJ:www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/qatar/cirs/BritainandtheGulfShaikhdomsCompleteFile.pdf+Britain+and+the+Gulf+Shaikhdoms,+1820+-+1971&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShomNxAF-mzzn8rEBggmw_35cb7bAMxHfIdO8piv99FkMzW_eJzTROAaYP9gOdZNW-I4zuiKSMUrKwlaGABp72XuWjOMPwXQmiFDy6veqdJKpE9PtIP2E3Uk2SaMqpQ_8meu_9D&sig=AHIEtbQfShgsw1ijMacQDyac4E5h04qPtA html version] ,[http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=110431&lng=en download a pdf ]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/Armenian_Graves_in_Bushire.html Armenian Graves in Bushire] Chater Genealogy
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