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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Kuwait Political Agency, 1899-1961

1. IOR/L/PS/10/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/130
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 1 ‘Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning expenditure by the Government of India and the Foreign Office on diplomatic and consular services, mostly relating to Persia [Iran]. It also includes some correspondence relating to expenditure at the Koweit [Kuwait] Political Agency from 1904-1905 (the year i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1908-28 Feb 1911
Extent:

1 volume (322 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/131/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/131/1
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 2 ‘Diplomatic + Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers (correspondence and financial statements) concerning diplomatic and consular expenditure, mostly relating to Persia. It includes: statements sent to the Secretary of State for India by the Government of India Foreign Department, comparing the expenditure incurred by th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1909-21 Apr 1914
Extent:

1 item (203 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/277
Title:
PZ 465/1939 'Basra Petroleum Company: possibility of a pipeline through Kuwait territory'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter to Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, from Gerald Simpson de Gaury, Political Agency, Kuwait, requesting advice regarding the possible piping of oil through Kuwait territory by the Basra Petroleum Company.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1938-20 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/295
Title:
PZ 4121/1939 'Visit of one Niall Rankin to Kuwait: question of unfulfilled promise to send film of visit to Shaikh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains drafted, handwritten letters with annotations, as well as formal correspondence, sent between British officials in the Persian Gulf relating to the visit of Niall Rankin to Kuwait and his unfulfilled promise to send a copy of his film, much of which was set in Kuwait, to the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1939-21 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1140
Title:
Ext 3228/46 'Medical Equipment and drugs for the Koweit Agency'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding an order of medical equipment and drugs being sent by Dakin Brothers Ltd to the dispensary of the Political Agency, Kuwait. As well as Dakin Brothers, the primary correspondents are: India Supply Commission; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; India Office.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1946-31 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2123
Title:
Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2125
Title:
Coll 6/58 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Most of the correspondence is focussed on British policy in response to the Saudi-Yemeni conflict. Related matters that feature in the correspondence include the following: Reports in March 1934 that peace negotiations between Saud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1914-31 May 1934
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2126
Title:
Coll 6/59 'Saudi-Arabia: Alleged execution of the State Prisoners handed over after Akhwan rebellion in 1929 (Naif ibn Hithlain, Sultan ibn Hamaid and Ibn Lami)'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns rumours that prisoners handed over by His Majesty's Government following the Akhwan rebellion of 1929/1930 have been executed by the Saudi authorities, in spite of promises reportedly made by King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to the British G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1933-30 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2854

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2854
Title:
Coll 17/8(2) 'Shaikh of Koweit's Estates: Date gardens of the Shaikh in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2853. It consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding date garden properties in Iraq owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, changes to their tax-exempt status, and lawsuits regarding their ownership. Properties owned by the Shaikh of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1934-22 May 1936
Extent:
1 volume (619 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2888
Title:
Coll 17/26 'Iraq. Army.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1933-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)