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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language Arabic Name Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, 1783-1937

1. IOR/L/PS/5/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/169
Title:
‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM INDIA’, Vol 88
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Governor-General of India, Allahabad, Secret Department, and the President in Council, Fort William Secret Department, Bengal, to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into nine items: Affairs in Hyderabad (I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1842-17 Aug 1842
Extent:
1 volume (903 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/77
Title:
File 1290/1905 'Mesopotamia: Oudh Bequest'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the distribution of the Oudh Bequest in Kerbala [Karbala] and Nejef [Najaf]. The correspondence is principally between the Government of India (Foreign and Political Departments), the India Office, and the Foreign Office. There are many enclosures t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:

1 volume (126 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/427
Title:
File 4684/1913 Pt 3-4 'Muscat and Oman affairs'
Scope & Content:
Continuation of papers regarding the 1913 uprising of the [Ibāḍī] imamate and the tribes of the interior of Oman [under the leadership of Sālim bin Rāshid al-Kharūṣī], against the authority of the Sultan [Sulṭān] of Muscat and Oman [Taymūr bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. Parts 3 and 4 document the fol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1919-1923
Extent:

1 volume (286 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/606
Title:
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/843
Title:
File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to the visit, as state guests, of a deputation (Mission) from Koweit [Kuwait], including Sheikh Ahmad bin Jabar [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], the heir to the Emir of Koweit [Kuwait], and a deputation (Mission) from Najd (Nejd), including Faisal ibn ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1919-28 Mar 1924
Extent:

1 volume (428 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/850/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/850/3
Title:
File 4673/1919 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Bahrein Mission to England 1919. Political business of Mission’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the visit of Mission (deputation) from Bahrein [Bahrain] to the United Kingdom in 1919. It includes correspondence regarding the reception of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein, and Abdullah’s son Muhammad-bin-Abdulla by King George...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1919-12 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 item (83 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/881

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/881
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 3 ‘Hedjaz:- Relations between H.M. Govt & King Hussein. Question of subsidy. Negotiations for conclusion of a treaty.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers concerning relations between the British Government and the King of Hedjaz [Hejaz or Al-Hijaz]. Most of the papers relate to negotiations between the British Government and King Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi over the terms of an Anglo-Hashimite treaty, and revisions to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 May 1921-25 Aug 1925
Extent:

1 volume (466 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1222/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222/2
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 2 'Iraq: Date Gardens of Sheikhs of Kuwait and Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and other papers concerning the question of a tax exemption on date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The papers cover: updates and developments on the situation; the suggestion that the Iraqi Government attempt to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1931-4 Mar 1933
Extent:

1 item (541 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1276
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 4 ‘MUSCAT: FUTURE POLICY IN. Tariffs.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to British policy in Muscat. It includes some papers regarding the situation at Sur; however most of the volume concerns the financial situation of the Muscat state, mainly the proposal to increase state revenues by removing the limitation on the power of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 Aug 1928-17 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (489 folios)