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1. IOR/R/15/5/94-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94-108
Title:
Miscellaneous Files
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series is comprised of papers relating to British involvement in managing the relations between the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Ruler of Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] – commonly referred to as Ibn Saud. Subjects covered in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1918-1928
Extent:

15 files (2531 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/1-4
Title:
File 1: Establishment
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence about staff at the Political Agency at Kuwait, and at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and British Consulate in Bushire. Most correspondence deals with changes in staff. Some of the correspondence concerning staff members at the Kuwait Agency is of a personal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
4 files (539 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/20-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/20-23
Title:
File 9: [Claims]
Scope & Content:
The four surviving Claims files contain correspondence, witness statements and other related documents. The first and second files concern the investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil offences in Kuwait, falling within the jurisdiction of the British Political Agent for Kuwait. In mos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1908-1930
Extent:
4 files (579 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/51 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/51 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 14: Piracy
Scope & Content:
The Piracy sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains details about several criminal investigations and prosecution cases that were conducted by the British Political Agent at Kuwait. These offence cases relate to acts of piracy and murder at sea in the Persian Gulf and off ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1907-1914
Extent:
1 file (301 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/293-307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/293-307
Title:
File 7: Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial Files relate to the judicial functions of the Kuwait Political Agency over British Protected Persons, as defined by the Kuwait Order in Council. IOR/R/15/1/294-297 are concerned with the drafting of the original (1925) Order in Council, and subsequent reissues in 1935 and 1949; thes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1919-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
15 files (1175 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/109-125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/109-125
Title:
File I: Kuwait/Saudi Arabia Relations
Scope & Content:
Subject File I is comprised of papers relating to British involvement in relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (spelt Saudiyeh in some files; referred to as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd prior to 1932), and Britain’s relations with the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1929-1949
Extent:

16 volumes and files (2,192 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/55-57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/55-57
Title:
File 20: [General Information]
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous series of files that covers the following topics: IOR/R/15/5/55: naval and military intelligence; IOR/R/15/5/56: botanical information about Kuwait; IOR/R/15/5/57: notes on the Ajman tribe.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
3 files (201 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/87-90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/87-90
Title:
File 32: Judicial
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series consists of judicial files from the First Series of the Kuwait Agency records. The files relate to the legal matters of British and British Indian subjects in Kuwait and of Kuwaiti subjects facing foreign courts, cases that often required the attention of the Political Agent. F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish
Date Range:
1905-1932
Extent:
4 files (1347 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/126-169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/126-169
Title:
File 2: Kuwait/Iraq Relations
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes document relations between Kuwait and Iraq, and were created and accumulated by the Kuwait Political Agency. They primarily comprise correspondence between the Political Agency, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of State for India; and the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish
Date Range:
1929-1949
Extent:

22 volumes, 22 files (8563 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/179-235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/179-235
Title:
File 4: Kuwait State
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait State files contain correspondence regarding a number of different topics that are related to the development of the state of Kuwait, the running of its government, political reform and Kuwait's relations with its neighbours and Britain. These files largely contain correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1921-1949
Extent:
57 files (6,644 folios)