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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Level [36] Series

451. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

452. IOR/R/15/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2
Title:
Political Agency, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The political (IOR/R/15/2) and judicial (IOR/R/15/3) series of the Political Agency, Bahrain, make up the largest collection in the IOR/R/15 group. The arrangement of the IOR/R/15/2 series reflects the three branches into which the Agency was divided: namely the Confidential Office 1899-1951, th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1899-1953
Extent:
2022 files

453. IOR/R/15/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/3
Title:
Political Agency, Bahrain: Court Records
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain Court Records are records of cases heard by the Courts established under the Bahrain Order in Council. Unlike the Court records of Kuwait and Muscat, they have survived in great numbers and contain a wealth of social and economic data, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1950
Extent:
11,586 files

454. IOR/R/15/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4
Title:
Residency Agency, Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
Very few files have survived from the Residency Agency, probably because there was little methodical record keeping before the appointment of the British Political Officer in 1939. The series contains only seventeen files dating from 1930 to 1951. Subjects covered include boundaries, Sharjah Air ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
17 files (1878 folios)

455. IOR/R/15/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5
Title:
Political Agency, Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait Agency archives cover the period from the establishment of the post in 1904 to 1949, the last year for which files were returned to the India Office Records. The papers were originally numbered in three separate series. First Series files, 1904-1929 (R/15/5/1-108) contain considerabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
397 files and volumes

456. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

457. IOR/R/19/1-16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/1-16
Title:
Records of the Agency and Deputy Agency in Egypt
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the East India Company and later the India Office; the Government of Bombay; the subordinate Agents at Cairo, Suez, Mokha, Jidda and Atfe, and with native agents at Cosseir and Kena; officials of the Egyptian Government; the Egyptian Transit Administration; officers concerned ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832-1870
Extent:
16 volumes

458. IOR/R/19/17-24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/17-24
Title:
Records of the Packet Agency at Cairo
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the Agent in Egypt, the Packet Agent at Suez, and the Agent at Atfe; also with various other official persons and bodies and, from 1858, with the Egyptian Transit Administration in Cairo
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1859
Extent:
8 volumes

459. IOR/R/19/25-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/25-27
Title:
Records of the Packet Agency at Suez
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1869
Extent:
3 volumes

460. IOR/R/20/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/20/A
Title:
Settlement of Aden, 1838-1937; and Protectorate Affairs, 1878-1892
Scope & Content:
These include records created by the Political Agency, 1839-54, the Political Residency, 1854-1932, the Chief Commissionership, 1932-37, and their dependent offices and agencies. The series are listed chronologically within the two areas of the Settlement of Aden and the Aden Protectorate. Ther...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1937
Extent:
c 5063 files / volumes

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