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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, 1937-1947

1. IOR/R/15/2/520

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/520
Title:
‘File 13/11 Air communications with Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a copy of a single letter, dated 16 May 1942, from the Political Resident, Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, to Hugh Weightman, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department. In the letter Hay requests that one of the five weekly air services cur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/559

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/559
Title:
17/6 AMATEUR TRANSMITTING STATIONS
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to applications from three individuals, Trevor John Brown and Eric William Dennett of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, and Joseph Alexander Faithful of Cable and Wireless, for licences to practice amateur wireless transmitting in Bahrain. The correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1936-4 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/659
Title:
‘File 28/1 I Defence against parachutists, obstruction of aerodromes and landing grounds, etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and memoranda containing guidance relating to the perceived threat of enemy troops parachuting into British-Indian territory. Though the threat is most strongly perceived in the north-western provinces of India and Baluchistan, the guidance was distrib...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1940-13 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/562
Title:
File No. 17/9 MAILS BETWEEN BAHRAIN & IRAN
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Agent at Bahrain (Reginald George Evelin Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain, Secretary to the External Affairs Department of the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
21 Sep 1937-8 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (203 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/879

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/879
Title:
File 39/8 Oil Development, Middle East: Trans-Arabian pipe line
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the Political Resident at Bahrain about American interest in Middle East oil. The correspondence discusses a Trans-Arabian oil pipeline to the Mediterranean ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1943-24 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/527

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/527
Title:
‘File 13/22 India – Persian Gulf Air Route. India – U.K. Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the status of existing, and proposals for new, air routes running along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. Aside from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Bahrain, the principal correspondents in the file are representatives ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1946-1 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (67 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/609
Title:
'QATAR SUCCESSION'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the appointment of an heir to Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thanī, Ruler of Qatar, following the illness and death of his son and heir-apparent, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī. Details include: Ḥamad's illness and his role in the settlement of the conflict over Zubarah (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1944-28 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:
File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/706
Title:
‘File 28/17-B Action to be taken in the event of an entry into the war by Japan’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers relating both to Japan’s anticipated entry into the Second World War, and eventual entry in the wake of the Japanese Navy’s attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Correspondents in the file include the Political Agen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1940-14 Dec 1941
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/876

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/876
Title:
File 39/5 (10/5 III) Dissatisfaction among ARAMCO employees
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence with representatives of California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), from 1944 known as Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO), and between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India, and the Secretary o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1941-5 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (242 folios)