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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Kuwait, 1904-1961

81. IOR/L/PS/12/3824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3824
Title:
Coll 30/104(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Operations of the Koweit Oil Company. (Provision of Motor Vehicles & Spares for Sheik of Koweit)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company, from its initial explorations and discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Kuwait, to the suspension of the Company's operations during the Second World War (1939-45), and the resumption of its operations after the war. The main co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-20 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (373 folios)

82. IOR/L/PS/12/3845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3845
Title:
Coll 30/116 'Kuwait: establishment of a bank'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, intelligence summaries, and drafts between officials on behalf of the Government of India and the officials of the Ottoman Bank, the Eastern Bank Limited and the Imperial Bank of Iran regarding the opening of a bank in Koweit [Kuwait]. In ad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1935-23 Apr 1944
Extent:
1 file (244 folios)

83. IOR/L/PS/12/3864

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3864
Title:
Coll 30/130 'Persian Gulf. Koweit. Proposal for a motor route from Koweit-Haifa'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in London, Palestine, Kuwait and India regarding proposals for the construction of a motor route from Kuwait-Amman (folios 4-53) and Kuwait-Haifa (folios 54-204). In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following: 'War Ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1936-15 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 file (203 folios)

84. 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)

85. IOR/L/PS/12/3933

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3933
Title:
Coll 30/193 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. KOWEIT.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mainly correspondence, relating to the defence of Kuwait (also spelled Koweit and Kuweit in the file). It includes correspondence regarding the following: the preparation of a scheme for the defence of Kuwait by the Air Officer Commanding, Iraq; an exercise carried ou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1938-20 Mar 1942
Extent:

1 file (78 folios)

86. IOR/L/PS/12/4101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4101
Title:
Coll 35/2 'Persia and Persian Gulf: steamer arrangements in the Persian Gulf; including arrangements for the carriage and delivery of consular and diplomatic mails to posts in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispatch of consular and diplomatic mails by steamer and air mail service to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers: Transmission of sealed bags, containing official correspondence, to consular officers in Persia [Iran] Negotiations with Persian Government for the transmis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1930-13 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (579 folios)

87. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

88. IOR/L/PS/12/4137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4137
Title:
Coll 35/27 'Kuwait Oil Company's wireless installation'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Kuwait Oil Company's wireless equipment at Kuwait and Bahrah [Kuwait] in 1936, and their communications with oil tankers visiting Kuwait, in 1946. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1936-20 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

89. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)

90. IOR/L/PS/18/B225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B225
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey, Indian Army, Political Agent, Kuwait to Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel encloses a copy of a letter No. C/8 of 1915 by Grey, as Political Agent in Kuwait, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 June 1915, regarding Arab co-operation with the Turks in the Shatt al-Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1915
Extent:

2 folios