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291. IOR/R/15/2/159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/159
Title:
File 1/A/38 III Negotiations with Bin Saud re: Eastern Boundary of Saudi Arabia.
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations between the British and Saudi Arabian governments over the definition of the eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia, particularly the border with Qatar and Abu Dhabi. The King of Saudi Arabia is commonly referred to in the papers as Bin Saud or Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1935-6 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

292. IOR/R/15/2/558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/558
Title:
File 17/1-II Posts and Telegraphs. Radio Station Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, Reginald George Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Tom Hickinbotham), Political Resident in Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Charles Geoffrey Prior), Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1938-1 May 1944
Extent:
1 volume (330 folios)

293. IOR/R/15/2/779

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/779
Title:
‘File 29/21 - III FOOD SUPPLY RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about arrangements for the purchase and shipping of rice imports mainly from African and South American countries, for consumption in Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai, Sharjah and other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, where rice and other cereals continued to be in scarce supply ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1948-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (358 folios)

294. IOR/R/15/2/861

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/861
Title:
File 38/1 Vol I, P. C. L. Exploration
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to survey expeditions carried out in the Trucial Coast (today's United Arab Emirates) region by Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, a subsidiary of Petroleum Concessions Limited. The correspondence is principally between the Residency Agent at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1945-10 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (231 folios)

295. IOR/R/15/2/862

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/862
Title:
File 38/1 II P. C. L. Exploration
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to survey expeditions carried out in the Trucial Coast (today's United Arab Emirates) region by Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, a subsidiary of Petroleum Concessions Limited. The correspondence is principally between the Residency Agent at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1947-18 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (72 folios)

296. IOR/R/15/2/868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/868
Title:
File 38/11 P. C. L. Planes
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the movement of company (Petroleum Concessions Limited) planes in the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are: representatives of Petroleum Concessions Limited and its subsidiary companies (Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited and Petroleum Develop...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1938-22 Apr 1950
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

297. IOR/R/15/2/607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/607
Title:
‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the lifting of travel restrictions imposed in 1944 by the British authorities in the Gulf on three members of the Darwish family from Qatar – Jasim bin Darwish, Abdulla bin Darwish and Abdur-Rahman bin Darwish. Correspondents in the file include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946-20 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

298. IOR/R/15/2/619

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/619
Title:
File 22/11 (22/8 III) DUBAI CUSTOMS AGITATIONS FOR REFORMS IN DUBAI
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a few letters and memoranda exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Residency Agent at Sharjah about imposing a temporary restriction on the importation of arms and ammunition by the Trucial Coast shaikhs, especially from Japan. There follows two memoranda...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-9 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (122 folios)

299. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

300. IOR/R/15/2/769

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/769
Title:
‘File 29/18 vol. iii TEA FOR BAHRAIN, EAST SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (238 folios)