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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Name Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, 1937-1947

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2082

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2082
Title:
Coll 6/16 'Future of: Royal Family. Probable happenings on the death of Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the future of Arabia in the event of his death. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Und...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1931-7 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (218 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2151
Title:
Coll 6/78 'Italian propaganda amongst the Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents steps considered and taken by the British to combat reported Italian anti-British propaganda and disseminate pro-British propaganda in the Middle East and beyond. The file's principal correspondents are the following: His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome (Eric Drummond); the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
2 Jul 1936-2 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (228 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2871

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2871
Title:
Coll 17/15(3) 'Relations with Persia: Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration'
Scope & Content:
Communications from HM Ambassador to Tehran and HM Ambassador to Iraq, reporting on the signing and ratification of the Treaty and Protocol of Frontiers (4 July 1937), the Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration (18 July 1937), and the Treaty for the Settlement of Differences by Peaceful Means (24 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1937-9 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2894

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2894
Title:
Coll 17/31 'Iraq. Posts under Iraqi Govt. filled by British subjects.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to job vacancies under the Government of Iraq being filled by British subjects. It includes papers concerning the following vacancies: Adviser to the Ministry of Economics and Communications. Chief Engineer to the Irrigation Department. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1937-19 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2976

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2976
Title:
Coll 20/18(2) 'Muscat: Oil: Political Agreement and Exchange of Notes'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, notes, and minutes regarding the political agreement connected to the oil concession agreement between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL). Due to disagreement over the Sultan's obligations to British companies and the British Government when it ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1937-10 Jan 1944
Extent:
1 file (274 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/692

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/692
Title:
'B. 56. Confidential 86/14 - v. BAHRAIN UNALLOTED AREA.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the India Office (Roland Tennyson Peel, John Percival Gibson), the Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1939-2 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/696

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/696
Title:
'Confidential 86/22 - i A.78. GWADAR OIL'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence in English and Arabic between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts), the India Office (John Percival Gibson, John Charles Walton), the Secretary to the Government of India, Ext...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/R/15/2/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/706
Title:
‘File 28/17-B Action to be taken in the event of an entry into the war by Japan’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers relating both to Japan’s anticipated entry into the Second World War, and eventual entry in the wake of the Japanese Navy’s attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Correspondents in the file include the Political Agen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1940-14 Dec 1941
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/768
Title:
File 29/18 II Tea and coffee: Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-24 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

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