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1. IOR/F/4/574/14025

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/574/14025
Title:
‘Affairs of the Pachalic of Bagdad’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It mostly features reports sent by Claudius James Rich, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia. The main topics covered are: The deposition of Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1816-7 Jan 1819
Extent:
1 item (103 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 759-768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 759-768
Title:
The Recognition of Syud Toorkee as Ruler of Muscat
Scope & Content:
Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 34 of 1871, dated 23 June 1871, containing enclosures dated 20 May-16 June 1871. The enclosures relate to Muscat affairs, including: the position of Syud Toorkee bin Saeed [Sayyid Turkī bi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1871
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/445
Title:
PZ 6512/40 'Statesman's Year Book: Requests for revision of information regarding Persian Gulf etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from Mortimer Epstein, Editor of the Statesman's Year Book, to the India Office, firstly requesting revised information relating to the Trucial Sheikhs, and secondly acknowledging receipt of the revisions sent by J P Gibson, India Office. The file includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1940-9 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2142
Title:
Coll 6/69 'Affairs in the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of copies of received Colonial Office correspondence relating to political and domestic affairs in the Yemen. Of particular note are copies of two memoranda, forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor of Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and writt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1935-14 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B368
Title:
Memorandum by Colonel Cornwallis on the Future Policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to Subsidies to Chiefs of the Arabian Peninsula.
Scope & Content:
Printed memorandum issued by the Eastern (Arabia) Department of the Foreign Office and written by Lieutenant-Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis. The memorandum contains a statement of the policy that should in future be adopted by the British Government in regard to the payment of subsidies to rulers i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1920
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
Title:
Personalities, Arabia
Scope & Content:
The volume is Personalities, Arabia (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917). The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (185 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1865
Title:
‘File B/9 I (30/9-II) Residency Agent, Sharjah’s News Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a series of bi-monthly news summaries about events in Trucial Oman, for the years 1935 and 1936, compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah and sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The news summaries are also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1935-18 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (418 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/100
Title:
File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary. The main topics discussed include: The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1920-24 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/101
Title:
File 8/C Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud; Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of British Blockade of Land Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, for the period April 1918 to August 1918 relating to the main topics: Harry St John Bridger Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud. Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of the British blockade of land trade. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1918-2 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (191 folios)