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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/20/224
Title:: Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian officials who have served at Shiraz. Delhi: Government of India, 1925
Scope & Content:: The volume contains lists of, and genealogical tables and biographies for, the notable families of Fars [Fārs] and Persian Officials at Shiraz [Shīrāz]. The volume includes a 'Sketch Map of Boundaries of Districts of Fars', found in a pocket at the rear of the volume (folio 53).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925
Extent:: 1 volume (52 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:: Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:: This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/545
Title:: 15/4 TRIBES OF BRITISH SOMALILAND
Scope & Content:: The file consists of two documents: 1. A letter dated 19 December 1941 from the Chief Secretary to the Government, Government of Aden, to the Political Agent, Bahrain. The letter encloses the pamphlet The Tribes of British Somaliland and advises that 'difficulty is frequently experienced with ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Jan 1941-19 Dec 1941
Extent:: 1 file (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/916 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: Unnumbered file: Notes on Trucial States Rulers
Scope & Content:: This sub-sub-series comprises one file providing biographical and genealogical information regarding the rulers of the Trucial Coast states in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1937-c 1942
Extent:: 1 file (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/57
Title:: File XX/9 THE AJMAN.
Scope & Content:: The file contains a set of manuscript notes by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) on the Ajman [‘Ajmān] tribe. The notes include genealogical charts ('pedigrees'); estimates of numbers of fighting men; references to allowances received by shaikhs; and a table giving the di...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1908
Extent:: 1 file (16 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C600/3
Title:: GENEALOGY OF THE SHAIKHS OF KUWAIT
Scope & Content:: The document (marked 'C.L.R.'s copy', 'Revised June 1962') consists of a chronological list of the rulers of Kuwait (1756 to date); a list of the Kuwait Council of Ministers; and genealogical tables of the descendants of thirteen shaikhs.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1962
Extent:: 1 file (19 folios)

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