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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15

1. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

2. IOR/R/15/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2
Title:
Political Agency, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The political (IOR/R/15/2) and judicial (IOR/R/15/3) series of the Political Agency, Bahrain, make up the largest collection in the IOR/R/15 group. The arrangement of the IOR/R/15/2 series reflects the three branches into which the Agency was divided: namely the Confidential Office 1899-1951, th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1899-1953
Extent:
2022 files

3. IOR/R/15/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/3
Title:
Political Agency, Bahrain: Court Records
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain Court Records are records of cases heard by the Courts established under the Bahrain Order in Council. Unlike the Court records of Kuwait and Muscat, they have survived in great numbers and contain a wealth of social and economic data, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1950
Extent:
11,586 files

4. IOR/R/15/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4
Title:
Residency Agency, Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
Very few files have survived from the Residency Agency, probably because there was little methodical record keeping before the appointment of the British Political Officer in 1939. The series contains only seventeen files dating from 1930 to 1951. Subjects covered include boundaries, Sharjah Air ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
17 files (1878 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5
Title:
Political Agency, Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait Agency archives cover the period from the establishment of the post in 1904 to 1949, the last year for which files were returned to the India Office Records. The papers were originally numbered in three separate series. First Series files, 1904-1929 (R/15/5/1-108) contain considerabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
397 files and volumes

6. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes