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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Emir of Qatar, Mid 19th century-

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3963
Title:
Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar. The papers include: reports by the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1941-7 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B402
Title:
El Katr, 1908-1916
Scope & Content:
Memorandum covering: the status and governance of El Katr [Qatar], relations with His Majesty's Government, and treaties with and affecting El Katr during the period 1908-28. Written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3895
Title:
Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the disputed claims of the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands. The issue arose afresh in 1936 in response to a request from Petroleum Concessions Limited to settle the issue of ownership, in order that the Company could claim oil concession rights...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1936-15 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 696-700

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 696-700
Title:
Affairs in Guttur
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 347 of 1869, dated 18 October 1869,containing enclosures dated 5 August-2 October 1889. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto the currently friendly state of British relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3883
Title:
Coll 30/148 'Qatar: Question of ownership of Zubarah.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispute between the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar concerning sovereignty over Zubarah on the Qatar mainland. Zubarah was said to have 'considerable sentimental value' (folio 68) to the Al Khalifah family, as they originally came from there to take over Bahrain; however, in bo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1937-16 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (147 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B181
Title:
British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum on Lieutenant-Colonel Cox's telegram reports in Government of India's telegram of 1 December 1910.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum concerns British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf and was written by Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in December 1910. The immediate question it addresses is 'the desirability of concluding a treaty with a Sheikh or Sheikhs of the El Katr [Qatar] peninsula as a bulwark against T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1910
Extent:
5 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3322
Title:
Coll 25/18 'Orders-in-Council: Qatar: Jurisdiction over foreigners in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minute papers, and notes relating to the issue of The Qatar Order in Council, 1939. The correspondence is mostly between officials at the Foreign Office, India Office, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (later, E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1935-8 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C243
Title:
‘Persian Gulf gazetteer. Part 1. Historical and political materials. Précis of Katar [Qatar] affairs, 1873-1904.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Confidential’ on the front cover, is part 1 (historical and political materials) of a précis of Qatar (spelt Katar throughout) affairs for the years 1873 to 1904. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1904 by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (46 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3936

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3936
Title:
Coll 30/195 ‘Persian Gulf Defence QATAR.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Qatar. It includes a copy of a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq, 8 August 1938, concerning the defence of Qatar, including the possibe need to protect an oil field an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 August 1938-29 Jan 1943
Extent:

1 file (26 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3943

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3943
Title:
Coll 30/203 ‘Persian Gulf. Qatar – Proposed engagement of an “adviser on foreign affairs” by the sheikh.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to suspicions that Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar, desired to obtain an Iraqi adviser on foreign affairs, and objections to this by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the India Office, and the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1940-13 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)