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101. IOR/R/15/5/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/100
Title:
File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary. The main topics discussed include: The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1920-24 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

102. IOR/R/15/5/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/42
Title:
File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1929-5 Aug 1929
Extent:
1 file (187 folios)

103. IOR/R/15/5/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/208
Title:
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1938-26 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

104. IOR/R/15/5/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/56
Title:
File XX/5 Botanical information about Koweit.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait concerning botanical matters. The form Koweit is generally used in the papers. Folios 4-5 contain correspondence dated 1905 between the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) and the (Acting) Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1905-11 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

105. IOR/R/15/5/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/90
Title:
File 32/12 Estates of British and British Indian Subjects
Scope & Content:
The file contains office notes and correspondence relating to a number of claims by relatives to the estates of individuals who had died in Kuwait. The papers include witness statements, lists of possessions, and correspondence that discusses arrangements for the transferral of property. The corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1924-24 Oct 1924
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

106. 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)

107. IOR/R/15/5/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/39
Title:
File [10/12] Tribal and desert information: Ikhwan raids on Kuwait and defensive measures
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to raids made by Ikhwan forces in and around Kuwaiti territory, military action taken a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1928-31 Mar 1928
Extent:
1 file (286 folios)

108. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

109. IOR/R/15/5/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/25
Title:
File X/2 Bin Saood, Koweit [Kuwait] & Ibn Rashid
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and his conflict with the Al Rashid rulers of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar (or Emirate of Ha'il) as well as his relations with the Ottoman Empi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1909-7 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 file (527 folios)

110. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)