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101. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/12/3938

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3938
Title:
Coll 30/197 ‘Persian Gulf. Special War Measures – Allocation of war-time expenditure. Appt. of Political Officer on Trucial Coast & addtl staff in the Gulf. Inc. Censorship (staff) Arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to special measures, mainly consisting of the recruitment of extra staff, taken by British authorities in the Persian Gulf in the event of war and during the Second World War. These special measures included the appointment of a Political Officer for the Trucial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1938-21 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (151 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/12/3968A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3968A
Title:
Coll 30/224 'Currency Arrangements in the Arab Sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns currency issues affecting the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, following the transfer of administrative responsibility from the Government of India to the Persian Gulf Residency in 1947. Under the new arrangements, responsibility for exchange control was vested in the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1947-29 Sep 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (302 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/12/3968B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3968B
Title:
Coll 30/224 'Currency Arrangements in the Arab Sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns currency arrangements in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf that were under British influence. The papers cover: allegations by the Government of Pakistan and in the Pakistani press of discrimination against Pakistan currency in Bahrain; exchange control policy; 'Report on Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1948-14 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

105. IOR/L/PS/12/4090

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4090
Title:
Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and slave traffic in the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula. Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Treasury, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, come...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Feb 1922-27 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (444 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

107. IOR/L/PS/18/B14b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14b
Title:
Report of a committee on the Muscat subsidy and the Zanzibar Agency and Consulate
Scope & Content:
A printed report, written by a Committee formed by Louis Mallet, Henry Cadogan Rothery and William Henry Wylde, 8 December 1876. The Committee was nominated by H M's Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for India, to determine whether the Imperial Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1876
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/18/C150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C150
Title:
Telegraph Lines in Eastern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, which is attributed to Hermann Anderson Haines, Secretary, Public Works Department, and which provides a brief account of a number of agreements reached between the Government of India and the Persian Government (and between the Government of India and HM Treasury...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/18/C200

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C200
Title:
Memorandum on the Financial Obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Governments respectively in relation to Telegraph Lines in Persia.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum concerning the financial obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Governments respectively in relation to telegraph lines in Persia. The memorandum is divided into sections as follows: Jask royalty and claims for wilful damage (the claims in question bein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1920
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

110. IOR/L/PS/18/C216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C216
Title:
The Persian Debt to the Government of India and His Majesty's Government.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum describing the historical background to the Persian debt to the Government of India and to the British Government. The memorandum records a number of proposals for debt relief put forward by the Government of India, the Foreign Office and the Chancellor, made o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1929
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)