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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Riots Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1452

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1452
Title:
Coll 1/15 'Arab-Jewish riots: Suggested increase in Police and Defence Forces; question of compensation for loss of and damage to property'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the Arab-Jewish disturbances which took place in the Aden Settlement on the 23-25 May 1932. The disturbances occurred following the alleged defilement of a mosque. The file contains reports and internal memos, plus correspondence between: the Aden Resident; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1932-13 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (351 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3359

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3359
Title:
Coll 26/14 (3): 'PALESTINE: Supply of Information to P.R.P.G: Developments affecting the Persian Gulf and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on developments in Palestine and their reverberations in the Persian Gulf states and the Protectorate of Aden from 25 November 1947 to 27 October 1948. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Commonwealth Relations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1947-27 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3786
Title:
Coll 30/69 'Bahrain: Pearling Riots in.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns demonstrations by pearl divers in Bahrain in 1932, in the course of which two people were killed. The disturbances arose following the issue of a proclamation by the Government of Bahrain announcing changes in inheritance law. However, the file states that the basic cause of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1932-15 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3972

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3972
Title:
Coll 30/228 'COMMUNAL SITUATION IN PERSIAN GULF.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a single item of correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) to the Commonwealth Relations Office, London, concerning communal relations between Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and Hindus in the Persian Gulf. The enclosur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1948-25 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C81
Title:
'Memorandum on the Affairs of Persia. August 1892 to October 1893.'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a summary of news and events in Persia of interest to the British Government. The subject matter largely concerns itself with reports indicating that the current Shah, Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, is very unpopular, and discussion on whether Britain and Russia should work together...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1893
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/94
Title:
‘Book 128’ Letters outward
Scope & Content:
All letters in the file are from the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at his Residency on the Island of Karrack [Khārk, Jazīreh-ye] and are addressed mainly to the British Government in Bombay. Many of the Resident’s letters include extracts from reports submitted to him by the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1841-23 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/115
Title:
‘Old Index Book No 159 From January 1848 To December 1848’ Vol 159 Outward letter book, 1848
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent in 1848 by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and also to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Farrant, Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1848-31 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 volume (310 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/848

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/848
Title:
File 35/3 The Divers' Riot of May 1932
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials related to unrest that took place in Bahrain in May 1932 and involved a number of the country's pearl divers. A detailed account of the protests written by Britain's Political Agent in Bahrain, Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior is enclosed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1932-28 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/143
Title:
File 2/5 IV SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the agrarian troubles in the Shaikh’s gardens caused by the tenants and the fellaheen working there who were refusin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish
Date Range:
12 Oct 1933-26 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/144
Title:
File 2/5 V SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, in southern Iraq. The correspondence concerns the Iraqi Ministry of Justice’s refusal to recognise the Power of Attorney presented to them by the Shaikh of Kuwait’s lawyer in Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1933-30 Apr 1935
Extent:

1 volume (309 folios)