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1. IOR/R/15/1/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/378
Title:
File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership
Scope & Content:
The file relates to proposals to prospect for oil at Gwadar (mainly referred to in the papers as 'Gwadur'), and discussions over the ownership and proposed cession of the area, which was in the territory of the Sultan of Muscat. The file includes the following papers: correspondence concerning ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1913-8 Aug 1928
Extent:
1 volume (159 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/687
Title:
'D.178 86/13-III KUWAIT NEUTRAL ZONE'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (William Rupert Hay); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Gordon Noel Jackson, Maurice O’Connor Tandy); the India Office (later the Commonwealth Relations Office, Eion Pelly Donaldson, Adrian Harbottle Reed, Ralph Ing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1946-3 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (300 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/696

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/696
Title:
'Confidential 86/22 - i A.78. GWADAR OIL'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence in English and Arabic between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts), the India Office (John Percival Gibson, John Charles Walton), the Secretary to the Government of India, Ext...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/433

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/433
Title:
File 14/2 [Vol. 2]I GWADUR OIL
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in Gwadur which formed part of the territories of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and dependencies. The discussion in the file concerns: Negotiations over oil concessions in Gwadur Corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1939-23 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)