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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Regent of Kalba, 1871-1952 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3882
Title:
Coll 30/147 'Trucial Coast: Kalba Affairs & Succession'
Scope & Content:
The file contains India Office minutes, and correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Foreign Office concerning the affairs of the shaikhdom of Kalba. The papers include: correspondence concerning the 1936 agreement between the British Government and Shaikh Said bin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1936-19 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (84 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3901

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3901
Title:
Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of the Kalba oil concession. The concession consisted of the commercial agreement between Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan [Khālid bin Aḥmad bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī], Regent of Kalba, and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, signed on 20 December 1938 (co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1938-17 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B475
Title:
Agreement relating to the Kalba Oil Concession [between] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, which relates to the Kalba oil concession agreed between Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited and the Regent of Kalba, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1940
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/288

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/288
Title:
'B Series POLITICAL 8/2 SUCCESSION TO THE SHAIKHDOM OF KALBA (A Series: 14/238 II)'
Scope & Content:
This file consists mainly of letters (with translation in Arabic) from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad al Qasimi, Regent of Kalba. The file discusses how the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf informs Shaikh Khalid that he His Majesty's Government is ple...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1938-30 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/291

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/291
Title:
B Series. POLITICAL 8/5 Jawasim-Shihuh situation (Dibba Affairs) (A Series 14/247)
Scope & Content:
This brief file relates to a dispute involving the Sultan of Muscat, the Shihuh, and the Regent of Kalba over the building of a fortified tower and issues of protection against raiding. The main correspondents are the Political Resident Persian Gulf; Political Agent, Muscat; (Tom C. Higginbotham...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1941-18 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/679
Title:
'Confidential 86/7 - ix B.52. P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence in English and Arabic between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Hugh Weightman), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, John Baron Howes), the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Saiyid ‘Abd al-Razzaq), the India O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1938-13 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 volume (206 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/680

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/680
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL VOL. B.58. 86/7-X P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, Reginald George Alban), the India Office (John Percival Gibson, Roland Tennyson Peel), the Foreign Office (Lacy ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1938-8 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 volume (200 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/694

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/694
Title:
'86/21 - II P.C.L. Exploration of Trucial Hinterland. B 51'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts) and Petroleum Concessions Limited (Stephen Hemsley Longrigg) regarding arrangements...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1938-23 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (142 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/374
Title:
File 9/30 Position of Arab Shaikhdoms under the Bretton-Woods Agreements
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from the Persian Gulf Residency, informing the Political Agents in Kuwait, Bahrain and Muscat of the decisions made during the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference and transmitting the following leaflets: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conferen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1946-5 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/620

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/620
Title:
File 22/12 Situation at Diba
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between 1941 and 1944 and starts with reports of the building of a fortified tower at the town of Diba [Dibba] (also spelt Dhibah, Daba) by the minority Qawasim [Āl Qawāsim] (also spelt Jawasim) inhabitants, subjects of the Regent of Kalba [Kalbā'], for p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1940-19 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)