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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902 Name High Commissioner, Iraq, 1920-1932

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2845
Title:
Coll 17/1 'Iraq-Nejd Relations: Bon Voisinage Agreement and Extradition; Treaty of Friendship, 1936'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers regarding relations between the Government of Iraq and the Government of Hejaz and Najd (later Saudi Arabia). It documents negotiations for the conclusion of the 1931 Bon Voisinage Agreement, Arbitration Protocol and Extradition Treaty, and the 1936 Treaty of Friendship...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1931-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (428 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2847

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2847
Title:
Coll 17/3 'Iraq. Oudh Bequest'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India, the Office of the High Commissioner for Iraq, and Saiyid Kalbe Abbas Naqvi, Honorary Secretary of the Waqf Section of the All-India Shia Conference. The correspondence concerns the administration of the Oudh Bequest Fund, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1931-18 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2848

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2848
Title:
Coll 17/4 'Iraq-Syria & Syria-Transjordan frontier: delimitation'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding negotiations to amend the borders between French-mandated Syria, and British-mandated Iraq and Trans-Jordan. The papers discuss the boundaries established by the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Treaty of Sèvres, the British push for the inclusion of Amadiyah within the Iraq mandat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1921-27 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 volume (386 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2849

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2849
Title:
Coll 17/5 'Iraq. Relations with Turkey'
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following reports submitted by HM Ambassador to Turkey, Sir George Russell Clerk: Report on the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq (General Nuri Pasha) to Turkey, to discuss frontier delimitation, the Mosul Oilfields, the Iraqi policy towards the Kurds, French attempts at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1930-24 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2850

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2850
Title:
Coll 17/6 'Iraq and Persia: judicial cooperation agreement'
Scope & Content:
Copy correspondence between the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs ('Abdulla Beg Al Damluji, then Ja'far Al 'Askari), the High Commissioner for Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), and the Government of Persia [Iran], regarding discussions over a proposed Judicial Co-operation Agreement. The corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1931-27 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2851

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2851
Title:
Coll 17/7(1) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, reports and minutes regarding road and rail transport through Iraq, Trans-Jordan [Jordan], Palestine, Syria and Iran. The following topics are discussed in detail: The proposed construction of a Baghdad-Haifa rail route. The file also includes records regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Apr 1929-23 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 volume (524 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2854

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2854
Title:
Coll 17/8(2) 'Shaikh of Koweit's Estates: Date gardens of the Shaikh in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2853. It consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding date garden properties in Iraq owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, changes to their tax-exempt status, and lawsuits regarding their ownership. Properties owned by the Shaikh of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1934-22 May 1936
Extent:
1 volume (619 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2882
Title:
Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq. It includes: Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies. Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (89 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2885

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2885
Title:
Coll 17/23(S) 'Iraq. Attachment of Iraqis to British Consulates abroad for training in consular work.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the following: the proposal by the Prime Minister of Iraq that Iraqi officials should be employed in British Consulates, for the purpose of training them in consular work until Iraqi Consulates could be established in neighbouring countries to Iraq, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1927-17 Apr 1930
Extent:
1 file (124 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2886

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2886
Title:
Coll 17/24 ‘Iraq. Internal. New Iraqi Income Tax Law. Effect on British aircraft and shipping.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the following: the objections of HM Government to Article 6 of the draft Iraq Salaries and Allowances Tax Law of 1930; and the liability of British aircraft and shipping companies operating in Iraq to income tax under Article 29 of the Iraq Income Tax ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1930-9 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)