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1. IOR/R/15/1/229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/229
Title:
‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the first part of the volume relates to specific cases of the kidnapping of boys from Baluchistan/India to the Trucial Coast, and the efforts of the Political Resident and Political Agents to locate, retrieve and repatriate them. Reference is made to a court case in Karachi, in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1927-3 Jan 1930
Extent:

1 volume (312 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/230
Title:
File 5/196 II Slave traffic in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to slave trading activity in the Persian Gulf, including intelligence reports on suspected slave traders, and the movement of suspected slaves across the Gulf by traders. The volume also includes a number of reports on the extent and nature of the slave...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1929-7 Dec 1938
Extent:

1 volume (216 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/323

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/323
Title:
File 8/22 Eastern Aden Protectorate Intelligence Summaries
Scope & Content:
The file contains periodic intelligence summaries for the East Aden Protectorate. From the beginning of January 1941 to the end of May 1941 the reports are weekly. From June 1941 they become monthly. The reports are composed by the Resident Adviser, based in Mukalla. Each report consists of an ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Jan 1941-Sep 1945
Extent:
1 file (284 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/601

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601
Title:
‘File 20/1 I Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, in response to Sir George Maxwell’s (British adviser to the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Slavery) requests for information on the extent and nature of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf. Copies of c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1931-30 Jul 1937
Extent:

1 volume (332 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/602

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/602
Title:
File 20/1 II Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:

1 volume (283 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1542
Title:
‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, submitted by the Political Agency in Bahrain, at the request...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1933-2 Jan 1945
Extent:
1 file (304 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1865
Title:
‘File B/9 I (30/9-II) Residency Agent, Sharjah’s News Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a series of bi-monthly news summaries about events in Trucial Oman, for the years 1935 and 1936, compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah and sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The news summaries are also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1935-18 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (418 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1904

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1904
Title:
File No. E/10 V. O. POLICE REPORTS
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of reports sent by the Police Department to the Political Agency in Bahrain between 1930 and 1934. The reports are on individual cases including domestic violence, robbery, infidelity, harassment, brawls, alcohol [‘arak] manufacturing and consumption,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Malay
Date Range:
18 Nov 1930-27 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (441 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/4/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/15
Title:
File 0190 Trucial Coast News Diary
Scope & Content:
The file contains confidential news reports from the Trucial Coast. The reports were prepared by the Political Officer (in winter) or Residency Agent (in summer) and sent to the Political Agency at Bahrain. Each report covers a range of matters and is organised in short sections under a sub-head...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1946-8 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/138
Title:
File 2/4 IV TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. The correspondence is mainly about the taxation imposed on the gardens by the Iraqi Government. British offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-1 May 1939
Extent:

1 volume (269 folios)