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1701. 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)

1702. 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)

1703. IOR/R/15/5/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/134
Title:
File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1942-1 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

1704. IOR/R/15/5/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/135
Title:
File 2/4 I 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. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1914-12 Dec 1930
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)

1705. IOR/R/15/5/136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/136
Title:
File 2/4 II 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. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1931-19 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

1706. IOR/R/15/5/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/137
Title:
File 2/4 III 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. A particular taxation system called Istihlak (consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1932-26 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

1707. 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)

1708. IOR/R/15/5/139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/139
Title:
‘File 2/4 V ISTIHLAK TAX’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence by the Political Resident, Bushire, to the Political Agent, Kuwait, asking him to remind the Shaikh of Kuwait to prepare a report related to the Istihlak (consumption) tax he paid on the produce of his date gardens in Iraq in 1938 and 1939. The Shaikh wrote back p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1940-12 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

1709. IOR/R/15/5/140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/140
Title:
File 2/5 I SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to a court suit raised in Basra Court by Rafiyaa bint Ali al-Zuhair and other members of al-Zuhair family complaining against the Ruler of Kuwait. The suit in question concerns a portion of the Shaikh’s Faddaghiya estate on Shatt al-Arab, and the Bashiya ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1930-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

1710. IOR/R/15/5/141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/141
Title:
File 2/5 II 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, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the court suit raised in Basra Court by members of al-Zuhair family complaining against the Ruler of Kuwait. The sui...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1915-27 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 volume (206 folios)

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