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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/154
Title:: File 2/5 XV 'SHAIKH'S DATE GARDENS'
Scope & Content:: This file is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/153. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding lawsuits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties, and efforts on beh...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Dec 1943-16 Apr 1947
Extent:: 1 file (364 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/155
Title:: File 2/5 XVI 'SHAIKH'S DATE GARDENS'
Scope & Content:: This file is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/154. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding lawsuits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties, and efforts on beh...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 15 Apr 1947-26 Dec 1949
Extent:: 1 file (335 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:: [Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:: The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12 Feb 1909
Extent:: 1 file (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/157
Title:: [Un-numbered file] 'Shaikh Nasir ibn Mubarak Al Sabah, 1916-18; miscellaneous papers concerning Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens in Iraq; copies of pleading before the Iraq courts and lawyers' opinions'
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and legal papers regarding lawsuits brought against the heirs of Shaikh Mubarak Āl Ṣabāḥ (the Emir of Kuwait) by the members of the Al Zuhair family, regarding the ownership of garden properties in Basra. The file contains a small amount of correspondence dated...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Nov 1916-2 Jun 1938
Extent:: 1 file (229 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/159
Title:: File 2/7 'Legislation to forbid Kuwait nationals to buy property in Iraq; and conscription'
Scope & Content:: Correspondence regarding an enquiry submitted to the Political Agent at Kuwait by the Shaikh of Kuwait (Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ), asking him to confirm whether the Government of Iraq had passed legislation preventing Kuwaiti subjects from owning land in Basra or from registering it with the Tapu ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1933-6 Apr 1946
Extent:: 1 file (82 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/161
Title:: File 2/8 II Kuwait water supply from the Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence among British officials in the Persian Gulf and London, as well as the Kuwaiti Government on various means of securing a reliable supply of water for Kuwait. The papers vary from proposal for a condensing plant, and possible pipeline from Basra in Iraq, to obtai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1943-14 Jun 1949
Extent:: 1 file (230 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/162
Title:: File 2/9 Anti-British propaganda
Scope & Content:: This file consists of correspondence between British officials in Iraq and the Persian Gulf discussing Arabic language newspaper extracts and articles on the British presence in the Middle East. Most of the papers discuss ways of countering or restricting the circulation of anti-British, anti-col...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Nov 1933-22 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (370 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/170
Title:: File 3/1 I Seizure or Detention of Kuwait sailing craft by Persians
Scope & Content:: This file relates to several cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized or detained by the Persian authorities. The file consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and various British diplomatic officials. Most of the correspondence concerns the circumstances of the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 21 Dec 1932-21 Oct 1936
Extent:: 1 volume (248 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/170-178
Title:: File 3: Kuwait/Iran Relations
Scope & Content:: The Kuwait/Iran relations sub-sub-series concerns Kuwait's and Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). Three of the files relate to cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized, and in some cases detained, by the Persian authorities. Other matter...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:: 1928-1949
Extent:: 9 files and volumes (1308 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/171
Title:: File 3/1 II Seizure or detention of Kuwait Sailing Craft by Persians Vol. 2.
Scope & Content:: This file documents a series of investigations carried out by various British officials into reports of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized and detained by Iranian authorities. Most of the file consists of copies of telegrams between the following British officers: the Political Resident, Bushire...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Feb 1937-9 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (107 folios)

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