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037-000227551 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name King of Bahrain, 1783-

1. IOR/R/15/1/175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/175
Title:
Wrecks, Maritime outrages
Scope & Content:
This volume is concerned with 'outrages' committed by the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bokha [Barka’, Oman] on the people of Shargah [Sharjah] whose boat foundered off his town. It is also concerned with fines exacted and the recovery of payments from various Shaikhs incurred for acts of piracy, the coerc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1859-10 May 1860
Extent:
1 volume, 17 items (32 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/183
Title:
File 58 Bahrain affairs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to/from three British Residents at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones, Captain Herbert Frederick Disbrowe and Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly. A number of topics are discussed in the file, most prominent among them are the following: Relations between Britain a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1862-4 Apr 1868
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/184

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/184
Title:
12 File 323 I - Interference of Persian Agents in Bahrain Affairs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the Persian Government's claim of sovereignty over Bahrain and the actions of some its agents in connection to operations taken by the British Government against the chiefs of Bahrain that it had accused of acts of piracy. The correspondence include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
11 Nov 1869-18 Mar 1887
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/192
Title:
‘37 File 483 Memorandum on Bahrain; Major E L Durand’s Notes on the Antiquities of Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s contents fall into two categories: Reports and memoranda on Bahrain, dated 1875, including a report on the rulers of Bahrain (folios 2-7); a history and genealogy of the Uttoobee [ʿUtūb] tribe (folios 9-10); names of the ʿUtūb rulers (folios 11-13); a memorandum on Bahrain (folios ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1875-20 Feb 1889
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/134
Title:
‘Vol 182 1852/53 Persia; Slave Trade; Muscat; Commerce; miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded by Captain Arnold Kemball. Correspondence in the volume falls under the following headings: Persia, Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1852-23 Nov 1852
Extent:
1 volume, 38 items (57 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/122
Title:
Vol 166: 1850 Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters relating to the Indian Naval Squadron of the Persian Gulf. The three main correspondents are the following: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1850-6 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (50 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/167
Title:
'Book No 253'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence sent and original correspondence received by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, relating to Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis]. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf throughout the period was Captain (James) Felix Jo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1857-22 Feb 1862
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132
Title:
Vol 180: Secret letters Inward and Outward
Scope & Content:
The file contains Secret and Political correspondence sent inwards and outwards from the British Residency in the Persian Gulf; the file primarily represents communications between the Resident, and the Secret and Political Department of the Bombay Government. It covers diplomatic relations wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1851-19 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 volume, 78 items (237 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/138
Title:
Vol 186 1853/54 Bahrain; Arabian Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The letterbook is comprised of correspondence sent between the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Arnold Kemball, and the Chief Secretary of the Government in Bombay, Arthur Malet, relating to events at Bahrain (folios 1-61), on the Arabian Coast and Muscat (folios 63-256), and the slave trad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1853-13 Mar 1854
Extent:
2 volumes, 107 items (424 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143
Title:
Vol 195 1854/55 Bahrain; Arab Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume’s correspondence covers three subjects, as follows: Affairs at Bahrain (folios 2-165): the hostilities between Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and Shaikh Muḥammad’s estranged relatives based at Dammām, in cohort with Fayṣal ibn Turki’s forces at Al-Qaṭīf; naval ope...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1854-12 May 1855
Extent:
1 volume (389 folios, 109 items)