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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Muscat Political Agency and Consulate, 1861-1971

1. IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 718-752

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 718-752
Title:
Affairs of Muscat and its Dependencies and the Naval Force Required to Preserve Order on Persian Seas
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 147 of 1869, dated 10 May 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-16, dated 19 February-5 May 1869. The enclosures largely comprise letters from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1869
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 56-57a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 56-57a
Title:
Political No. 162 of 1874, Forwarding Four Copies of the Report on the Administration of the Bushire Residency, including that of the Muscat Political Agency, with Reports on Trade for the Year 1873-74
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 8 September 1874, forwarding for information four copies of the report on the administration of the Bushire [Bushehr] Residency [not included in this ite...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1874
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/7
Title:
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 7) - Naval Operations off Muscat - Arrangements Proposed for the Protection of the Telegraph Stations at Gwadur and Mussendom - Question of the Protection of British Property at Muscat
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1866-23 Aug 1866
Extent:

1 item (39 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/8
Title:
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 8) - Arrival of a Muscat Embassy at Bombay - Arrival of a Persian Prince at Bandar Abbas - Persian Claim to Gwadar
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1866-23 Aug 1866
Extent:

1 item (48 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/659/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1A 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; improvements on original scheme; proposals for lights at Shaikh Shuaib, Henjam, Muscat and Jask'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the negotiations for the installation and maintenance of lighthouses and buoying in the Persian Gulf after the First World War, specifically at Muscat, Henjam and Sheikh Shuaib. Related matters of discussion include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1916-16 Nov 1917
Extent:
1 item (59 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3558
Title:
Coll 29/2(6) 'Indian treasuries in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the financing of the Muscat Political Agency after the closing of the Indian Treasury, in 1948. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Government of India, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Political Agent at Muscat, and the Political Residency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1947-13 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3613
Title:
Coll 29/45(3D) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major A C Stewart'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the recruitment of A C Stewart as Political Agent in Muscat, 1947, and correspondence regarding Stewart's salary requirements. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Commonwealth Relations Office, the Political Agent in Musc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1947-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3625
Title:
Coll 29/50 'Kuwait Agency: clerical staff'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns posts and conditions of employment of clerical staff at the Political Agency at Kuwait. The file contains correspondence related to: misconduct of Head Clerk, following up to allegations of corruption and complaints for unsatisfactory work when he was Dragoman at the Muscat Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1924-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3647
Title:
Coll 29/71 'Safeguarding of cyphers and other confidential matter at consular posts in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the security of cyphers and documents at consular posts in Persia. The file covers: safety of archives at the British Legation at Tehran and at the HM Consulates at Shiraz, Kerman and Bandar Abbas, 1934 supply of new combination safes for the Political Residency at Bushire and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1933-16 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (217 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3859

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3859
Title:
Coll 30/126 'Persian Gulf. Construction of Naval Bases at Khor Quwai & Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the construction of a British naval base at Khor Kuwai (occasionally spelt Quwai in the file) in Oman in 1936 and its subsequent closure in 1947. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the India Office, the Admiralty, the Political Reside...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1936-21 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (67 folios)