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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah, c 1823-1949

1. IOR/R/15/4/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/13
Title:
File 34/3 Imports and exports
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mostly between Khan Bahadur Saiyid Abdur Razzaq [Sayyid 'Abd al-Razzāq], Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Political Agency at Bahrain, the rulers of the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates), and several merchants. The papers relate to the trade of goods between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1941-2 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (227 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/4/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/14
Title:
File 34/3 Imports and Exports of goods
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the import of methylated spirit for use in gas lamps from Karachi to Dubai and Sharjah. It includes lists of names of trustworthy merchants in Dubai and lists of commodities exported from the Trucial Coast to India including: dried fish, scrap-iron, mel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 May 1937-2 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (211 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/3
Title:
File 0255 Boundaries
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the definition of tribal territories and boundaries in the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates). The correspondence is principally between the Residency Agent and Political Officer in Sharjah, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1934-29 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (162 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/199-234

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199-234
Title:
File 5: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The majority of the Slave Trade subject files contain papers relating to the manumission of slaves or kidnapping incidents, heard by the Political Residency, and received from the Political Agencies in Bahrain (1924-43) and Muscat (1921-42), and the Native Agent at Sharjah (1921-40). The rest of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
1892-1943
Extent:
36 files and volumes (9,000 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/4
Title:
File 0425 Copies of Agreements, Concessions etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of the following agreements: Agreement between the British government and Shaikh Said bin Hamad [Sa‘īd bin Ḥamad Āl Qāsimī], ruler of Kalba, for facilitation of an airfield, 28 August 1936; Agreement between the British government and Shaikh Sa’id bin Maktum [Sa‘īd bin M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1930-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/752-757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/752-757
Title:
Correspondence in Arabic and English between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
This file mainly contains letters and instructions sent from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah in the years 1883-1914, 1921, 1924-1927 and 1930, as well as a ledger book of drafts of letters sent from the Residency Agent to the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1883-1930
Extent:

6 files (1206 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1873

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1873
Title:
‘File B/10 V Claim against Lukoomal Devanmal at Dubai’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim for rent arrears, made in 1936 by Shaikh Ma’na bin Rashid [Shaikh Mani bin Rashid Āl Maktūm] and Muhammad Saleh Kadhem [Mohamed Saleh Kazim], the owner and landlord respectively of a shop in Dubai. Their claim is against Lukoomal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1936-6 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1877

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1877
Title:
‘File B/10 IX Claim of Maginmal Likumdas of Dubai’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters written in both Arabic and English, in July 1933. The first letter is a report from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain about a claim of fraud made by Maginmal Likumdas (also spelt Lakamdas) of Dubai, against a former slave called Sultan Al H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1885

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1885
Title:
‘File B/19 CORRESPONDENCE WITH RESIDENCY, BUSHIRE, ABOUT DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH RESIDENCY AGENT, SHARJAH’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the disposition of the estate of Shaikh Mazkoor (also spelt Mazkur) Nassori of Gabandi in Bahrain, following his death in Tehran in 1935, as well as the arrangements to be made for the care of his sons. The main correspondents are the Political Agent a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-11 Mar 1936
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1427
Title:
File 14/12 Correspondence with Residency Bushire and other places regarding way bills
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Residency Agent at Sharjah and the Political Agent at Bahrain. The correspondence is forwarding waybills for mail bags and letters (not included), and also includes orders for stamps.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1944-10 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)