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161. IOR/L/PS/12/3924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924
Title:
Coll 30/186 'Oil: Koweit Territorial Waters. Jurisdiction over the sub-soil beneath the sea. Off-Shore Oil in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the interest of the Kuwait Oil Company in exploring for submarine oil deposits beyond the limits of Kuwait's territorial waters, and the issue of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf generally, in the light of the United States Government's proclamation of 1945 concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1939-12 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (366 folios)

162. IOR/L/PS/12/3926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3926
Title:
Coll 30/188 'Kuwait: Mining for Sulphur by Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and a new company, the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited (formed from American interests in the Kuwait Oil Company), to explore for deposits of sulphur in Kuwait. Sulphur was u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1940-28 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

163. IOR/L/PS/12/3946

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3946
Title:
Coll 30/206 'Bahrein Naval Wireless Station.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Naval Wireless Station at Bahrain. The papers include: correspondence from the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf concerning the installation of a wireless receiving and transmitting set at the Jufair naval...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1940-8 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

164. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

165. IOR/L/PS/12/4115A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4115A
Title:
Coll 35/12(2) 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office and telephones; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme; Cable and Wireless Agreement with Shaikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office and mail delivery in Kuwait. The file contains: Commercial agreement between ruler of Kuwait and Cable and Wireless Limited, 1941 Construction of wireless station at Kuwait, administered by Cable and Wireless Limited, 1941 Interruption of postal s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1941-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (360 folios)

166. IOR/L/PS/12/4126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4126
Title:
Coll 35/20 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain; installation of a telephone communication between the wireless station of Imperial and International Communications Ltd at Manamah and the landing ground at Muharraq'
Scope & Content:
The initial part of the file concerns the negotiations for the installation of a telephone service between the wireless station of Imperial and International Communications Ltd at Manamah and the landing ground at Muharraq, in 1934-35. The second part contains correspondence from 1944, focusing ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1934-21 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (214 folios)

167. IOR/L/PS/12/4132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4132
Title:
Coll 35/25(2) 'Telegraphs, Postal & Wireless. Broadcasting of anti-British propaganda in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, N.W.F. and Central Asia, etc. Broadcasts in Arabic by B.B.C.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the timings, content and tone of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts and the reception that they received in the region, especially in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Nov 1937-11 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (552 folios)

168. IOR/L/PS/18/B127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B127
Title:
Koweit
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Colin George Campbell, 31 December 1900, about Koweit [Kuwait], including a brief historical introduction and detailed information for the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. Topics discussed include Mubarak al-Sabah [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] having murdered his fat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1900
Extent:

6 folios

169. IOR/L/PS/20/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/235
Title:
‘ARAB TRIBES OF THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat [vilayet], and is a British intelligence document on the tribes living in the area around the city of Baghdad. It was compiled in July 1918 by the Arab Bureau, Baghdad (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department es...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (147 folios)

170. IOR/L/PS/20/C57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C57
Title:
'Oman. Map of and Reports on by Major Ross'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of the following: memorandum on tribal divisions in the Principality of Oman to accompany table of tribes, by Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent at Muscat (folios 2-3); table entitled 'Principal Tribes of Oman', signed by Ross (folio 4). The table is divided between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

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