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1. 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

2. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/110
Title:
‘Book 153 1847’ Vol 153 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire between January and November 1847, mainly from the following British officials: Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Envoy at the Court of the Shah of Persia, Tehran; Henry Wel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
7 Jan 1847-8 Nov 1847
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

4. 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

5. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 106-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 106-108
Title:
Letter from William Taylor Thompson, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Resident [Political Agent in Turkish Arabia], Baghdad
Scope & Content:
The letter is reporting that the hostile attitude of the Government of Persia towards the British has proven short lived; it explains this is because the promises made to the Shah by the Russian Minister were not within his power to make. It notes that in consequence, the Persian Government has ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
27 Nov 1853
Extent:

3 folios

6. IOR/R/15/1/145-179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/145-179
Title:
Bushire Residency correspondence: subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence sent and received by the Residency at Bushire. The holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (permanent or acting) during the period were Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Captain (James) Felix Jones, Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Malayalam, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1854-1863
Extent:
35 volumes (5657 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/179
Title:
Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding relations between the people of Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis] and the involvement of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, in affairs. The correspondence consists of letters and reports sent by Captain Jones to the Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859-14 Jan 1862
Extent:
2 volumes (354 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/10
Title:
File A/14 Shaikh Hamad bin Muhammad Al Khalifa and his intrigues with the Turkish authorities
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the actions and grievances of Shaikh Ḥamad bin Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, the ruler of Bahrain. The key correspondents in the file are Shaikh Ḥamad and Shaikh ‘Īsá, and a succession of Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
23 Dec 1904-19 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 volume (123 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981
Title:
‘Bahrainese abroad’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
22 Sep 1873-1 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1981-1989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981-1989
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Miscellaneous unnumbered accounts and papers
Scope & Content:
The files hold a miscellaneous selection of correspondence, accounts and other papers, not associated with any of the subject headings under which most of the Bahrain Political Agency files are arranged. The files contain: correspondence dated between 1873 and 1913, relating to the status of Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1873-1951
Extent:
9 volumes and files (1,900 folios)