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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Place Zanzibar, Zanzibar Island, Africa

1. IOR/F/4/1880/79880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1880/79880
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Principal ports of-’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to attempts by the Government of Bombay to suppress the trade in enslaved ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
23 Sep 1837-28 Feb 1841
Extent:

1 item (150 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/155
Title:
'Book No 219. From November 1856 and January 1857 To July 1861'
Scope & Content:
Volume regarding affairs in Muscat relating to Syed Torkee [Turkī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd] of Sohar's rebellious actions against Syed Soweynee [Thuwaynī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd]. The volume discusses the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] Chief's attempts at spreading dissention in Oman; the involvement of their br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857-9 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195
Title:
'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the Sultan of Muscat, Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd on 19 March 1891. The new treaty was modelled on a recently concluded treaty with Zanzibar. It superseded the Treaty of Commerce of May 1839 and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1887-26 Jun 1905
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1338

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1338
Title:
File 9/6 I Arms & Ammunition. Rules and Regulations re- import of arms and ammunition into Foreign Countries
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Hugh Weightman, the British Political Agent in Bahrain, with Samuel Burnside B McElderry, Chief Secretary to the Government of Zanzibar, and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the control of importation of le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 May 1939-17 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)