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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Ministry of Food, 1939-1955

1. IOR/L/PS/12/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/557
Title:
Ext 5000/41(7) 'PERSIAN SITUATION: MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS ON WHEAT SITUATION'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the production and supply of wheat in Persia. The discussion in the file includes: the UK-US coordination efforts and their relationship with supplies from the Soviet Union UK-US staffing of personnel in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1942-6 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (447 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/787
Title:
Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-194...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/788
Title:
Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company. The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/951
Title:
Ext 4741/44 'Shipment of supplies to Muscat: Mozambique sugar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding imports of sugar, tea and other commodities from Mozambique to Muscat, and their onward export to Persia. The file covers considerations of increased restrictions on such imports and potential withholding of tea from India in order to uphold rationing. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1944-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/779

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/779
Title:
‘File 29/21 - III FOOD SUPPLY RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about arrangements for the purchase and shipping of rice imports mainly from African and South American countries, for consumption in Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai, Sharjah and other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, where rice and other cereals continued to be in scarce supply ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1948-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (358 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/782

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/782
Title:
‘File 29/22 II CEREALS FOR SHARJAH AND DUBAI’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about supplies of wheat and barley for importation and local consumption in Dubai, Sharjah and the other Trucial Coast sheikhdoms, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when food grains and wheat in particular were in short supply worldwide and subjec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1944-23 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)