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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary of State for the Colonies, United Kingdom, 1854-1966

1. IOR/L/PS/10/588/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/588/2
Title:
The Aga Khan:- the Khoja community.
Scope & Content:
This item contains correspondence relating to the Aga Khan and the Khoja community, including their status of their cemeteries in East Africa. Correspondents include the Aga Khan; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the High Commissioner for Zanzibar; and the British Resident of Zanzibar.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1912-5 Jan 1929
Extent:
1 item (151 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1460
Title:
Coll 1/24 'Aden Protectorate: status of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the status of Socotra [Suquṭrā], and a visit made by the Resident to the island and to the eastern borders of the Aden Protectorate. Papers dated 1926 consist of a text of the following questions asked by Viscount Sandon in the House of Commons: whether any Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1926-4 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/611/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/611/2
Title:
File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)'
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from the Political Resident, Aden, addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (from the News Letter dated 5 May 1921, forwarded 1 June 1921), which were forwarded to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1921-26 Feb 1924
Extent:
1 item (322 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/292
Title:
PZ 3323/39 'Aden Salt Industry'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Bernard Rawdon Reilly (Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden) to Malcolm MacDonald (Secretary of State for the Colonies), and a reply from MacDonald to Reilly. The correspondence relates to the concerns of Sir Hormusjee Cowasjee Dinshaw about the future of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1939-31 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1310
Title:
File 42/1931 'Nejd-Transjordanian Raid Claims'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the subject 'Nejd-Transjordanian Raid Claims'. The papers cover: investigations into raids into Trans-Jordan in 1930-31, including the looting of seventy camels; the situation on the Nejd-Transjordanian border; and a note on policy for the control of the Trans-Jordan desert...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1930-Aug 1933
Extent:
1 volume (461 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/782

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/782
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 3 ‘KURDISTAN POLICY & SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, newspaper clippings, parliamentary notes, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the political situation in Kurdistan, but also contains correspondence from Kurdish representatives and var...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1919-4 Dec 1922
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/8
Title:
PZ 478/1931 'Iraq. Minting of national currency'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning the introduction of an Iraqi national currency, mainly relating to the minting of the coins. It includes: copies of correspondence between the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, and the Financial Secretary to the High Commissioner for Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1930-1 Apr 1931
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3
Title:
PZ 63/31 'Arabia: Settlement of Iraq-Hejaz Raid Claims'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to raid claims issuing between Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd. The discussion in the volume relates to the negotiations of compensation, final agreement and arrangements for payment and distributio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1931-21 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/396

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/396
Title:
PZ 3503/40 'HH Shaikh Muhammed bin Isa Al Khalifa'
Scope & Content:
File contains correspondence regarding assistance provided by the British Government to transport Mohamed bin Isa al Khalifa, the brother of Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa [King of Bahrain], his son and three companions from Malta to Alexandria, following the recall of Italian ship the Calitea to Italy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1940-8 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2094
Title:
Coll 6/28 'Hodeidah: Suggested Appointment of a British Consul at. Political control of Hodeidah Mission.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence regarding the proposed appointment of a British Consul at Hodeidah [Al Ḩudaydah], Yemen. The correspondence discusses a proposal, put forward by the Political Resident at Aden, Major-General John Henry Keith Stewa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1925-31 Mar 1927
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)