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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Colonial Office, 1854-1966

11. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/663/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/663/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 11 ‘Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying Service. Iraq law for the levy of light dues.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf, hitherto carried out by the Royal Indian Marine. The papers specifically discuss the Government of Iraq arranging for the collection of dues from ships entering or leaving Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1923-28 Jul 1927
Extent:

1 item (98 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/740

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/740
Title:
File 1647/1918 Pts1-2 'HEDJAZ: MECCA HOSTEL; BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE AT MECCA'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of two parts, Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/740/1) and Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/740/2), both of which contain papers relating to the planned establishment of a hostel at Mecca to house pilgrims from the British Empire, and the appointment of a British Muslim Representative at Mecca to look...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1918-14 Aug 1923
Extent:
1 volume (341 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/800
Title:
File 638/1919 ‘Muscat:- Commercial Treaty with Gt. Britain – Prolongation of.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the prolongation of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Great Britain and Maskat (Muscat), signed on 19 March 1891. It mostly consists of correspondence regarding the extension of the Treaty for a further year for each year between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1919-27 May 1930
Extent:

1 volume (240 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/843
Title:
File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to the visit, as state guests, of a deputation (Mission) from Koweit [Kuwait], including Sheikh Ahmad bin Jabar [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], the heir to the Emir of Koweit [Kuwait], and a deputation (Mission) from Najd (Nejd), including Faisal ibn ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1919-28 Mar 1924
Extent:

1 volume (428 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/10/880/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/880/2
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- Bin Saud & H.M. Govt. H.M. Govt’s policy towards Bin Saud. Bin Saud’s Subsidy. Negotiations with Bin Saud’s envoy 1923.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the policy of the British Government towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, popularly known as Ibn Saud]. It includes papers relating to the following: the request from Bin Saud for an increase in his subsidy; the visit of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1920-17 Jan 1924
Extent:

1 item (182 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/10/881

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/881
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 3 ‘Hedjaz:- Relations between H.M. Govt & King Hussein. Question of subsidy. Negotiations for conclusion of a treaty.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers concerning relations between the British Government and the King of Hedjaz [Hejaz or Al-Hijaz]. Most of the papers relate to negotiations between the British Government and King Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi over the terms of an Anglo-Hashimite treaty, and revisions to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 May 1921-25 Aug 1925
Extent:

1 volume (466 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/10/913/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/913/2
Title:
MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF BAGHDADI OFFICERS & FAMILIES FROM SYRIA
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume is concerned with the repatriation expenses of Mesopotamian [Iraqi] officers expelled from Syria, and their families [based in Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem] who are unable to make their own arrangement to return to Iraq. In particular, it is concerned with: the number o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1920-19 Sep 1921
Extent:

1 item (159 folios)