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File 19/2 III The Honourable the Political Resident's tours
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Bahrain, Tehran, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and the Trucial Coast, between 1934 and 1937. The file contains programmes of the visits, seating plans for offici...
File [VIIIB/2] MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: Zanzibar Subsidy and Arms Subsidy
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns two subsidies paid by the Government of India to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, which are referred to in the correspondence as the Zanzibar subsidy and the arms traffic subsidy. The latter subsidy is referred to as initially having been granted to Sultan Faisal bin Turki [Fa...
File 6/2 I Recruits for the Bahrain State Police and Supply of Clothing, Arms, and Ammunition for them
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the following: Political Agent, Bahrain; Commandant of the Bahrain Levy Corps (State Police); Kirkee Arsenal; Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); Government of India (Foreign and Political Department, Adjutant General, Contr...
File 14/1 Correspondence regarding calls of mail steamers at Bahrain and general correspondence regarding postal matters
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The file contains telegrams, correspondence and notices regarding postal matters: conveyance of mail at Bahrain, dispatch of mail from Bahrain, air mail service, shipping, postal facilities in the Persian Gulf area, and restriction of telecommunications and mail services to other countries durin...
Correspondence Relating to Ibn Saud Circulated to Kuwait by Other Gulf Posts
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also written as Bin Saud in the file], Amir of Nejd [Emir of Najd], forwarded to the Political Agency, Kuwait, by other British officials in the Gulf region. The correspondence primarily c...
‘Old Index Book No 159 From January 1848 To December 1848’ Vol 159 Outward letter book, 1848
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent in 1848 by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and also to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Farrant, Br...
Vol 173: '1851/52 Residency in the Persian Gulf, English Correspondence No 5, Persia and Persian Coast'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent to and from the Bushire Residency; the principal correspondents being Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia. The main subject covered is therefore the int...
17 File 592 I Runaway Sailors and Divers, Agreement with Trucial Chiefs for their Prevention
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This file contains correspondence between British officials and the various chiefs of the Trucial Coast regarding arrangements concerned with runaway sailors and divers in the area. The file contains several letters and other documents in Arabic (with English translations) sent from the Britis...
Vol. D.16 (File 61/4) Bin Saood - Amir of Nejd's intention to visit Pirate Coast and Oman in 1905
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, handwritten notes, diary extracts, and drafts of the above concerning a rumoured visit by Ibn Sa'ud, ruler of Najd, to the Trucial Coast and Oman. The bulk of the file is correspondence between the Political Residency in Bushire, ...
File 22/4 Miscellaneous Papers re: DEPOSITION OF SHAIKH KHALID - AGREEMENT BETWEEN SHAIKH KHALID AND SHAIKH OF SHARJAH, ETC
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The file begins with a memorandum from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, reporting the deposition of Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad, the Ruler of Sharjah (also spelt Shargah) by his nephew Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr in 1924, together with an Ara...
