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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Zanzibar, Zanzibar Island, Africa Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/MAR/C/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/586
Title:
Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
Scope & Content:
A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternate and the Sylph (1810-1811). Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains: The daily entri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1811
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/12
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE E.I.C. RESIDENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF 1842-43 FROM AGENT IN SYRIA 1842-43 FROM AGENT WITH IMAUM OF MUSCAT 1842-43’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters to the Secret Committee of the East India Company from: Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, in charge of the Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson; HM’s Consuls and East India Company’s Agents in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1842-13 Apr 1844
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/588
Title:
File 748/1916 Pt 1-2 'The Aga Khan'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of correspondence relating to Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan. Issues discussed include his award of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to maintain the peace between Turkey and the Western Powers since the Mudros Armistice (1918). Also includes telegrams from Ismailia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1912-5 Jan 1929
Extent:
1 volume (375 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/260
Title:
PZ 6253/1938 'Shipwreck of a party of Muscat Arabs - Qn. of recovery of expenses incurred by Govt. of Italian Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning: the shipwreck on the coast of Italian Somaliland, on 20 March 1938, of a group of Muscat Arabs on board the dhow [sailing vessel] ‘Galib’, bound for Zanzibar and the Tanganyika Territory; and the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1938-17 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B14b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14b
Title:
Report of a committee on the Muscat subsidy and the Zanzibar Agency and Consulate
Scope & Content:
A printed report, written by a Committee formed by Louis Mallet, Henry Cadogan Rothery and William Henry Wylde, 8 December 1876. The Committee was nominated by H M's Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for India, to determine whether the Imperial Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1876
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B14c

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14c
Title:
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1876
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B84
Title:
Further Papers respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding their attempts to monitor and prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa. The correspondence dates from March 1869 to October 1869. Of particular interest are the following folios: Folio 71 - French Government boat r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)