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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Emir of Mohammerah, c 1800-1936

1. IOR/F/4/1912/81798

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1912/81798
Title:
‘Mahomerah – Sheik of – Refuses to allow certain Government Coal to be taken from that place.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the sixth in a series of seven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1912/81793, 81794, 81795, 81796, 81797, and 81799). T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1839-20 May 1841
Extent:
1 item (19 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2302/118766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2302/118766
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Opposition offered by the Shaik of Mohumrah to the trade of British subjects with that Port – Vol: 40’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1848-31 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 251-260
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs: Matters Relating to the Anglo-Persian War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 16 dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure is also dated 27 January 1857. The enclosure comprises a despatch, dated 22 December 1856, from C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 14-21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 14-21
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 3 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 February 1860. The Enclosure is dated 25 November 1859. Received 6 March 1860. The Enclosure consists of despatches from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, to HBM's Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1860
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/41/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41/2
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 3 ‘Mohammerah: Kherkha River Irrigation Scheme’
Scope & Content:
The part contains papers related to proposals for irrigation schemes. This includes a proposal that the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] should be supported by the British Government in a bid to obtain a concession for an irrigation scheme on the Karun River Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1909-12 Sep 1910
Extent:

1 item (126 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/59
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 4 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; proposals of Turkish Govt; status of Kowait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1911-1912. The correspondence concerns three broad topics: Anglo-Turkish negotiations proposals of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1912
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/132
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: situation. British assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the situation regarding British assurances to the Sheikh of Mohammerah. The volume includes a description of the Sheikh's perception that, despite his good behaviour towards the British he has not been afforded the support provided to other Arab sheikhs in the Gulf a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/169
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 2 Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; buoyage of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters, reports and memoranda concerning the lighting and buoyage of the Shatt al-Arab. Correspondence discusses the poor state of the buoys and need for repainting; a re-survey of the Shatt al-Arab in order the prevent the Germans from gaining influence. Also discussed is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/262
Title:
File 1247/1912 Pts 1-2 'KOWEIT & MOHAMMERAH ANGLO-TURKISH AGREEMENT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1896-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)