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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Imam of Oman, 750-2009

1. IOR/R/15/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3
Title:
Vol 3 Letters Outward (from Bushire)
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters sent outwards from the Residency in Bushire between 1778 and 1787. The majority of the letters are sent to East India Company officials at Bussora [Basra] and Bombay. Letters are also sent to numerous ship captains and a limited number are sent to local rulers. The letters...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1778-22 Sep 1787
Extent:
1 volume, 252 items (180 pages)

2. IOR/R/15/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/23
Title:
Vol 23: Reports to the Government of Bombay respecting a British military expedition to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence primarily between Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government, and Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson. Other correspondents included in the volume are Major-General Lionel Smith; Mountstuart Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay; James Henderson, Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1820 ?-1 Aug 1821
Extent:
1 volume, 29 items (120 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

5. IOR/R/15/6/204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/204
Title:
File 8/20: MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RISE OF OMANIS
Scope & Content:
This file relates to British policy in Muscat and Oman. It contains extensive correspondence and memoranda from the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, mainly addressed to the Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, which discusses the rivalry betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1917-10 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 file (316 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/244
Title:
File 8/62 III PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES of OMAN.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the principal shaikhs and tribes of Oman. The bulk of the file consists of an account by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman' (ff 9-33), which provides written summaries of each of the main tribes and table...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1950-20 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/245
Title:
File 8/62 IV PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the principal shaikhs and tribes of Oman, and also to the Imam of Oman's administration. It largely consists of copies of (and various amendments to) two reports. The first of these is an account by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1950-25 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (137 folios)