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21. IOR/R/15/6/298-331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/298-331
Title:
File 9: Naval and Shipping
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Naval and Shipping' covers the movements, facilities, protocols, and regulation of shipping at Muscat, other Omani ports, and within the Persian Gulf. Subjects covered by the file, include: Movements of British Naval vessels and officers Movements of foreign vessels Visits of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
1923-1952
Extent:
34 files (1660 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/6/70-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/70-71
Title:
File 1 Arms Traffic
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series ‘File 1 Arms Traffic’ consists of one volume (1/1), and one file (also 1/1). The correspondence in this sub-sub-series is related to arms trafficking in Oman mainly in Muscat, Sur, Sohar, Dubai, Khor Fakkan, Masirah, Suwaiq, Sharjah, and the Batinah coastal towns. Among the ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1947
Extent:
2 files (388 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/6/143-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/143-144
Title:
File 6: Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
The Zanzibar files of the Political Agency, Muscat concern political affairs linking the Sultanate of Zanzibar with the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The main themes are political intrigues and unrest designed to bring about the deposition of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and his replacement w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1905
Extent:
2 files (162 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/6/470 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/470 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 23: Agriculture
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Agriculture' contains one file relating to the effort to control locust infestations in Oman.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1948
Extent:
1 file (258 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/6/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/391
Title:
File 11/43 Who's Who in Muscat and Oman
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1942-24 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file

26. IOR/R/15/6/469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/469
Title:
File 22/2 Opening of pilot balloon observatory at Muscat
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1946-31 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file

27. IOR/R/15/6/399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/399
Title:
File 11/53 Naval Periodical Summary
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of the 'Naval Periodical Summary - Persian Gulf' that was compiled by the Royal Navy Staff Officer (Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. These summaries contain details of the movement of ships and individuals ('personalities') around the region's numerous ports. In addit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1947-Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/6/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/144
Title:
File 6/1 ZANZIBAR
Scope & Content:
The file concerns two items of correspondence relating to Zanzibar. The first is an anonymous letter to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (in Arabic, with English translation), dated 14 February 1901, concerning Hilal bin Amr, former Vizier to the Sultan of Zanzibar. The letter warns the Sultan tha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1901-28 Feb 1905
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/6/471

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471
Title:
'War Censorship'
Scope & Content:
This volume pertains to the wartime censorship of communication to and from Muscat during the Second World War. In particular, the volume's papers contain instructions from the Government of India to the Political Agency in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple langua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1939-8 May 1942
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/6/384, f 139 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/384, f 139 1
Title:
Mattra
Scope & Content:
A black and white aerial photograph of Mattra [Muttrah] with a landing ground, the track to Mattra and the road to Muscat marked in pen.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1939
Extent:
1 photograph