File 9/7 Shipping, Naval & Marine: Muscat Lighthouse and Leading Light
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the maintenance and improvement of the lighthouse and other lighting at Muscat. The papers deal with a number of matters, including: a proposal to charge a levy on all shipping in the Gulf for the use of lighting and buoying; requests for replacement parts for lighting ...
File 9/C-6 Shipping, Naval and Marine: Muscat lighthouse and leading lights
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the maintenance of the lighthouse and leading lights at Muscat. The papers deal with orders for supplies and parts, administration of costs, and reports of lights not burning. The correspondence comes from: the Political Agency, Muscat; the Port Direct...
‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. A. PASSPORTS. (1) Persian passports regulations effecting Muscat subjects.’
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The file contains correspondence related to the Iranian Government’s order known as the Tehran order, on treating people arriving at Persian ports from Bahrain, Muscat, Dubai and Oman as Persian subjects. The file also includes petitions raised by Muscat subjects whose passports were seized by t...
‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. (2) Impounding of British passports by local Customs.’
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The file contains two copies of a letter by Ralph Ponsonby Watts, the Political Agent, Muscat to Sayyid Shihab bin Faysal Al Bu Sa‘idi, representative of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman regarding the impounding of British subjects’ passports by the Muscat State officials.
File 11/1 Muscat Administration Reports and related correspondence
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This volume consists of correspondence concerning the Administration Annual Reports of the Muscat Political Agency and of the Muscat Infantry for the years 1942-43 to 1945-46 and contains copies of all the reports. The volume features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent ...
File 11/1 III Muscat Administration Reports and related correspondence
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This file consists of correspondence concerning the Annual Muscat Administration Annual Report for the years 1947-48 and contains a copy of the report. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent and Consul, Muscat; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; t...
File 11/20 Gwadur Political Affairs (Defilement of Aga Khani Graveyard)'
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This volume contains papers and correspondence relating to communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur Gwadar between members of the Khoja/Aga Khani Ismaili community, who were British subjects, and the Baluchi community, who were subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Specifically, much...
This volume contains papers and correspondence (including a large number of telegrams) related to the outbreak of communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur [Gwadar] in March 1929 between Khojas/Aga Khanis [Ismailis] who were British subjects, and Baluchis, who were subjects of the Sultan o...
This volume contains papers related to the aftershocks of communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur [Gwadar] in March 1929 between Khojas/Aga Khanis [Ismailis] who were British subjects, and Baluchis, who were subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. During the troubles, which followed a...
File 11/29 Policy of H.M.Government regarding Arabian affairs
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This file contains correspondence between government and military officials concerning British Government policy on the 'Arab side' of the Persian Gulf and the impact of the formation of the Arab League on the Arab states of the Gulf. In addition to this correspondence, the file contains the fol...
