This file contains correspondence related to the granting of a concession to Petroleum Concessions Limited for the right to explore for oil in the Shaikhdom of Umm al-Quwain. The file contains a copy of an agreement that was signed in 1938 between Petroleum Concessions Limited and Shaikh Ahmad...
The file contains a set of manuscript notes by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) on the Ajman [‘Ajmān] tribe. The notes include genealogical charts ('pedigrees'); estimates of numbers of fighting men; references to allowances received by shaikhs; and a table giving the di...
This file contains correspondence between British officials as to whether or not the Gulf states should be compelled to partake in a League of Nations boycott of Italian goods.
This file consists of two letters received by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, Major Frederick Charles Leslie Chauncy, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, William Rupert Hay. The longer letter is a copy of a letter from the Political Resident to the Secretary of State for F...
'File 11/13 Instructions Regarding Submission of Diaries'
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This file contains instructions sent by the British Residency and Consulate General at Bushire to the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat. The file contains a series of instructions on the appropriate content and form of intelligence summaries sent on a regular basis from the variou...
The file consists of a single demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the India Office, dated 5 February 1937, discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa.
Treaties and undertakings in force between the British Government and the Rulers of Kuwait, 1841-1913
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The volumes are printed documents produced by the Government of India Foreign Department. The volumes contain transcripts of treaties and undertakings relating tyo Kuwait in English and (reading in from the rear of the volume) in Arabic. The treaties and undertakings reproduced are as follows: ...
File E.2. Turkish Activities on the Mainland Adjacent to Bahrain: (i) Qatar; (ii) Zakhnuniya Island; (iii) Hawar
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Yūsuf bin Aḥamad Kanoo [Kānū]; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī, ruler of Qatar. In addition,...
File E-15. Sayed Siddiq Hasan Khan Sahib I.A. Deputation to MECCA with Nejd Pilgrims and Consequent Arrangements
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain and Bushire, as well as with the Cvil Commissioner and High Commissioner at Baghdad and ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The correspondence concern the deputation of Siddiq Hasan, Indian Ass...
File 5/8 Attempt by Persian Government to Take Over Lighting and Buoying of the Persian Gulf
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This file contains correspondence between the following: Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, officiating British Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, Britis...
