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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Import control Name Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1822-1971

1. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 274-277
Title:
Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/54
Title:
PZ 3067/32 'Regulations governing importation of live-stock and animal products into foreign countries'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding regulations governing imports of livestock and animal products into Afghanistan, India, Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait and the Trucial States. The primary correspondents are: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1931-27 Aug 1932
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/951
Title:
Ext 4741/44 'Shipment of supplies to Muscat: Mozambique sugar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding imports of sugar, tea and other commodities from Mozambique to Muscat, and their onward export to Persia. The file covers considerations of increased restrictions on such imports and potential withholding of tea from India in order to uphold rationing. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1944-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1154
Title:
Ext 4728/46 'Requests of Messrs Wimpey and Co Ltd for information on taxation or import duty restrictions in Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding enquiries made by George Wimpey and Company Limited with the India Office (Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison), Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Kuwait on taxation or import duty restrictions. The correspondence also cont...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1946-12 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3001

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3001
Title:
Coll 20/41 'Muscat: Prohibition of Import of Intoxicating liquors into Muscat'
Scope & Content:
A letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (forwarded from the Foreign Office), Bahrain to Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, June 1948. The letter gives details of a prohibition on the import of liquor into Oman recently announced by the Sultan of Muscat. A translation of the Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1952
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:
File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)