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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/80-84
Title:: File 28: Naval Affairs
Scope & Content:: These five files contain correspondence, planning documents, and miscellaneous paperwork pertaining to the design, planning, and construction of buoys, surveys, beacons, and lights in and around Kuwait's harbour. The last file in the series, contains documents relating to the visit of the French ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1904-1929
Extent:: 5 files (657 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/91 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 34: Pearl Fisheries
Scope & Content:: The sub-sub-series comprises of just one file relating to pearl fisheries from the First Series of the Kuwait Agency records.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1906-1924
Extent:: 1 file (37 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/92 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 36: Bandar Shuwaikh Lease
Scope & Content:: The sub-sub-series comprises of just one file from the First Series of the Kuwait Agency Records, relating to the lease of Bandar Shuwaikh.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1905-1923
Extent:: 1 file (277 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/93 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 38: Miscellaneous assistance to Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:: The sub-sub-series comprises one file from the First Series of the Kuwait Agency records, relating to assistance given to the Shaikh of Kuwait by the Political Agency, Kuwait.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1905-1932
Extent:: 1 file (621 folios)

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)

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)

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)

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