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11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. 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)

15. IOR/R/15/2/50 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/50 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File W War
Scope & Content:
The Confidential subject file contains correspondence concerning the anti-British revolt of the Tangsiri and Qashqai tribes, headed by Ra’īs ‘Alī Dalvārī under the influence of Wilhelm Wassmuss, and the aftermath of the attack on the British Residency at Bushire on 12 July 1915.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1915-1918
Extent:
1 file (203 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/59-61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/59-61
Title:
File 5 British Protection
Scope & Content:
This Confidential subject file contains papers related to British protection in Bahrain. Covered in these files are the establishment of a Christian cemetery in Manamah in 1901 and its upkeep; Bahraini shipping vessels and the Tangistan blockade in 1916; and the issue of a young Iraqi Jewish woma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1901-1920
Extent:
3 files (154 folios)

17. 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)

18. IOR/R/15/5/179-235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/179-235
Title:
File 4: Kuwait State
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait State files contain correspondence regarding a number of different topics that are related to the development of the state of Kuwait, the running of its government, political reform and Kuwait's relations with its neighbours and Britain. These files largely contain correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1921-1949
Extent:
57 files (6,644 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/1/119-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Political Residency, Bushire. The volumes are bound in subject compilations. The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/119-144: subject compilations, 1850-1855; IOR/R/15/1/145-179: subject compilations, 1854-1863; IOR/R/15/1/180-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1850-1918
Extent:
80 volumes

20. IOR/R/15/2/766-794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766-794
Title:
File 29 War: Food Supplies
Scope & Content:
The 29 surviving files about wartime food supplies contain the correspondence of the Political Agent for Bahrain with other British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and India, as well as rulers, officials and merchants in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar. They discuss the maintena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1940-1950
Extent:
29 files (5,479 folios)