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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/12/2172
Title:: Coll 7/3 'Afghanistan: supply of arms by Italian Government'
Scope & Content:: Papers regarding the purchase by the Afghan Government of arms and ammunition from Italy. The file contains correspondence with the Afghan Legations in Rome and London, and the Afghan Foreign Ministry, plus correspondence between the India Office Political Department, the Government of India's...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1 Jun 1931-21 Jun 1939
Extent:: 1 file (121 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/12/3927
Title:: Coll 30/190 'Bahrein: Qn. of the institution of a Bahrein "Order".'
Scope & Content:: The file concerns two issues ('Qn.' stands for 'question' in the file title): (1) the award by Pope Pius XII of a papal decoration (the Grand Cross of the Order of St Sylvester) to Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler of Bahrain; and (2) the decision of Shaikh ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 4 Mar 1940-26 May 1941
Extent:: 1 file (39 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:: Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:: 1 file (482 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/P/437/72
Title:: Proceedings of the Government of India, in the Foreign Department. Political, September-December 1867.
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of September to December 1867. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Departm...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Burmese, English, French, Gujarati, Italian, and Thai
Date Range:: Sep 1867-Dec 1867
Extent:: 1 volume (762 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/P/1003 Jun 1877 nos 04-18
Title:: Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
Scope & Content:: pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Mar 1876-Jun 1877
Extent:: 19 pages

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

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/556-609
Title:: File 61: Najd
Scope & Content:: These files and volumes contain correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Najd region, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and its ruler, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd, commonly known as Ibn Sa‘ūd. The papers cover the period from Ibn Sa‘ūd's rise to prominence after taking Riyadh in 1902, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1905-1944
Extent:: 54 files and volumes (12,432 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/638-642
Title:: File 25 Treaties
Scope & Content:: The Treaties subject files comprise copies of, and in some instances correspondence relating to, a number of international agreements and treaties, which are as follows: correspondence relating to the text of the Saudi-Yemeni Treaty of Taif, 1934 (IOR/R/15/2/638); a copy of the 1938 Agreement be...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1930-1948
Extent:: 5 files (99 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/639
Title:: ‘File 25/3 Agreement between UK and Italy’
Scope & Content:: The file contains a printed copy of a booklet containing two agreements: I. Agreement between the United Kingdom and Italy, consisting of a Protocol with Annexes and Exchanges of Notes; and II. Bon Voisinage Agreement and Exchanges of Notes between the United Kingdom and Italy, agreed in Rome on...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 30 Apr 1938
Extent:: 1 file (23 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:: File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:: The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:: 1930-1950
Extent:: 115 files (13,409 folios)

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