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036-000544688 Language Arabic Name Political Agent, Kuwait, 1904-1961

1. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/50/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 7 'Koweit Flag.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the proposal that vessels from Koweit [Kuwait] should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would bring from the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-22 Mar 1907
Extent:

76 folios