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1. IOR/L/PS/10/51/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the claims of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr] against the competing claims of the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the British Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1903-11 Apr 1910
Extent:

113 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/10/856/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/2
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; India Office draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1919-30 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (90 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/448/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/448/1
Title:
File 1032/1914 Pt 1 'Persia. Trade with Persian Gulf Ports'
Scope & Content:
Part 1 relates to trade with Persian Gulf ports, specifically the tea trade, and the impact of trade restrictions imposed by the Government of India in Southern Persia. It includes the following subject matters: concerns about the increase in imports of tea into Persia from Russia, in contrast t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1913-26 Oct 1916
Extent:
1 item (97 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/75/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/75/1
Title:
File 600/1905 Pt 4 'Aden Hinterland: Proposed Treaties with the Sultans of Beda and Audali; Treaty with Beda held in abeyance'
Scope & Content:
Part 4 of the file relates to negotiations over treaties with the Beda and Audali tribes of the Aden hinterland. The correspondents include: Political Residency at Aden; Government of Bombay; Viceroy of India; India Office, London; Foreign Office, London. The papers cover several matters, inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1903-Dec 1914
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/659/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/3
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1C 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Henjam lighthouse'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the sanction of expenditure and arrangements for the construction of a lighthouse on the island of Henjam after the First World War. Notable correspondents include the following: various departments of the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1917-22 Nov 1926
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/190/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/190/1
Title:
File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1905-13 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 item

7. IOR/L/PS/10/661/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/661/3
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 5 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Inspection & overhauling of Lighthouses etc., Cuthbert Deputation'
Scope & Content:
This part contains interdepartmental correspondence discussing the need for the overhauling of lighthouses and lightships in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses arrangements for a tour of inspection, as well as the more general issue of financing lighting and buoying in the Gulf. Not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1922-10 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/390/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 10 'N.W. Frontier: Proposed Russian zoological expedition'
Scope & Content:
The title provided at the beginning of this item does not relate in any way to the item's contents. Part 10 is in fact concerned with the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 May 1919-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 item (330 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/576/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576/1
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department, which was set up to co-ordinate Arabian and Islamic intelligence in the face of German and Turkish propaganda, which had been making rapid headway in the region during the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1915-6 Mar 1918
Extent:

1 item

10. IOR/L/PS/10/661/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/661/6
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 8 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Reorganisation of the Persian Gulf Light Service.'
Scope & Content:
This part contains interdepartmental correspondence relating to the reorganisation of the Persian Gulf Light Service. Matters discussed include the following: the possibility of dues being collected from ships using the Gulf, as an alternative means of financing the present service or a reduced...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1922-12 Oct 1926
Extent:
1 item (20 folios)