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11. IOR/R/15/2/543-550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/543-550
Title:
File 15 Miscellaneous Reports
Scope & Content:
The files in this sub-sub series are categorised as miscellaneous reports; they cover diverse topics such as the ownership of islands in the Gulf as well as the leading personalities and tribes of Abu Dhabi, Buraimi and British Somaliland. The files include discussion of: the geographical charac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1949
Extent:
8 files (566 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/5/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/130
Title:
File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. The correspondence discusses the following: Operation of Iraq Customs launch in Kuwait territorial waters. The shooting of two Kuwait tribesmen in Kuwait territory by Iraq Preventive Police. Proposing a conference to be held...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1934-8 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (265 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/5/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/132
Title:
File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials suggested a mixed commission representing both the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government, and authorized the investigation all the frontier incidents by land and by sea that had occurred between the two st...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1935-11 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/5/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/133
Title:
File 2/2 VI Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling and Iraqi incursions into Kuwaiti waters. The Shaikh of Kuwait raised his complaints to the Political Agent, Kuwait, about Iraqi customs attacking Kuwaiti nationals, firewood collectors and fishermen and their jolly boats. With ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1937-1 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/6/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/86
Title:
File 2/10 1 II. AVIATION. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (1) Reconnaissance of Basrah, Aden, Muscat, Masirah, Murbat, Sauqrah Bay Etc. AIR ROUTE.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the Air Staff Intelligence, Air Headquarters, Baghdad’s request for information to be obtained from Muscat regarding the possible establishment of a subsidiary air route from Iraq to India via the Arabian side of the Gulf. The required information wa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1926-22 Dec 1931
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/6/126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/126
Title:
File 3/8 Books etc: Transliteration of vernacular names and places.
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Muscat, concerning the transliteration of personal and place names in India and the Persian Gulf. The papers were compiled in response to requests from the Government of India for standardisation in the translation of vernacular names. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Pashto, and Persian
Date Range:
25 Mar 1903-10 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (81 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/6/205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/205
Title:
File 8/21 II SUR
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to measures taken by the Government of Muscat and Oman (with the assistance of the British Government) to assert its authority over the town of Sur and the nearby village of Aiqa [Al ‘Ayjah]. The correspondence largely concerns customs control and the tense relations betwee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1931-20 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/6/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/242
Title:
'File 8/62 Muscat State Affairs: Principal Shaikhs and Tribes of Oman'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the shaikhs of the Omani tribes. Much of the correspondence discusses the Sultan's ambition to secure the allegiance of the Omani shaikhs and consolidate his authority in the interior of Oman. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1938-6 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/6/251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/251
Title:
File 8/64 III SULTAN'S RELATIONS WITH HIS TRIBES
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Omani tribes. It includes accounts of meetings between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) and the Sultan, discussing the Sultan's efforts ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1951-16 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/6/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/264
Title:
File 8/67 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSCAT – OMAN TREATY.
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the tribes of interior Oman. The volume contains multiple copies of notes produced in October 1920 by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, providing a British perspective on the history of political affairs in Muscat a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1920-27 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)