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1. IOR/R/15/1/199-234

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199-234
Title:
File 5: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The majority of the Slave Trade subject files contain papers relating to the manumission of slaves or kidnapping incidents, heard by the Political Residency, and received from the Political Agencies in Bahrain (1924-43) and Muscat (1921-42), and the Native Agent at Sharjah (1921-40). The rest of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
1892-1943
Extent:
36 files and volumes (9,000 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/235-236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/235-236
Title:
File 9: Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
There are two surviving files in the ‘Arms and Ammunition’ subject category. The earlier file relates to a search for concealed firearms in Dubai by British forces in 1910 and the civil disturbance this caused. The later file contains a series of monthly administrative reports 1929-1931, compile...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1910-1932
Extent:
2 volumes (536 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/R/15/1/239-294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/239-294
Title:
File 14: Arab Coast and Islands
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence from 1871 to 1948 on a range of matters relating to the Trucial Coast and nearby islands including Abu Musa, Tunb [Tumb] and Sir Abu Nu'air. Topics in the correspondence discussed include: British relations with the Trucial States of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
56 volumes

5. IOR/R/15/1/295-313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/295-313
Title:
File 18 Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial records of the Political Residency Bushire include papers relating to proposals for new Orders in Council; the drafting and publication of Orders in Council; proposals for amendments to existing Orders in Council by means of King's Regulations; the drafting and publication of King's ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1910-1948
Extent:
19 files and volumes (2,423 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/314-377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/314-377
Title:
File 19: Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain subject files cover a comprehensive range of topics and include correspondence regarding the nature and development of British involvement in Bahrain, financial information, Bahrain's foreign relations, information related to customs and transit fees, the reforms enacted in the 1920s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
1895-1946
Extent:
64 files and volumes (12,090 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/378-381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/378-381
Title:
File 22 Gwadar
Scope & Content:
The files cover general affairs in Gwadar, particularly oil exploration, 1914; the dispute concerning jurisdiction over the area between the Sultan of Muscat and the Khan of Kalat, 1920s; frontier demarcation; trade and administrative reports; papers relating to outbreaks of communal violence be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913-1947
Extent:
4 files and volumes (377 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/382-383

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/382-383
Title:
File 23: Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Turkish Arabia subject files relate to the internal politics and foreign relations of the state of Iraq. The files contain correspondence concerning attacks by Kurdish tribal forces against the British after the invasion of 1917, a copy of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of 1926, a discussion concernin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1945
Extent:
2 files (495 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/384-388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/384-388
Title:
File 26: Arabistan and Luristan
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain correspondence, reports, maps, and memoranda relating to British interests in the Arabistan [Khūzestān] and Luristan [Lorestān] provinces of south west Persia following their political and commercial penetration of the region in the late nineteenth-century. The documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1905-1946
Extent:

5 volumes (1073 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/389-390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/389-390
Title:
File 33: Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:
The two surviving Naval and Marine files in the records of the Political Residency, Bushire both relate to the Royal Navy base at Jufair in Bahrain. The first file records the Admiralty decision to close the naval base at Henjam [Hengam] Island and to establish a new base at Jufair, with later pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-1944
Extent:
2 files (87 folios)