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1. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

2. IOR/R/15/1/749-758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/749-758
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: further additional papers
Scope & Content:
The records consist of unrelated miscellaneous additional records of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/749: Oil Concessions, 1933 - c. 1964; IOR/R/15/1/750: Government of Bahrain Administration Report for 1926-1937, and Annual Reports ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1884-c 1964
Extent:

14 files and volumes

3. IOR/R/15/1/199-703

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199-703
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: subject files
Scope & Content:
The records consist of subject files of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are arranged as follows: IOR/R/15/1/199-234: File 5: Slave Trade, 1892-1943; IOR/R/15/1/235-236: File 9: Arms and Ammunition, 1910-1932; IOR/R/15/1/237-238: File 13: Miscellaneous, 1912-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Italian, Kanarese, Marathi, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
506 files and volumes

4. IOR/R/15/1/1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: letters received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence received ('letters inward') and sent ('letters outward') by the Political Residency, Bushire. Much of the early correspondence is with the East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]; later with the Government of Bombay in its various departments, other Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1763-1849
Extent:
118 files and volumes

5. IOR/R/15/1/705-708

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/705-708
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: additional subject files
Scope & Content:
These additional subject files are on four separate and unrelated topics: (financial matters) a volume of completed statements of monthly expenditure incurred by the Khorramshar Office under the Annual Office Allowance and other contract grants, including the Annual Launch Allowance, for 1940-4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1923-1947
Extent:
4 files and volumes (795 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/119-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Political Residency, Bushire. The volumes are bound in subject compilations. The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/119-144: subject compilations, 1850-1855; IOR/R/15/1/145-179: subject compilations, 1854-1863; IOR/R/15/1/180-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1850-1918
Extent:
80 volumes

7. IOR/R/15/1/709-748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/709-748
Title:
Political Residency and Political Agency, Bahrain reference libraries: miscellaneous prints and publications
Scope & Content:
The records consist of miscellaneous official prints and publications from the reference libraries of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946 Bahrain), and the Political Agency, Bahrain. The records include Persian Gulf Administration Reports for the years 1883-1947; gazetteers of the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1856-1954
Extent:
50 files and volumes (5023 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/237-238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/237-238
Title:
File 13 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The file and volume consists of correspondence, memos, and file notes relating to those subjects deemed miscellaneous within the Bushire Residency records. The first covers the evolution of the forms of address used for the various rulers of the Persian Gulf region. The second concerns locust sur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1912-1945
Extent:
2 files and volumes (226 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/195-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195-198
Title:
Subject Compilations
Scope & Content:
'Old System' miscellaneous compilations. The first surviving file in this sub-series was renumbered as file 14/88se R/15/1/246. Subjects include the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891; Sirrī and other Persian Gulf islands; and commercial banks on the Arab coast of the Persian G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1887-1918
Extent:
4 volumes (585 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/468 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/468 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 45: Interdicts
Scope & Content:
There is one surviving file in the ‘Interdicts’ subject category. It is a bound volume of British official correspondence about the election of the first Kuwait Legislative Council in 1938.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 file (222 folios)