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31. IOR/R/15/6/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/470
Title:
File 23/3 III Anti-locust campaign
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to an anti-locust campaign in Oman in 1945. The papers contain letters, telegrams, and reports by a number of agencies that were largely coordinated from the Political Agency in Muscat. These include the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit, as well as Indian, Egyptian...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1945-29 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (258 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/6/384, f 139 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/384, f 139 2
Title:
Muscat
Scope & Content:
A black and white aerial photograph of Muscat with the following marked on it in pen: The Sultan's Palace RAF Rest House and wireless station British Political Agency The Portuguese Fort The road to Mattra [Muttrah] from Muscat Mattra (in the background of the photograph).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1939
Extent:
1 photograph

33. IOR/R/15/6/123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/123
Title:
File 3/3 BOOKS ETC: B. MAPS.
Scope & Content:
The file contains covering letters and acknowledgements concerning maps. The maps concerned are: (1) blueprints of certain panoramic sketches drawn by Major Claude Edward Urquhart Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat, in the course of reconnaissances in the southern waters of Muscat and Oman (sent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1934-12 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/6/159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/159
Title:
File 6/12 Foreign Interests: Persian Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a complaint made by the Government of Iran of that Britain was 'intriguing' with Persian subjects in Baluchistan, the arrest of a British Indian subject by the Iranian Police and rumours of arms smuggling into Persian Baluchi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1934-11 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/6/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/71
Title:
FILE NO: 1/1 ARMS TRAFFIC
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams, letters, and extracts from intelligence summaries related to arms trafficking in Oman. The main correspondence is related to the recovery of boxes of small arms ammunition that were recovered by local inhabitants from shallow water off Ras al-Hadd in Oman. They are s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1946-1 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/6/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/124
Title:
File 3/3 Books etc.
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following title at the top of the notes (folio 13): 'BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS: MAPS.' The file contains correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and other British officials, concerning the despatch to the Political Agency, Muscat of miscellaneous charts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/6/375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/375
Title:
File 11/24 Who's Who
Scope & Content:
This file contains a list of individuals resident in Gwadur alleged by the British authorities to be 'bad characters and disturbers of the peace'. The list is divided into two sections, 'Hindus' and 'Aga Khanis' [Isma'ilis], and contains entries for a total of twelve individuals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/6/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/456
Title:
File 17/2 Horticulture'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and documents regarding the creation and management of a garden attached to the Political Agency in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency in Muscat and various horticultural suppliers and specialists in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/6/282, f 55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/282, f 55
Title:
WATER SUPPLY
Scope & Content:
Photograph of Pradhan Singh, State Engineer, with Ibrahim Muhammad, Naqib of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's Retinue, at the Jirziz spring head, Dhofar. This photograph is part of a series of photographs that appear at the end of a preliminary report on the land resources of Dhofar, produced by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 photograph

40. IOR/R/15/6/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/131
Title:
[Un-numbered file] Instructions regarding flying of flags.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request for clarification from the British Agent, Gwadur [Gwadar] on when it was permissible to fly the flag at the British Agency (answer: when the Political Agent, or the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf landed there), 1945-46; and correspondence between the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Dec 1945-2 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)