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1. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/788
Title:
Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company. The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2880
Title:
Coll 17/19 ‘Iraq: Sheikh of Koweit’s Fao Date Gardens’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mainly correspondence and India Office Minute Papers, relating to the Shaikh of Koweit’s [Kuwait’s] date gardens at Fao [Al-Faw] in Iraq. It includes correspondence concerning: Unrest among the fellaheen [agricultural labourers or peasants] on the Fao estates in 1933, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1933-25 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (337 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2965

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2965
Title:
Coll 20/13 'Muscat: Date trade: Indian tariff on Muscat dates'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence concerning the cultivation of and trade in dates in Oman. The principal correspondents are the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), India Office, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agency in Muscat. The following is co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1931-29 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B468
Title:
The Date Gardens in Iraq of the Sheikhs of Koweit [Kuwait] and Mohammerah. Scope of undertakings given by HM Government in 1914. Case for the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown and Opinion thereon T W H Inskip and F B Merriman, Law Officers' Department, 29 Mar 1933. inc The date gardens in Iraq of the Sheikhs of Koweit and Mohammerah. Historical summary [undated]
Scope & Content:
This file contains a British Government report (folios 1-19) regarding promises made by the British in 1914 to the rulers of Kuwait and Mohammerah concerning their ownership of date gardens in Iraq. The report contains a description of the situation and the legal opinion of T W H Inskip and F ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)