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11. IOR/L/PS/10/449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/449
Title:
File 1173/1914 ‘Muscat:- financial affairs. Loans to the Sultan.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the financial affairs of the Muscat (Maskat) state. It includes correspondence concerning loans from the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat, reports on the financial position of Muscat, and financial statements for the Muscat ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1910-4 Apr 1927
Extent:
1 volume (303 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/827
Title:
File 2297/1919 ‘Persian Gulf Residency Monthly Reports. 1912-20.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of reports of news received by the Persian Gulf Residency (the ‘Political Diary’ of the Residency) relating to various areas of Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf, for each month from November 1911 to December 1920 (there is no report for June 1914). The parts of Persia covered...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1912-5 Apr 1921
Extent:

1 volume (518 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/1245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1245
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 14 'Nejd-Koweit: Proposals for a comprehensive settlement between Ibn Saud & the Sheikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of the British Government to mediate a settlement of the differences between the Shaikh of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit), Sir Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hej...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1929-3 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/2883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2883
Title:
Coll 17/22(1) ‘Iraq: Iraq-Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to alleged incidents occurring on or near the border between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit). It mostly concerns alleged incidents of Iraqi police in armed cars making incursions into Kuwait territory, and alleged incidents of violation of Kuwaiti territorial waters by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1934-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (585 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/3736A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3736A
Title:
Coll 30/22 'Persian Gulf, Bahrein. Bahrein State Budget; Economy Proposals; Grant of Tariff Autonomy; Increase in Customs Duties; Developments in Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
This file contains annual budgets and financial accounts of the Government of Bahrain as well as related correspondence between British Government officials and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Ruler of Bahrain. Much of this correspondence is between officials at the Political Agency in Bahrain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1932-24 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (440 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/3736B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3736B
Title:
Coll 30/22 'Persian Gulf, Bahrein. Bahrein State Budget; Question of Successor to British Adviser to Shaikh of Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials that discusses the position of Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Ruler of Bahrain, notably their frustrations with his management of the country's economic development and the need to arrange a succession process. The correspondence also...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1946-17 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/3793

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3793
Title:
Coll 30/76 'Koweit: Abduction to Koweit of two Persian customs guards, by the crew of a Persian dhow.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the abduction from Dilam [Bandar-e Deylam] in Persia to Koweit [Kuwait] of two Persian customs guards by the crew of a Persian dhow. The nakhoda of the dhow feared punishment after his cargo was judged to be contraband by the Persian authorities, and so fled to Kuwait, with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1934-26 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/3794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3794
Title:
Coll 30/77 'Koweit: Persian interference with Koweiti dhows.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns reports of interference with Kuwaiti dhows by Iranian (also referred to as Persian) customs and naval authorities. The papers contain witness statements, letters of protest by the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait], reports, discussion of the incidents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1934-28 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/18/C92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C92
Title:
Arms Traffic in Persian Gulf. Supply of information by exporters to the Custom authorities
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a letter from Richard Thomas Prowse, Secretary to the Board of Customs, to the Under Secretary of State for India concerning the question of whether the Customs Consolidation Act 1876, empowers the Board of Customs to require, under penalty, names of suppliers and consignees...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1899
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/20/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/71
Title:
Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen.
Scope & Content:
Report by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, FRGS, FSA, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. Submitted to the Government of India, and the Committees of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore [Kānpur], and the Indian Tea Cess, Calcutta [Kolkata]. Publication statement: Calcutta: G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (86 folios)