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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Kuwait Legislative Council, 1938-1939 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3894A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3894A
Title:
Coll 30/158 'Koweit: Disturbances, 1938, and consequent administrative changes. Koweit Council.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the circumstances surrounding the recognition by the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of an elected Legislative Council (Majlis) in June 1938; and the subsequent administration of the state. The papers include correspondence and reports from the Political Resid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1938-3 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (347 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/468
Title:
File 45/23 I (D 140) Kuwait Reforms
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the formation of a Legislative Council in Kuwait following unrest among its people and criticism of its government in the Iraqi press. Included are newspaper articles, a list of the names of those elected to the Legislative Council of Kuwait (folio ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1938-19 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:
'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)