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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name IOR/R/15/5/66

1. IOR/R/15/1/556-609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/556-609
Title:
File 61: Najd
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Najd region, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and its ruler, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd, commonly known as Ibn Sa‘ūd. The papers cover the period from Ibn Sa‘ūd's rise to prominence after taking Riyadh in 1902, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1905-1944
Extent:
54 files and volumes (12,432 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/75
Title:
File No 1/2 Matters affecting the Sultan of Najd
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agents at Bahrain at the time, Major Cyril Charles Gordon Barrett, then Captain Reginald George Evelin Alban and Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior, the Government of India and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1928-23 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/930
Title:
File 4/9 (2/7) "AL BAHRAIN" NEWSPAPER
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following a formal protest made by Ibn Sa’ud (King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia) to the Minister at the British Legation in Jeddah, about publication of an article in the newspaper Al Bahrain on 26 November 1942. The correspondence is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1942-21 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/74
Title:
File 1/2 (Vol I) Matters affecting the Sultan of Najd
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Secretariat of the High Commissioner in Baghdad and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) , Sultan of Najd and Dependencies...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1921-12 Jun 1928
Extent:
1 volume (247 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/56-58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/56-58
Title:
File 4 British Interests
Scope & Content:
These Confidential subject files contain diary entries for the years and quarantine reports for the years 1913-17, and secret commercial intelligence reports on the activities of Hamburg-Amerika Linie for the year 1913-1914. Among the topics covered within the diary entries are: the First World W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1913-1917
Extent:
3 files (583 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/331
Title:
File 19/126 II (C 29) Bahrain Customs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the administration of the Customs House in Bahrain from 1914 until 1929. The earlier correspondence relates to a disagreement between Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa and Bin Saud regarding tariff charges on goods entering and leaving Bahrain from the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 May 1914-18 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/597
Title:
File 61/18 [II] (D 125) Bin Saud
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the development of formal communications between Najd and Bahrain, and the wider Gulf and Indian region. The first of two items in the file is a letter (dated 28 January 1932) from the Special Secretary to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) King ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1932-19 Feb 1932
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/706
Title:
File 61/8 Bin Saud's Relations with Trucial Chiefs
Scope & Content:
The file concerns relations between Ibn Sa'ud (also referred to in the papers as Ibn Saud, Bin Saud, and Bin Sa'ud) [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)] and the Rulers of the Trucial States. The papers include reports in Arabic with separate English translations f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1923-5 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/21
Title:
Customs Duty on Goods Landed at Bahrain in Transit to the Mainland
Scope & Content:
The volume records a dispute between the Ruler of Nejd [Najd] and dependencies and the Ruler of Bahrain [occasionally also referred to in the papers as Bahrein] over the imposition by the Ruler of Bahrain of a charge of 5% customs duty (previously 2.5%) on goods destined for Nejd and Hassa [Hasa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1920-3 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/24-44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/24-44
Title:
File E: Mainland
Scope & Content:
The Mainland files contain correspondence concerning Eastern Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Included within the correspondence are details concerning: copies of papers from the Bushire files relating to Bahrain affairs between 1862 and 1895; the treatment and status of Hindu merchants in Eastern Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1900-1921
Extent:
21 files and volumes (4518 folios)