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61. IOR/R/15/2/1650-1662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1650-1662
Title:
File 19: Tours
Scope & Content:
The 13 files forming the 'Tours' subject files were produced by the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Tours' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire, other British authorities and local rulers in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
13 files (2360 folios)

62. IOR/R/15/2/1652

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1652
Title:
File 19/2 II Tour. The Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for the first official visits of the newly nominated Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior): to Bahrain, in December 1932, to the Trucial Coast in February and March 1933, cruises of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
29 Nov 1932-7 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (202 files)

63. IOR/R/15/2/1937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1937
Title:
File No. G/2 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Manamah Notables.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain including Percy Gordon Loch and Tom Hickinbotham and the notables of Manama, including, Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo and Abdulaziz Al-Qosaibi (al-Gosaibi). The letters are mostly personal and contain in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
20 Mar 1932-20 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (116 folios)

64. IOR/R/15/2/2017

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/2017
Title:
Register of legal documents
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of deeds of land sales in Arabic, dating from 7 February 1913 to 17 June 1921. Also contained within the volume, and seemingly unrelated, is part of a prison manual in English accompanied by a Persian translation (folios 8-34). Also unconnected to the rest of the vol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
7 Feb 1913-17 Jun 1921
Extent:
1 volume (223 folios)

65. IOR/R/15/2/2017-2022

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/2017-2022
Title:
Registers of legal documents
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub-series consists of registers of legal papers deposited at the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers include land sales, tenancy agreements, marriage certificates, contracts of employment, powers of attorney, and last wills and testaments. Many of the documents are in Arabic without ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1913-1953
Extent:
6 files (1199 folios)

66. IOR/R/15/5/170-178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/170-178
Title:
File 3: Kuwait/Iran Relations
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait/Iran relations sub-sub-series concerns Kuwait's and Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). Three of the files relate to cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized, and in some cases detained, by the Persian authorities. Other matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1928-1949
Extent:
9 files and volumes (1308 folios)

67. IOR/R/15/5/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/172
Title:
File 3/2 Interference with Kuwait Sailing Craft on High Seas by Persian warships.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to incidents of Kuwaiti sailing boats being intercepted (and in some cases seized and detained) by Persian warships and other vessels, on suspicions of smuggling. The file largely consists of correspondence between British officials regarding several specific incidents, includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
10 Apr 1933-23 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (273 folios)

68. IOR/R/15/5/365-398

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/365-398
Title:
Miscellaneous official and non-official printed material
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series consists of official and some non-official printed material collected at the Kuwait Agency, presumably for reference purposes. The material includes dictionaries, gazetteers, travel diaries, reports, indexes, and manuals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1829-1940
Extent:
58 files and volumes

69. IOR/R/15/6/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/183
Title:
File 8/1 GWADUR-KALAT BOUNDARY 1912-1942
Scope & Content:
This volume is mainly comprised of correspondence relating to the boundary between Muscat-controlled Gwadur [Gwadar] and the state of Kalat. Much of the correspondence discusses longstanding British concerns that the boundary should be officially defined and demarcated before any valuable minera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
8 Feb 1912-2 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

70. IOR/R/15/6/183-297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/183-297
Title:
File 8: Muscat State Affairs
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Muscat State Affairs' documents the involvement of the British Government in the administration of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's domestic and foreign affairs from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Whilst the sub-sub-series contains material rangin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Turkish, and Urdu
Date Range:
1890-1961
Extent:
115 files and volumes (10,106 folios)