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51. 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)

52. IOR/L/PS/10/920

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/920
Title:
File 5924/1920 Pt 1 ‘Persia: Financial Position of Persian Govt. Possibility of consolidating external debt’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding British claims on their loans to Persia [Iran], and Persia’s financial affairs generally. The papers notably cover: Details of the loans, including British claims, recovery of interest owed, and regulation ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Jan 1920-22 Jan 1924
Extent:

1 volume (421 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/296
Title:
PZ 4501/1939 'Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure: Statements showing expenditure incurred by the Govmt. of India on D. & C. services in Iran & Kuwait during 1936/37.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers concerning expenditure on diplomatic and consular services in Iran and the Persian Gulf from 1936 to 1940. It includes correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office; the Treasury; the Government of India, External Affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1939-23 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/446

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/446
Title:
PZ 6556/40 'Hawking of Sterling Notes in the Middle East.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the British Consul General, Beirut, the British Ambassador to Iraq, the Foreign Office and the Treasury, regarding the smuggling of Sterling notes into the Middle East, and possible ways to end the practice.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1940-5 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/787
Title:
Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-194...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/791
Title:
Ext 424/43 'Application for Swiss francs to pay for import of watches in Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Thefile consists primarily of letters between the Secretary of State for ForeignAffairs, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Treasury about a Swissapplication to send watches to Kuwait. The Foreign Exchange Control and theLocal Government accept the Swiss application and the watches are...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1942-7 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/1456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1456
Title:
Coll 1/20 'Aden Staff and Establishment: Personal Assistant to the Chief Commissioner'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner), the Colonial Office, the War Office, the Foreign and Political Department for the Government of India, and the Treasury, regarding the appointment of military officers as Personal Assistant or Aide-de-Camp to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1932-24 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)