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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Government of India, Foreign Secretary, 1843-1937

1. IOR/R/15/6/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/193
Title:
File 8/11 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: ASSESSMENT OF ZAKAT.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns zakat revenue from date cultivation in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It discusses the findings of a recent assessment of the Sultanate's date producing districts, which was undertaken by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, Captain Reginald George Evelyn William Alban...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1932-26 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/158
Title:
File 2/6 'King Faisal's visit to Kuwait (and Gulf ports)'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding a proposed visit by King Fayṣal bin ̒Alī al-Hāshimī to Kuwait. The file consists of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, and HM Foreign Office, regarding the British desire to discourage such a visit....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1932-19 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/238
Title:
File 8/60 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSSANNAH AND YAL SA'AD.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the Yal Sa`ad [Yāl Sa‘d], a tribe based on the Batinah coast. The correspondence discusses the reported resistance of Yal Sa`ad tribesmen to the establishment of customs houses in the area. It also discusses reported smuggling and slave trafficking by the tribe, and the grou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1920-8 Sep 1925
Extent:
1 file (131 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/43
Title:
File 11/5 Titles. Koweit 15 Recommendations for Titles and Honours
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Ruler of Kuwait, Mubarak us Subah (Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ); his successor Shaikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department; the Secretary to the Most Exalted Order of the Star ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1907-2 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/77
Title:
File 27/12 V TRADE REPORT 1923/24 1924/25 1925/26 1926/27 1927/28
Scope & Content:
These two volumes (parts 1 and 2) contain the Kuwait trade reports for each financial year from 1923-1924 up to and including 1927-1928. As documented in the volumes, advanced copies of the reports are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Major James Carmichael More), to the Persian Gulf P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
26 Sep 1921-3 Nov 1928
Extent:

2 volumes (392 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/74
Title:
File 27/12 II Kuwait Trade Reports from 1917-18 to 1923-24
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily concerns the preparation and submission of annual trade reports. Most of the volume consists of copies of trade reports for Kuwait (for each financial year from 1917-1918 up to and including 1923-1924), which are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait [Captain Daniel Vinc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1919-1 Apr 1924
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/170
Title:
File 3/1 I Seizure or Detention of Kuwait sailing craft by Persians
Scope & Content:
This file relates to several cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized or detained by the Persian authorities. The file consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and various British diplomatic officials. Most of the correspondence concerns the circumstances of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1932-21 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/191
Title:
Agreements with the Trucial Chiefs and also with the Chiefs of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This volume contains originals and copies of correspondence between Major Adelbert Cecil Talbot, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Her British Majesty's Consul General for Fars; Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India; Muḥammad Amīn bin Badr, temporary Residency ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1891-2 May 1900
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/188
Title:
File [VIIIB/2] MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: Zanzibar Subsidy and Arms Subsidy
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns two subsidies paid by the Government of India to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, which are referred to in the correspondence as the Zanzibar subsidy and the arms traffic subsidy. The latter subsidy is referred to as initially having been granted to Sultan Faisal bin Turki [Fa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1921-25 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)