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1. IOR/R/15/6/399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/399
Title:
File 11/53 Naval Periodical Summary
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of the 'Naval Periodical Summary - Persian Gulf' that was compiled by the Royal Navy Staff Officer (Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. These summaries contain details of the movement of ships and individuals ('personalities') around the region's numerous ports. In addit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1947-Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/6/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/144
Title:
File 6/1 ZANZIBAR
Scope & Content:
The file concerns two items of correspondence relating to Zanzibar. The first is an anonymous letter to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (in Arabic, with English translation), dated 14 February 1901, concerning Hilal bin Amr, former Vizier to the Sultan of Zanzibar. The letter warns the Sultan tha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1901-28 Feb 1905
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/471

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471
Title:
'War Censorship'
Scope & Content:
This volume pertains to the wartime censorship of communication to and from Muscat during the Second World War. In particular, the volume's papers contain instructions from the Government of India to the Political Agency in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple langua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1939-8 May 1942
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/470
Title:
File 23/3 III Anti-locust campaign
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to an anti-locust campaign in Oman in 1945. The papers contain letters, telegrams, and reports by a number of agencies that were largely coordinated from the Political Agency in Muscat. These include the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit, as well as Indian, Egyptian...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1945-29 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (258 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/123
Title:
File 3/3 BOOKS ETC: B. MAPS.
Scope & Content:
The file contains covering letters and acknowledgements concerning maps. The maps concerned are: (1) blueprints of certain panoramic sketches drawn by Major Claude Edward Urquhart Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat, in the course of reconnaissances in the southern waters of Muscat and Oman (sent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1934-12 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/159
Title:
File 6/12 Foreign Interests: Persian Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a complaint made by the Government of Iran of that Britain was 'intriguing' with Persian subjects in Baluchistan, the arrest of a British Indian subject by the Iranian Police and rumours of arms smuggling into Persian Baluchi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1934-11 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/71
Title:
FILE NO: 1/1 ARMS TRAFFIC
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams, letters, and extracts from intelligence summaries related to arms trafficking in Oman. The main correspondence is related to the recovery of boxes of small arms ammunition that were recovered by local inhabitants from shallow water off Ras al-Hadd in Oman. They are s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1946-1 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/124
Title:
File 3/3 Books etc.
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following title at the top of the notes (folio 13): 'BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS: MAPS.' The file contains correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and other British officials, concerning the despatch to the Political Agency, Muscat of miscellaneous charts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/375
Title:
File 11/24 Who's Who
Scope & Content:
This file contains a list of individuals resident in Gwadur alleged by the British authorities to be 'bad characters and disturbers of the peace'. The list is divided into two sections, 'Hindus' and 'Aga Khanis' [Isma'ilis], and contains entries for a total of twelve individuals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/456
Title:
File 17/2 Horticulture'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and documents regarding the creation and management of a garden attached to the Political Agency in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency in Muscat and various horticultural suppliers and specialists in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)