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Project / Collection India Office Records Place Kuwait, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141
Title:
Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman
Scope & Content:
The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:

1 volume (112 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/69
Title:
File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
Scope & Content:
The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/339
Title:
File 451/1913 Pt 1-2 'Koweit and Bahrein: Oil Deposits. Water Supply.'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence pertaining to two distinct topics. Part one discusses the possibility of discovering oil deposits in Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrein [Bahrain], with some reference also made to the potential for deposits to be found in Syria and the Farsa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1918
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/458
Title:
File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the survey of the Persian Gulf by RIMS Palinurus. The discussion in the volume relates to the objectives, route, and associated costs of the survey of the Persian Gulf. Further discussion surrounds t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1916
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/738

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/738
Title:
File 1407/1918 'Kowait Trade Reports. (1911-1930)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Kuwait trade reports for the years 1912-1930. The printed reports cover the period 1 April to 31 March and follow a similar format: a general narrative and sections on imports, exports, customs adm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1912-12 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 volume (368 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/882
Title:
File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/925
Title:
File 6499/1920 Pt 1-2 'Kuwait affairs'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/925/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/925/2. IOR/L/PS/10/925/1 concerns the Kuwait-Nejd boundary dispute. Correspondence discusses the arbitration of the British Government in the matter of the border of Kuwaiti territory under the Shaikh of Kuwait [Sālim bin Mubār...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1926
Extent:
1 volume (177 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/937/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/937/1
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 2 'Arabia: Nejd-Iraq and Nejd-Kuwait Boundaries; Iraq-Nejd Treaty; Nejd-Kuwait Agreement'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Iraq, Kuwait, and the British authorities. The majority of the correspondence is interdepartmental in nature and is between the Colonial Office and the India Office. Further correspondence, includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1922-2 Jul 1923
Extent:
1 item (179 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/989/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/989/1
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: oil'
Scope & Content:
The part comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the part relates to: The Kuwait oil concession (ff 108-111) A 'Memorandum on the British Commitments (during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1925
Extent:
1 item (324 folios)