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1. IOR/R/15/2/1676-1688

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1676-1688
Title:
File 21: Aviation
Scope & Content:
The thirteen aviation files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to matters of civil and military aviation in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in Bushire (later in Bahrain), numerous other political and m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1927-1950
Extent:
13 files and volumes (1137 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/6/145-181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/145-181
Title:
File 6: Foreign Interests
Scope & Content:
The Foreign Interests sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of foreign states in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the wider Gulf region. The files relate to the United States of America (IOR/R/15/6/145-147,174,179), France (IOR/R/15/6/148-151), Germany (IOR/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1950
Extent:
37 files (1157 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/72-121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/72-121
Title:
File 2: Aviation
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series ‘Aviation’ covers the signing of Civil Air Agreements between the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman between 1934 and 1947, and the establishment of landing grounds at various sites in the Sultan’s territories. The landing grounds were established as a war me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1926-1951
Extent:
50 files and volumes (5484 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/199-703

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199-703
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: subject files
Scope & Content:
The records consist of subject files of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are arranged as follows: IOR/R/15/1/199-234: File 5: Slave Trade, 1892-1943; IOR/R/15/1/235-236: File 9: Arms and Ammunition, 1910-1932; IOR/R/15/1/237-238: File 13: Miscellaneous, 1912-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Italian, Kanarese, Marathi, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
506 files and volumes

5. IOR/R/15/1/1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: letters received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence received ('letters inward') and sent ('letters outward') by the Political Residency, Bushire. Much of the early correspondence is with the East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]; later with the Government of Bombay in its various departments, other Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1763-1849
Extent:
118 files and volumes

6. IOR/R/15/1/704 (Sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/704 (Sub-series)
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: papers concerning relations between Russia and Persia, 1837-1875
Scope & Content:
The records consist of a single volume of collected correspondence relating to political and miltary contacts between Russia and Persia during the period 1837-1875. A note towards the front of the volume bears the signature of Lewis Pelly. The papers fall into three divisions: papers relating to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1860-1910
Extent:

1 volume (173 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/20-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/20-23
Title:
File 9: [Claims]
Scope & Content:
The four surviving Claims files contain correspondence, witness statements and other related documents. The first and second files concern the investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil offences in Kuwait, falling within the jurisdiction of the British Political Agent for Kuwait. In mos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1908-1930
Extent:
4 files (579 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/73-95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/73-95
Title:
File 1 Political
Scope & Content:
The Political files of the Political Agency, Bahrain for this period deal with important political developments in the Persian Gulf affecting Bahrain itself and wider British interests in the region. The principal topic covered in the papers is relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1915-1937
Extent:
23 files and volumes (4748 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/294-341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/294-341
Title:
File 8 Reports and Returns
Scope & Content:
The files consist of collated periodicals produced by various military and governmental offices and containing intelligence on a wide range of subjects, all of which were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files include the related correspondence. The geographic focus of the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1922-1950
Extent:
48 files (6052 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/332-333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/332-333
Title:
File 10: Passports and Protection
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series covers correspondence related to the Iranian Government’s order known as the Tehran order, on treating people arriving at Persian ports from Bahrain, Muscat, Dubai and Oman as Persian subjects. It also includes correspondence related to the impounding of British subjects’ pass...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1928-1938
Extent:
2 files (60 folios)