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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Muscat Political Agency and Consulate, 1861-1971

1. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

2. IOR/R/15/2/1811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1811
Title:
File 36/101 Programmes from U.S.A.
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the imports from the United States that the Governments of Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait required for the year 1946. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat and the Political Residency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1945-3 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/218
Title:
File 5/190 IV Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to thirty-eight manumission cases, heard at the Political Agency in Muscat. All cases involve slaves who had absconded from the Trucial Coast, or slavery related incidents on the Trucial Coast. All cases were therefore referred to the Residency Agent a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1933-30 Nov 1935
Extent:

1 volume (301 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1670
Title:
File 20/5 CEREMONIALS AND HONOURS. Honours, Titles & Decorations
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the grant of titles and badges to various persons in the Gulf. For instance, the title ‘Khan Bahadur’ was given to, among others, Khan Sahib Abdur Rahman Zaiyani, an Arab merchant, and to Mirza Ismail Barduli, an interpreter at the Agency in Muscat. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1914-Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/4/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/12
Title:
File 24/2 Oil concessions, Volume II
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the negotiations and signing of oil concessions in the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates). The correspondence is principally between the British Agency in Sharjah, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat, representatives of Pet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 May 1937-1 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (200 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/219
Title:
File 5/190 V Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to slave manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Muscat. The majority of the manumission cases featured in the volume are straightforward, with correspondence following a regular pattern. The Political Agent at Muscat (Major Watts for most ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1935-29 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 volume (453 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1365
Title:
File 11/1 Correspondence re - SLAVE TRAFFIC AND Kidnapping etc: of Slaves (including Proclamations)
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of covering letters and extracts of the 1873 Slave Trade Proclamation sent between 1926 and 1938. The letters were sent by Political Residency staff to British representatives in the political agencies in Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait. The file contains five copies of the ex...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, and Urdu
Date Range:
20 Apr 1926-13 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/302
Title:
File 18/66 (B Series 18/10) Annual Reports on the Working of the Mascat Order in Council 1915
Scope & Content:
Annual Reports of the Political Agency and Consulate, Muscat (later Political Agency, Muscat), on the working of the Muscat Order in Council, 1915, for the years 1916-1947 inclusive. The reports provide lists of officers appointed as Political Agent for the period in question, statistical informa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1917-11 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (93 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/217
Title:
‘File 5/190 III Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains thirty-nine manumission subjects, each one involving the manumission request of one or more slaves, who had sought refuge at the Political Agency in Muscat (then under the charge of Major G. Murphy). Each manumission case follows a very similar pattern. Murphy sent a copy of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1929-32 Dec 1932
Extent:

One volume (353 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/568

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/568
Title:
File 61/11 V (D 95) Hejaz - Nejd, Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to the Hejaz and Najd. Much of the correspondence is from the British Legation in Jeddah, with regular reports on the situation in that region sent to Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary in London. The rest of the correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 May 1932-28 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 volume (261 folios)