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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/1/183-192 Place Bahrain, Persian Gulf, Asia

1. IOR/R/15/1/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/183
Title:
File 58 Bahrain affairs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to/from three British Residents at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones, Captain Herbert Frederick Disbrowe and Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly. A number of topics are discussed in the file, most prominent among them are the following: Relations between Britain a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1862-4 Apr 1868
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/184

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/184
Title:
12 File 323 I - Interference of Persian Agents in Bahrain Affairs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the Persian Government's claim of sovereignty over Bahrain and the actions of some its agents in connection to operations taken by the British Government against the chiefs of Bahrain that it had accused of acts of piracy. The correspondence include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
11 Nov 1869-18 Mar 1887
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/186
Title:
25 File 624 Biographical histories of noteworthy persons; information collected from officials at Muscat, Makran Coast, Gwadar
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a collection of biographies of 'noteworthy persons' within the political jurisdiction of the Residency in the Persian Gulf. There is some limited correspondence related to the collection of this information, which includes applications made by Edward Charles Ross, Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
Sep 1852-May 1884
Extent:
1 volume (430 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/191
Title:
Agreements with the Trucial Chiefs and also with the Chiefs of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This volume contains originals and copies of correspondence between Major Adelbert Cecil Talbot, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Her British Majesty's Consul General for Fars; Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India; Muḥammad Amīn bin Badr, temporary Residency ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1891-2 May 1900
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/192
Title:
‘37 File 483 Memorandum on Bahrain; Major E L Durand’s Notes on the Antiquities of Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s contents fall into two categories: Reports and memoranda on Bahrain, dated 1875, including a report on the rulers of Bahrain (folios 2-7); a history and genealogy of the Uttoobee [ʿUtūb] tribe (folios 9-10); names of the ʿUtūb rulers (folios 11-13); a memorandum on Bahrain (folios ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1875-20 Feb 1889
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)