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931. IOR/R/15/2/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/603
Title:
File 20/1 III Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. The volume includes correspondence between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Bahrain Political Agent (Hugh Weightman) and naval representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1938-4 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

932. IOR/R/15/2/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/604
Title:
File 20/1 IV Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. A significant portion of the papers relate to allegations of slave trading into Qatar. In a letter dated 14 October 1945, Lady Kathleen Simon, a prominent representative of the Anti-Slavery Society, draw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1945-20 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (275 folios)

933. IOR/R/15/2/605

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605
Title:
‘File 21/1 I Zubarah’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence concerning the ongoing dispute between the Rulers of Bahrain and Qatar over the sovereignty of Zubarah and the surrounding area on the Qatar Peninsula. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly; Lieuten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1944-15 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

934. IOR/R/15/2/605-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:
File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1949
Extent:
11 files and volumes (478 folios)

935. IOR/R/15/2/607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/607
Title:
‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the lifting of travel restrictions imposed in 1944 by the British authorities in the Gulf on three members of the Darwish family from Qatar – Jasim bin Darwish, Abdulla bin Darwish and Abdur-Rahman bin Darwish. Correspondents in the file include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946-20 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

936. IOR/R/15/2/608

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/608
Title:
'21/5 QATAR HOSPITAL'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the construction of the first hospital at Doha, Qatar, in the mid-1940s. Correspondents in this file include: Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain; E P Donaldson, India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1946-8 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

937. IOR/R/15/2/609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/609
Title:
'QATAR SUCCESSION'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the appointment of an heir to Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thanī, Ruler of Qatar, following the illness and death of his son and heir-apparent, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī. Details include: Ḥamad's illness and his role in the settlement of the conflict over Zubarah (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1944-28 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

938. IOR/R/15/2/610

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/610
Title:
‘21/8 PRESENTATION OF GIFTS FOR SALEH AL MANAH REPRESENTATIVE OF SHAIKH OF QATAR’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the presentation of gifts by the Political Agent at Bahrain to Saleh al Mana, representative of the Shaikh of Qatar. The gifts are an appreciation of the hospitality provided by Saleh al Mana during the Political Agent’s visits to Qatar. Correspondent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1947-15 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

939. IOR/R/15/2/614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/614
Title:
‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the abduction and enslavement of a young man from Muscat, who was found working at Petroleum Concessions Limited’s (PCL) oilfields in Qatar, and attempts by the Political Agent and others, including Saleh Al Mana [Ṣāliḥ Āl Māni‘], a representative of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1948-27 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

940. IOR/R/15/2/615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/615
Title:
‘File 21/22 Customs’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to Jasim bin Mohammed al Baghdadi (also referred to in the file as Jasim bin Mohammed al Hadla), suspected of accounting malpractice while working at the customs department in Qatar. The file includes: copies of Qatar accounts for the month of Dhil Qa’d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1949-26 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

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