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51. IOR/R/15/2/880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/880
Title:
File 39/10 (10/24) Meetings of the Baghdad Petroleum Advisory Committee
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Government of India, the British Embassy at Baghdad, California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and the Political Resident at Bahrain, regarding the monthly meetings of the Petroleum Advisory Commit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1942-19 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/2/1591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1591
Title:
‘File No. 16/83 Miscellaneous. Lists of officers serving at the American Embassy, Jidda, Saudi Arabia and other Posts and General correspondence.’
Scope & Content:
Lists, sent by the United States Consulate at Dhahran to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, detailing officers serving at the following United States’ embassies and consular offices in the Persian Gulf region: the US Embassy in Jidda [Jedda] (f 2); the US Consulate in Basra (f 3, f 8); ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1949-5 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/2/1614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1614
Title:
File 17/13 GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. TIDE TABLES, BAHRAIN BUSHIRE ETC.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns tide tables relating to Bahrain, Bushire and other locations in the Gulf. It consists mostly of telegrams, memoranda, and brief letters of correspondence. Most of the file documents the efforts of the Political Agent, Bahrain, to obtain copies of tide tables for the Port of Bu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1929-7 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/2/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981
Title:
‘Bahrainese abroad’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
22 Sep 1873-1 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/2/1990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1990
Title:
‘Transport requirements; Truck for office’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the shipment from Basra to Bahrain of a Dodge truck for use by the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, and the shipment in the opposite direction of a Hudson saloon car. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Public Relations Officer in Basra (M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1945-13 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/5/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/10
Title:
BUILDINGS. No. 4/13 I Correspondence regarding Surgeon's quarters.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, estimates and receipts relating to the accommodation for the Medical Officer of the Political Agency at Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to the leasing, maintenance and state of repair of housing for the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1924-11 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

57. IOR/R/15/5/126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/126
Title:
File 2/1 I PROPAGANDA (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq)
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the proposed appointment of Persian representatives in Kuwait, and the Political relations between Iraq and Kuwait. There is also correspondence related to the proposal of the Iraqi Government to appoint an Iraqi Vice-Consul at Kuwait. The correspond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1929-13 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 volume (341 folios)

58. IOR/R/15/5/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:
'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/5/148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/148
Title:
File 2/5 IX Shaikh’s Date Gardens.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, and related papers, regarding a court case over the ownership of date gardens claimed by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and his relations, around Fao in Iraq. The court case in question was prosecuted by the heirs of Ali Pasha Al-Zuhair...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1938-27 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 volume (370 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/5/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:
[Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Feb 1909
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)