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File 73/7 I (D 19) Status of Kuwait & Baghdad Railway, and Anglo-Turkish negotiations 1911
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memorandums, and newspaper cuttings relating to a proposed Baghdad to Basra railway, an extension of the German Berlin to Baghdad Railway. Much of the correspondence has been forwarded to the Residency by the Foreign Department of the Government of India and i...
‘File 29/18 vol I TEA FOR THE RESIDENCY BUSHIRE, ESSENTIAL FIRMS BUSHIRE, AND THE CONSULATES AT KHORRAMSHAHR, KERMAN AND BANDAR ABBAS’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about Indian tea and sugar exports to Bahrain under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities were in short supply. The file contains the corresp...
Vol 195 1854/55 Bahrain; Arab Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume’s correspondence covers three subjects, as follows: Affairs at Bahrain (folios 2-165): the hostilities between Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and Shaikh Muḥammad’s estranged relatives based at Dammām, in cohort with Fayṣal ibn Turki’s forces at Al-Qaṭīf; naval ope...
File 82/1 [I] (F 52) A.P.O.C. and Oil Concessions Arab Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department and the Under Secretary of State at the India Office in London, Sir Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time), the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Vice-Cons...
File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at the India Office in London, the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Sharjah, local rulers, and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) repre...
File 61/14 IX (D 56) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, reports, and memoranda relating to affairs between Najd and Iraq. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Residency in Bushire, James More (later Harold Dickson), Political Agent in Kuwait, Gilbert Clayton, High Commissioner in Baghd...
File 61/15 (D 40) Bin Saud: boundary settlement conference at Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the conception, planning, and first sitting of the Kuwait Conference. It is between the Political Residency at Bushire, the Political Agencies at Kuwait and Bahrain, the High Commissioners in Baghdad and Jerusalem, the Colonial Office in London, the...
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Richard Dickson); Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); Officials in the India and Foreign Offices (including Sir Louis Kershaw, John Gil...
File 12/9 Visits to Bahrain of government officials and others
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the arrangements and programmes for visits to Bahrain of the following: the Minister at Jedda, Sir Andrew Ryan, visiting the Gulf; the Political Agent at Kuwait; Mr Rendel of the Foreign Office; Dr P...
A collection of letters sent from and received at the East India Company's Bushire Residency from the establishment of the settlement in early 1763 until late 1788. The letters are mostly between the Residency and the Agency in Basra or the Presidency at Bombay, but there are several letters fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1763-6 Dec 1788
Extent:
2 volumes in one slipcase (453 items (249 folios))
