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1. IOR/R/15/1/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199
Title:
‘File 5/6 I Brussels Conference and general rules and procedure on slave traffic’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence related to the distribution of the text of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 throughout the Persian Gulf region. The English version of the Act is on folios 32-37. William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Government of India in Bombay, sent Adelbert Talbot (Political ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1892-21 May 1925
Extent:

1 volume (137 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/200

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/200
Title:
‘File 5/65 I Question of disposal of emancipated slaves and proposal to check traffic between Muscat, Oman ports and Zanzibar’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between Government of India officials and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf, on the question of the disposal or repatriation of slaves manumitted in the Gulf region, in response to concerns from the Government of Bombay over the potential social conseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1889-14 Jul 1905
Extent:

1 volume (95 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/201
Title:
‘File 5/74 Practice attributed to British authorities of surrendering fugitive slaves’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in Bushire (Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm J. Meade) and his assistant (John Gaskin), the Political Agent Muscat (Major Christopher Fagan, and from October 1899 Major Percy Cox), and staff of the Government of India. Corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1897-14 May 1900
Extent:

1 volume (65 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/202
Title:
‘File 5/104 II,III Miscellaneous slave trade correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and papers related to miscellaneous slave trade correspondence: Correspondence between the Deputy Political Resident and the Political Agent in Muscat (Major Lionel Haworth) relating to an incident in June 1917, in which a pearl diver sought refuge at the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1913-27 Jan 1935
Extent:

1 volume (77 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/203

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/203
Title:
‘File 5/194 I,195 I, 179 III, 169 II, 104 IV Kidnapping of individuals; manumission of slaves at Kuwait and Bushire; miscellaneous slavery cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains miscellaneous slave trade correspondence, distilled from a number of original subject files, covering a disparate range of slavery related from a four-decade period. The contents of the original subject file 5/194 I relate to an incident in 1924 in which twenty-five members o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Jan 1906-24 Jul 1942
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/208
Title:
‘File 5/168 IV Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to thirty-five slave-related cases or subjects, the majority of which deal with straightforward procedures of manumission. In these cases, the Residency Agent at Sharjah (‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif) wrote to the Political Resident at Bushire, enclosing a st...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (469 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/209

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/209
Title:
‘File 5/168 V Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume is comprised of correspondence related to twenty-four manumission or other slave-related cases, received by the Political Residency from the Political Agents at Bahrain, Sharjah and Muscat. The majority of the cases are of a straightforward nature. The Political Residency received the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1931-26 Jun 1936
Extent:

1 volume (277 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/211
Title:
File 5/168 VII Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains in excess of 120 manumission statements, taken down by the Residency Agent ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi) at Sharjah between July 1938 and June 1939. Correspondence accompanying the statements sent by al-Razzaq includes details of the appearance of slaves as an indication of possibl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1938-28 Jun 1939
Extent:

1 volume (340 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/212
Title:
File 5/168 VIII Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to in excess of 100 manumission requests heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). The manumission statements were sent to the Political Resident for reference purposes only, all decisions on manumission cases in Sharjah now bein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1939-13 Dec 1940
Extent:

1 volume (203 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/213
Title:
‘File 5/183 (D 31) Manumission of slaves at Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the volume is related to a number of manumission cases involving Kuwaiti subjects heard between 1907 and 1909, either in Kuwait, or in another of the Political Agencies in the Gulf. A significant proportion of the file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident (Ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
22 Oct 1907-18 Oct 1920
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)