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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Name Baghdad Railway, 1903-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/48/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3 'Koweit:- Bunder Shweikh. Foreshore Case 1907.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the circumstances leading up to the grant of a lease in October 1907 by Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Koweit [Kuwait] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. The principal correspondents are the Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1901-11 Mar 1908
Extent:

147 folios

2. IOR/R/15/1/610-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610-615
Title:
File 73: Routes and Railways in Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and other documents relating to the planning and building of the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra. Questions addressed within the files are those of ownership and control (contested between Germany, Britain, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1911-1919
Extent:

6 files and volumes (1107 folios)