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21. IOR/R/15/1/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/162
Title:
'Head V Oman Ports Subject 1 to 18 inclusive'
Scope & Content:
Bushire Residency correspondence, inwards and outwards. The correspondence is mainly concerned with the recovery of fines exacted against the rulers of the Trucial Coast. The reasons for the fines include breaching the maritime peace, abducting of slaves, and plundering of pearls. Topics include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857-28 Jun 1861
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/1/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/163
Title:
British Agents
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1857-27 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/1/175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/175
Title:
Wrecks, Maritime outrages
Scope & Content:
This volume is concerned with 'outrages' committed by the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bokha [Barka’, Oman] on the people of Shargah [Sharjah] whose boat foundered off his town. It is also concerned with fines exacted and the recovery of payments from various Shaikhs incurred for acts of piracy, the coerc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1859-10 May 1860
Extent:
1 volume, 17 items (32 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/1/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/176
Title:
'Book No 271' [Resident's Tour: Reports for 1858 and 1859]
Scope & Content:
The volume contains official tour reports of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, with supporting correspondence and papers, for the years 1858 and 1859. There is a title page within the volume stating : 'Head IX. Subject 2, Part 1. Resident's Tour. Reports fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1858-30 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/1/178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/178
Title:
'Book No 281'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains administrative reports and historical sketches concerning Persian Gulf affairs. The volume also contains a number of letters between Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; A Hinlock Forbes, Acting Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Captain Felix Jon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1859-31 May 1861
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/1/185

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/185
Title:
17 File 592 I Runaway Sailors and Divers, Agreement with Trucial Chiefs for their Prevention
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials and the various chiefs of the Trucial Coast regarding arrangements concerned with runaway sailors and divers in the area. The file contains several letters and other documents in Arabic (with English translations) sent from the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1878-22 Jan 1880
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/1/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/187
Title:
‘26 File 626 Qatar and Bahrain affairs: action of Shaikh Jasim ibn Muhammad Al Thani against al-`Udaid’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Ruler of Katr [Qatar], Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī, and British officials, concerning relations between Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad and a variety of parties on the Arab coast, including Indian subjects in Qatar, the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, and th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 May 1881-2 Sep 1886
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/1/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/188
Title:
32 File 654 Intrigues of Persian officials on Arab Coast
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence discussing the concerns of British officials regarding the movement of Persian Government officials in the Gulf and their supposed attempts to challenge British power in the region. The movements of Haji Ahmed Khan (also given as Hajee Ahmed Khan and Hajee Ahme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
23 May 1887-24 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 volume (162 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/1/189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/189
Title:
33 File 665 Hostilities between Shaikh Zaid and Shaikh Jasim
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memos, reports and correspondence exchanged between the British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident and his Agents at Sharjah and Bahrein [Bahrain], the Ruler of Katr [Qatar], Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī, and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Zayid bin K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Mar 1888-9 Jun 1890
Extent:
3 volumes (404 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/1/190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/190
Title:
34 File 666 Threatened invasion of Oman by Ibn Rashid
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the perceived threat of attack on Oman by Ibn Rashid [Muḥammad bin ‘Abdullah Āl Rashīd]. The principal correspondents are: Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire; Abul Kasim [Ḥajj Abu'l-Qāsim], Residency Agent at Sha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1888-15 Nov 1889
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)