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1. IOR/L/PS/12/3381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3381
Title:
Coll 27/19 ‘Passports. Aden Protectorate. Travel documents for British subjects travelling from the State of Shihr and Mukalla to India.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the question of whether Emergency Certificates issued by the State of Shehr (Shihr) and Makalla [Qu'aiti] should be regarded as valid travel documents for entry into India. The correspondence is largely between the Government of India Foreign and Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1936-23 Nov 1946
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3385
Title:
Coll 27/22 ‘Passports. Permits issued by H.M. Consular Officers in Iran on passports of Indians travelling to Iran.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to permits issued by HM Consular Officers in Iran to British Indians. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India External Affairs Department, and correspondents including the Consul General for Iran in India, and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1939-19 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3428
Title:
Coll 28/31 ‘Persia. Judicial; Law relating to entry & residence of foreigners’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Persian Government’s introduction of new legislation, under which foreigners entering or resident in Persia [Iran] had to notify their presence in the country with the Persian authorities. Included in the file are copies and extracts of the new leg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Urdu
Date Range:
30 May 1931-13 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B415
Title:
Question of issue of Persian passports or travelling passes (Ilm-o-khabar) to subjects of Bahrein, 1910-1922
Scope & Content:
Memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, of the India Office, on the rules governing travel documents for Persians and Bahrainis travelling in the Persian Gulf. The document gives a brief historical overview on what procedures have been followed by the British and Persian governments since 1910. It...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/561
Title:
File 61/7 (D 65) Bin Saud's relations with the Sheikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, and memoranda, the majority of which concern Najd-Kuwait relations. The correspondence is mostly between Ibn Sa'ud, Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah of Kuwait, the High Commissioner of Iraq, the Political Residency in Bushire, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1922-27 Jul 1929
Extent:
1 volume (200 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/562
Title:
File 61/9 (D 109) Nejd passports
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, memoranda, handwritten notes, a draft of a Najdi passport and a copy of an official Najdi passport. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Resident in Bushire (Arthur Trevor, later Stuart Knox); the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1922-12 Sep 1924
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/138
Title:
File 9/11 Grant of Passports and Permits by the Bahrain Government and Treaty with Persia relative to withdrawal of claim to
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to Persia's withdrawal of claims to sovereignty over Bahrain. The majority of the file's correspondence takes place between the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Barrett until N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1 May 1929-14 Jul 1930
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/232
Title:
File 6/9 D F Chablani, Late of Eastern Bank, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file relates to Darynamal [also spelled Darynomal] Fatehchand Chablani, who had been employed as a clerk by the Eastern Bank, Bahrain before returning to India. The file includes papers relating to a request by the Bahrain Government that the Political Agency Bahrain deny Chablani a visa in o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1929-14 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/633

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633
Title:
‘File 24/1 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RE: PASSPORT CONTROL’
Scope & Content:
The file contains the correspondence of the Political Agent, Bahrain, mainly with other British agency, consular and passport authorities in the Persian Gulf and India and also with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (representing the Bahrain passport authorities). The correspondence conce...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1934-20 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (255 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/634

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/634
Title:
‘File 24/3 SAYID MUHAMMAD TAHIR AL DABBAGH & ABDUL RA’OUF SABBAN, HEDJAZI AGITATORS’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter of complaint from Mr Ismail Ghaznavi (also spelt Ghuznavi) of Amritsar, India, and is addressed to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, in December 1927. This letter and the ensuing correspondence, mainly between British officials in India an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1927-18 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)