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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Emir of Kuwait, 1718- Level [41] Item

1. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 16 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by des...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1839-16 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 item (130 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470
Title:
Measures Adopted for Suppressing the 'Slave Trade'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 107 of 1847, dated 31 December 1847. The enclosures relate to British attempts to suppress the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people]....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1847
Extent:
1 item (168 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/880/1
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- General question of subsidies to Arab Rulers.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the question of subsidies paid to Arab rulers, including Ibn Saud, the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait], and the King of the Hedjaz. The main correspondents are as follows: the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Treasury; the Foreign Office; the Government of India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1920-6 Apr 1925
Extent:

1 item (99 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1222/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222/1
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1 'Iraq: Question of exemption from taxation of Shaikhs of Kuwait & Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and other papers concerning the question of a tax exemption on date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The papers cover: a review of Britain's historic commitments in the region; increasing opposition to the exempti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1927-5 Feb 1931
Extent:
1 item (607 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1
Title:
No. 1. Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Collection of documents signed on July 29, 1913.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a collection of documents signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) on 29 July 1913. It contains the following: a convention concerning the establishment of a commission to improve the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jul 1913
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)