File 6/30 Foreign Interests: Sa'udi Arabian Affairs
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a copy of an extract of a letter composed by the British Legation in Jeddah regarding the importation of large numbers of rupees from India into Saudi Arabia through the port of Jedda [Jeddah].
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. Correspondence on two separate topics has been merged in the file: (1) Correspondence concerning Abdul Jalil Zawawi, a Cable and Wireless probationer, who had run away from the Company's school in Karachi and gone to Laho...
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: draft of a Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; draft and agreed versions of the Muscat-Muttrah Telephone Licence between ...
File 13/2 II 'ACTIVITIES OF SLAVE RUNNERS IN MUSCAT TERRITORY'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the slave traffic on the Batina Coast [Al Bāţinah], as well as the searching of Persian dhows in Muscat territorial waters. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Muscat, and the Politica...
File 13/3 'SLAVERY & SLAVE RUNNING: MIRZA BIN BARKAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the slave trade at Fujairah and the piratical activities of Mirza ibn Barkat. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Kuwait; and ...
File 13/3 III 'SLAVE TRADE: Instructions for Manumission of Slaves'
Scope & Content:
The file is composed of two pieces of correspondence: A letter (21 May 1949) from the Persian Gulf Residency to the Political Agent, Muscat, requesting statistics for manumission in the Muscat Agency's jurisdiction during the year ending 31 March 1949 A letter (June 13 1949) from the Political A...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to slave trafficking in Muscat territory from the Makran coast. The file includes a note (ff 5-6) from the Political Agent, Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf 'SLAVERY ON THE BATINAH [Al-B...
File XVII/19 Government Property; Christian Cemetery at Gwadur
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This file contains a letter sent to the Political Residency in Bushire regarding the 'deplorable state of neglect' of the Christian cemetery in Gwadur [Gwadar] and an estimate of costs for the construction of a wall around the cemetery that was sent by the British Agency in Gwadur to the Politica...
In order to enhance the revenues of the Muscat State there was an attempt to establish a customs post at Aiqa near Sur. Correspondence discusses how the Bani Bu Ali embarrassed the Political Agent, Trenchard Craven Fowle and the President of the Council of State, Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bi...
This file contains correspondence regarding tensions between Qatar and Bahrain over the ownership of Zubarah and related clashes that took place between the forces of Qatar and members of the Al Naim tribe (allied to the Al Khalifa, the ruling family of Bahrain). Much of the correspondence rel...
