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1. IOR/L/PS/12/289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/289
Title:
PZ 2872/39 'Importation into India of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British Government officials relating to the importation of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf into India. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1939-15 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1978

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978
Title:
Coll 5/28 ‘Air Route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Debai Air Agreement’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to air facilities required by Imperial Airways (from 1940 the British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) along the Arabian Coast. The file therefore contains a number of lists (some of which are categorised by pri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1933-30 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (465 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2030

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2030
Title:
Coll 5/68 ‘Air route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Security of the Air Route; emergency landing arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the security of the Arab Coast Air Route, used by both Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force (RAF). The majority of the file is devoted to proposals made by Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in his letter da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1939-11 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3773
Title:
Coll 30/56 'Persian Gulf. Visit of 1st Destroyer Flotilla to: 1933. Durbar of Trucial Sheikhs at Debai [Dubai]. Reaffirmation of Lord Curzon's Statement of Policy in 1903'
Scope & Content:
This file contains: Two letters from the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department to the Secretary of State for India concerning the wording of an address regarding historical agreements between the British Government and local rulers in the Persian Gulf to be given by the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1933-28 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3867

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3867
Title:
Coll 30/133 'Persian Gulf. Trucial Coast: Appointment of a Medical Officer'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the provision of medical facilities on the Trucial Coast including the political reasons for doing so. Specifically, the correspondence discusses the opening of a medical dispensary in Dubai in June 1939. The file also contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1936-11 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (127 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B321

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B321
Title:
The Debai incident
Scope & Content:
This handwritten memorandum concerns the Debai [Dubai] Incident of 1910-1911. The memorandum gives a background on British treaty relations with the Sheikh Buṭtī bin Suhayl Āl Maktum of Dubai, the arms blockade on the Trucial coast, and a narrative of the incident that occurred on 24 December 191...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910s
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B392

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B392
Title:
Wireless Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Written by the India Office it covers: an early history of wireless telegraphy in the Persian Gulf, including proposals for its use, from 1904-1915; the erection of stations at Bushire, Henjam, Bahrein [Bahrain], Koweit [Kuwait], Dubai, and Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] from 1915-1917; Persian request...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B458
Title:
DUBAI OIL CONCESSION AND CONNECTED DOCUMENTS
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum reproducing a commercial agreement between Petroleum Concessions Limited and the Shaikh of Dubai, in which rights are granted to the former to prospect for oil in the State of Dubai. The memorandum also reproduces a political agreement between the British Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1937-6 Oct 1937
Extent:

10 folios

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B473

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B473
Title:
'Dubai Commercial Air Agreement'
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of a commercial air agreement signed by Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum [Sa‘īd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm], the ruler of Dubai, and Hugh Weightman, Political Agent at Bahrain, on 6 June 1938. The agreement contains fourteen numbered clauses, some with lettered sub-clauses. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1938
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)