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037-000242557 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Level [38] SubSubSeries

1. 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)

2. IOR/R/15/6/466-468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/466-468
Title:
File 19: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Miscellaneous sub-sub-series consists of three files concerning the following subjects: The purchase of a number of boats by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman The Bretton Woods Agreement and its applicability in the Persian Gulf An incident in which an Egyptian-owned merchant vessel named Star o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1948
Extent:
3 files (425 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/135-142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/135-142
Title:
File 5: Establishment
Scope & Content:
The Establishment files of the Political Agency, Muscat provide general information about the composition of the Agency's staff during the period in question, including comprehensive Annual Returns of staff for the period 1933-47 (IOR/R/15/6/138-139). IOR/R/15/6/137 concerns proposals for the ap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1948
Extent:
7 files (369 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/423-447

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/423-447
Title:
File 14: Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence relating to oil concessions in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, mineral deposits in Oman, explorations by geologists, the Sultanate's relationship to the Sterling Area, and the development of banking arrangements in the Sultanate.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1911-1951
Extent:
25 files and volumes (2475 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/6/448-450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/448-450
Title:
File 15: Visitors and Suspicious Persons
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to entry and exit of a number of individuals to Muscat and the observations of British officials concerning them. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1923-1947
Extent:
3 files (313 folios)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/6/402-413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402-413
Title:
File 12: Roads and Communications
Scope & Content:
The Roads and Communications files of the Political Agency, Muscat mostly concern mail and telegraph services in Muscat and Gwadar. The files cover the following topics: a single letter discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa, 1937 (IOR/R/15/6/402); the opera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1951
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1260 folios)