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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Sultan of Zanzibar, 1856-1964 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/18/B2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B2
Title:
Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
Six memoranda pertaining to British handling of relations between Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia. The authors are all connected to the India Office, in London, mostly members of the Council of India. Some seem to be written independently, others in response to earlier memoranda. All documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1868-24 Jul 1868
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (29 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B14a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14a
Title:
Memorandum No 1. Zanzibar Agency and Consulate Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 17 August 1876. The first part of the document is a claim of expenses for an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns from the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Mu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1876
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B83
Title:
Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B90
Title:
Slave-dealing and Slave-holding by Kutchees in Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
This file contains a selection of correspondence, extracts and reports regarding the involvement of British subjects from the Princely State of Kutch [Cutch] in the slave trade in Zanzibar and attempts by the British Government to end this involvement. Much of the correspondence is from Britai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:

1 file (28 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B118
Title:
Mem: Conclusion of the Declaration with France as to Muscat in 1862 and the acquisition of Gwadar by Muscat.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum explaining that Lord Canning, Viceroy and Governor General of India, had arbitrated between the two sons of Sultan Syud Saeed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]upon his death. The two sons agreed the division of their inheritance between them as Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat resp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1899
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B129
Title:
Muscat
Scope & Content:
A memorandum on British relations with Muscat for the years 1895 to 1901. It was prepared by Colin George Campbell for the India Office on 7 June 1901. The document gives a history of British and French relations with the Sultans of Muscat, and to a lesser extent, Zanzibar. It opens with a brie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1901
Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B150A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B150A
Title:
‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
Scope & Content:
The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 file (55 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/155
Title:
'Book No 219. From November 1856 and January 1857 To July 1861'
Scope & Content:
Volume regarding affairs in Muscat relating to Syed Torkee [Turkī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd] of Sohar's rebellious actions against Syed Soweynee [Thuwaynī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd]. The volume discusses the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] Chief's attempts at spreading dissention in Oman; the involvement of their br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857-9 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)