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4891. IOR/R/15/2/612

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/612
Title:
Effects of Zubara [al-Zubārah] dispute on Imports into Qatar from Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file concerns an enquiry by Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, through Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government, regarding whether motor agents to whom dollar credits are given are free to sell their cars to anybody who wishes to buy them, including ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1947-10 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

4892. IOR/R/15/2/613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/613
Title:
‘File 21/11 Communal tension in Qatar: appointment of special constables for Qatar’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to tensions arising between the Muslim and Sikh communities of Bahrain and Qatar, in response to the Indo-Pakistan war of 1947. The tensions referred to in the file are chiefly between Indian/Pakistani employees of Petroleum Concessions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1948-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

4893. IOR/R/15/2/614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/614
Title:
‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the abduction and enslavement of a young man from Muscat, who was found working at Petroleum Concessions Limited’s (PCL) oilfields in Qatar, and attempts by the Political Agent and others, including Saleh Al Mana [Ṣāliḥ Āl Māni‘], a representative of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1948-27 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4894. IOR/R/15/2/618

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/618
Title:
‘File 22/8 II SHAIKH OF DUBAI’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the actions of Shaikh Saeed Bin Maktoom [Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Ḥashr Āl Maktūm], Ruler of Dubai, covering the years 1941, 1944, 1946 and 1948-49. The correspondents are as follows: John Bar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1941-28 Feb 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4895. IOR/R/15/2/620

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/620
Title:
File 22/12 Situation at Diba
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between 1941 and 1944 and starts with reports of the building of a fortified tower at the town of Diba [Dibba] (also spelt Dhibah, Daba) by the minority Qawasim [Āl Qawāsim] (also spelt Jawasim) inhabitants, subjects of the Regent of Kalba [Kalbā'], for p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1940-19 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

4896. IOR/R/15/2/623

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/623
Title:
File 22/23 Recognition of FUJAIRAH as Independent State
Scope & Content:
The file correspondence begins with a note dated 1938 from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain announcing the succession of Shaikh Muhammad bin Hamad ash-Sharqi to the Trucial Coast Shaikhdom of Fujairah, on the death of his brother, Shaikh Saif bin Hamad ash-Sharqi, 24 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
02 Jan 1938-09 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

4897. IOR/R/15/2/624

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/624
Title:
‘File 22/29 PRESENTATION OF DATE GARDENS TO SHAIKH OF DUBAI BY SHAIKH OF RAS AL KHAIMAH’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain and Gordon Noel Jackson, the Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain about the gift of date gardens in his territory by Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Al Qasimi, Sha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1947-24 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

4898. IOR/R/15/2/625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/625
Title:
File 22/33 TANB ISLAND
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about Arab sovereignty and occupation of the Gulf islands of Tanb (also spelt Tamb, Tunb), Nabiyu Tunb, Abu Musa (also spelt Bu Musa) and Sir Bu Na’air (also spelt Sir Bunair) in the light of a renewed territorial claim by Iran (formerly Persia) in 1948. The main...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1948-18 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

4899. IOR/R/15/2/626

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/626
Title:
File 23/1 FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF COUNCIL OF STATE, MUSCAT
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Lt-Colonel Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent Muscat, concerning the Muscat State Council. Correspondence (f 3) from Reginald George Evelin William Alban, Political Agent Muscat, notes that there is no co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1933-21 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

4900. IOR/R/15/2/627

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627
Title:
File 23/2 Deportation of Omani Darwishes.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the activities of certain Omanis in Bahrain (particularly three named men), who had 'set up as pseudo-religious leaders' and had encouraged practices characteristic of 'so-called Darwishes' [dervishes] (f 3), and the reaction to their presence in the state by the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1947-4 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

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