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File 8/10 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUNICIPAL & OTHER TAXES
Scope & Content:
This file relates to taxes in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the payment (or non-payment) of certain taxes by British subjects. Related matters covered in the correspondence include the following: the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat's request that the Sultan of Muscat and Oman make th...
File 8/50 Muscat State Affairs: Saiyid Ali bin Faisal
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Saiyid Ali bin Faisal [Sayyid ‘Alī bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd], uncle of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. It specifically relates to Ali bin Faisal's admission to a Government of India mental hospital at Yeravda (also spelled Yaravda) in Poona [Pune], ...
File 8/60 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSSANNAH AND YAL SA'AD.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the Yal Sa`ad [Yāl Sa‘d], a tribe based on the Batinah coast. The correspondence discusses the reported resistance of Yal Sa`ad tribesmen to the establishment of customs houses in the area. It also discusses reported smuggling and slave trafficking by the tribe, and the grou...
This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Omani tribes. It includes accounts of meetings between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) and the Sultan, discussing the Sultan's efforts ...
File 8/65 V MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RENEWAL OF COMMERCIAL TREATY
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This file relates to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and Muscat. The original treaty of 1891 was given a term of twelve years, which was extended at regular intervals afterwards, initially for several years at a time and later on an annual basis. In 1939 a replacement treaty was signed bet...
Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/260), this file relates to the termination and proposed replacement of the 1939 Commercial Treaty between Britain and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. Most of the correspondence concerns the drafting of a new treaty between the two parties (even...
File 8/78 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RENDITION OF GWADUR TO KALAT.
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This file concerns British policy regarding the Muscat territory of Gwadur [Gwadar, Pakistan; it is written as Gwadar in some of the correspondence]. The correspondence includes the following: Discussion in 1913-1914 as to whether the Government of India should consider the cession (the correspo...
File 19/163 I (C 33) Bin Saud's relations with Shaikh of Bahrain. Nejdi Agent's activities in Bahrain
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This file contains documents regarding relations between the British, Bin Saud and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa between 1923 and 1931. The documents discuss the Persian-Nejdi violence that occurred in Bahrain in 1923, the activities and expulsion of Bin Saud's agent in Bahrain (Abdullah Al ...
File 26/157 (F 66) Arabistan and Luristan: Representation in, changes resulting from the War
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, memoranda and reports pertaining to British governmental representation in Arabistan [Khūzestān]. The correspondents include the Political Resident at Bushire, the British Minister at Tehran, the High Commissioner at Baghdad, the British Consul at Mohammer...
'File No: 1.b/2. Major Head:- Administration SubHead:- General. Subject:- Finances of the Bahrain State.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning the finances of the Bahrain State including correspondence between Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident Persian Gulf; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; and Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa [Sheikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler o...
