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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Bahrain, 1905-1971 Level [41] Item

1. IOR/L/PS/10/83/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/2
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 4 'Bahrain: cargo landing arrangements'
Scope & Content:
Part four contains correspondence relating to a claim by the German firm Robert Wonckhaus & Company against the cargo-landing contractor at Bahrain for a failure to land goods. The correspondence is between the Foreign Office and the India Office. Further correspondence, included as enclosur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1907-Aug 1911
Extent:
1 item (36 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/124/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/124/1
Title:
File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of part two of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf: Quarantine. It contains correspondence regarding proposals for improving and financing quarantine arrangements and plague prevention measures at Bahrain. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:

1 item (56 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/155/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/155/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Fuwairat piracy case’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to an incident taking place at Fuwairat, Qatar, in October 1909, in which a Persian vessel bound for Bahrain carrying a cargo of goats and firewood, was alleged by its nakhuda to have been deliberately scuppered on rocks by the inhabitants of Fuwairat, and the cargo then ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1912
Extent:

29 folios

4. IOR/L/PS/10/156/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/156/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: acts of piracy by Ahmed bin Selman near Katif [Turkish discourtesy to commander of HMS “Lapwing” at Katif]’
Scope & Content:
Part 4 contains correspondence relating to attacks against Bahrain pearling dhows, committed by members of the Beni Hajir tribe and led by an individual named Ahmed bin Selman, in the waters around Bahrain and the Turkish administered territories of Katif [Al-Qaṭīf] and El Katr [Qatar]. The part...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Mar 1901-12 Aug 1908
Extent:

178 folios

5. IOR/L/PS/10/850/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/850/3
Title:
File 4673/1919 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Bahrein Mission to England 1919. Political business of Mission’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the visit of Mission (deputation) from Bahrein [Bahrain] to the United Kingdom in 1919. It includes correspondence regarding the reception of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein, and Abdullah’s son Muhammad-bin-Abdulla by King George...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1919-12 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 item (83 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/880/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/880/2
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- Bin Saud & H.M. Govt. H.M. Govt’s policy towards Bin Saud. Bin Saud’s Subsidy. Negotiations with Bin Saud’s envoy 1923.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the policy of the British Government towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, popularly known as Ibn Saud]. It includes papers relating to the following: the request from Bin Saud for an increase in his subsidy; the visit of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1920-17 Jan 1924
Extent:

1 item (182 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/925/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/925/1
Title:
File 6499/1920 Pt 1 'KOWEIT AFFAIRS: KOWEIT-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE; LOCAL UNPOPULARITY OF SHEIKH'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the Kuwait-Nejd boundary dispute. Correspondence discusses the arbitration of the British Government in the matter of the border of Kuwaiti territory under the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ] with that of the Ruler of Nejd [Najd], Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1920-28 Jul 1921
Extent:
1 item (144 folios)