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1. IOR/L/PS/9/66A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/66A
Title:
Political and Secret Letters and Enclosures Received from the Persian Gulf , Vol 5
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to mainly political and economic affairs of the Persian Gulf region. The correspondence consists of despatches, with enclosed letters and reports, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident and Consul General...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1881-1 Feb 1882
Extent:
1 volume (454 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1422

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1422
Title:
Pol Ext 8303/49 'Geology and mineral resources of Dhofar: request for reports of A L von Krafft and R P Oldham 1900-01'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the mineral resources and geological formations of Dhofar province in Oman. The file's contents revolve around the publication of a report compiled by Sir Cyril Sankey Fox in 1947 called 'The Geology and Mineral Resources of Dhufar Province, Muscat and Oman',...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3838
Title:
Coll 30/110(4) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concession: Muscat Oil Concession. Hinterland Exploration & Survey.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns geological and geophysical surveys for oil and other minerals in the hinterland of Muscat and Oman (especially Dhofar Province, also referred to as Dhufar) and the Trucial Coast (especially Sharjah) undertaken by the substantially British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1945-22 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B466
Title:
Dhofar [oil concession agreement]
Scope & Content:
This document relates to the Dhofar oil concession agreed between the Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Petroleum Concessions Limited. The agreement was signed by the Sultan; Ralph Ponsonby Watts, Political Agent and H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1937
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B470
Title:
General agreement... [between] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with an agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, which relates to the oil concession agreed between the company and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, in respect of the di...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1938
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B470A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B470A
Title:
['Pre-Emption'] Agreement... between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom... and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a 'pre-emption' agreement between the British Government and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, which relates to the commercial agreement obtained by the petroleum company for drilling for oil in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the district of Dhofar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1938
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C245
Title:
Précis of Maskat affairs, 1892-1905; In two parts: Part I 1892-1898; Part II 1899-1905 By J A Saldanha, BA, LL B
Scope & Content:
This volume is a summary of events and information about Muscat and Dhofar [Oman] affairs, compiled by J A Saldanha, and printed in Simla in March 1906. The volume is marked as secret and divided into two parts: Part I 1892-98, mainly on the 1894-95 rebellion at Muscat, and the British proposa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1906
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/398

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/398
Title:
File 35/64 Mineral deposits in Dhofar
Scope & Content:
The file contains two items. The first is 'A note on the Dhufar Province, Southern Arabia' by Gordon Noel Jackson dated 23rd June, 1943, Kuwait. This typed note is 8 pages and has sections on topography; climate; people; economy and finance; agriculture; administration; airport; security; of sci...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 volume (54 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/683

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/683
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/12-ii A.75. P.C.L. MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Olaf Caroe), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts), the India Office (Maurice Clauson, John Charles Walton), the Secretary of State for India (Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marqu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1937-29 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/684
Title:
'86/12-III CONFIDENTIAL A. 85 P.C.L. MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf , the Political Agent at Muscat, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the India Office (Roland Tennyson Peel, John Percival Gibson, Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison) , the Secretary to the Government of India (Si...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1937-31 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 volume (278 folios)