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1. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2856

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2856
Title:
Coll 17/8(4) 'Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens: litigation in Iraq Courts regarding the Faddaghiyah estate'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2855. It contains papers regarding legal cases brought against the heirs of Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ (the Shaikh of Kuwait) by Abdullah bin Issa Pasha Al Zuhair, concerning the ownership of the date garden properties known as the Faddaghiyeh, the Bashiye...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1937-14 Sep 1943
Extent:
1 file (591 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/681

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/681
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/9-I OIL REFINERY BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY. C-64'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the India Office (Maurice Clauson), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Hamilton R Ballantyne), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch) , the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), and the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1935-20 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1512

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1512
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/15 Correspondence with and from the Director of Customs, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly received from but also sent to, the Director of Customs in Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier). The majority of the correspondence is official, and relates to miscellaneous trade and customs matters in Bahrain. Aside from general correspondence, memoranda and notice...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and German
Date Range:
20 Apr 1927-27 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1920

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1920
Title:
File F/1 Correspondence with the Municipalities regarding Judicial Matters
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters, memos, budgetary ledgers primarily on judicial disputes between shopkeepers and the Manama Municipality. The disputes mainly pertain to the non-payment of Municipal Taxes. Few folios refer to disputes between individuals with the Manama Municipality arbitrating.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1931-13 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/135
Title:
File 2/4 I TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1914-12 Dec 1930
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/136
Title:
File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1931-19 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/137
Title:
File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. A particular taxation system called Istihlak (consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1932-26 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/138
Title:
File 2/4 IV TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. The correspondence is mainly about the taxation imposed on the gardens by the Iraqi Government. British offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-1 May 1939
Extent:

1 volume (269 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/139
Title:
‘File 2/4 V ISTIHLAK TAX’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence by the Political Resident, Bushire, to the Political Agent, Kuwait, asking him to remind the Shaikh of Kuwait to prepare a report related to the Istihlak (consumption) tax he paid on the produce of his date gardens in Iraq in 1938 and 1939. The Shaikh wrote back p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1940-12 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)