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1. IOR/R/15/6/454-463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/454-463
Title:
File 17: Government Property
Scope & Content:
The Government Property sub-sub-series contains files and volumes that discuss issues concerning buildings, land (including cemeteries) and other property owned by the British Government inside the borders of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The majority of the correspondence in these files i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, and Urdu
Date Range:
1912-1948
Extent:
10 files (1,216 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/R/15/6/334-401

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/334-401
Title:
File 11: Political
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Political' contains correspondence and papers related to political matters in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the surrounding region. Political here is defined broadly and as such as the sub-sub-series' contents is diverse in nature. Subjects covered include: Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Urdu
Date Range:
1906-1951
Extent:
68 files and volumes (6,472 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/456
Title:
File 17/2 Horticulture'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and documents regarding the creation and management of a garden attached to the Political Agency in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency in Muscat and various horticultural suppliers and specialists in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/454

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/454
Title:
File 17/1 Government Properties. Christian Cemeteries'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the European (or Christian) cemeteries in Muscat. Much of the correspondence is between British diplomatic and naval officials concerning their general upkeep and maintenance. As such, a number of lists of those individuals b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
30 Nov 1912-14 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 file (99 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/269

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/269
Title:
File 8/76 INDIAN OFFICERS OF THE MUSCAT LEVIES
Scope & Content:
Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/268), this file mainly concerns the deputation of Pakistan Army officers with the Muscat Infantry (also referred to as the Muscat Levy Corps). Matters covered in the correspondence include the following: the possibility of extending the deputati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
9 Jan 1949-24 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/288

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/288
Title:
File 8/95 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MEDICAL & EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, GWADUR.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns medical and educational facilities in Muscat-controlled Gwadur [Gwadar]. Most of the correspondence relates to the recruitment of staff, specifically regarding the following positions: sanitary inspector, medical officer, compounder, English teacher, and Urdu teacher. The corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Feb 1947-21 Sep 1948
Extent:
1 file (78 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/372
Title:
File 11/20 Gwadur Political Affairs (Defilement of Aga Khani Graveyard)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers and correspondence relating to communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur Gwadar between members of the Khoja/Aga Khani Ismaili community, who were British subjects, and the Baluchi community, who were subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Specifically, much...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Urdu
Date Range:
4 Aug 1930-15 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 volume (330 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/274

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/274
Title:
File 8/82 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: GWADUR IMPROVEMENTS.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the Muscat territory of Gwadur [Gwadar, Pakistan; it is written as Gwadar in some of the correspondence]. The file begins with discussion of a proposal from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to devote the whole of his Gwadur revenue to the improv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:
14 Feb 1945-27 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (276 folios)