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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Sultan of Zanzibar, 1856-1964 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/F/4/2709/194497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2709/194497
Title:
‘Muscat Death of His Highness the Imam of-’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 16 February 1857. The item contains a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Nov 1856-16 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 69-77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 69-77
Title:
Zanzibar Affairs
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871, concerning Zanzibar. The papers cover: the accession of Syud Burgash [Saiyid Barghash] as Sultan of Zanzibar; the despatch of HMS Wolverine to Zanzibar, and the question of whether the Wolverine should salute the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 264-285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 264-285
Title:
Zanzibar Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures Nos. 3-4 to Despatch No. 24 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 7 June 1860. The Enclosures are dated 13 April-30 May 1860. Received 12 July 1860. The Enclosures include a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1860
Extent:
1 item (22 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 60-62a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 60-62a
Title:
Political No. 5 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Reporting on the Present Financial Condition of the Sultan of Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 3 January 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 1 February 1873, forwarding copies of papers reporting on the present financial cond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1873-1 Feb 1873
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/107, ff 138-146a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/107, ff 138-146a
Title:
General No. 8 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Reporting Certain Matters Connected with the Shipwreck of the Sea King
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 February 1873 and received via Brindisi 10 March 1873, forwarding copies of papers reporting certain matters connected with the shipwreck of the Sea Ki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1873-10 Mar 1873
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B2
Title:
Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
Six memoranda pertaining to British handling of relations between Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia. The authors are all connected to the India Office, in London, mostly members of the Council of India. Some seem to be written independently, others in response to earlier memoranda. All documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1868-24 Jul 1868
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (29 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B14a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14a
Title:
Memorandum No 1. Zanzibar Agency and Consulate Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 17 August 1876. The first part of the document is a claim of expenses for an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns from the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Mu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1876
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B83
Title:
Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B90
Title:
Slave-dealing and Slave-holding by Kutchees in Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
This file contains a selection of correspondence, extracts and reports regarding the involvement of British subjects from the Princely State of Kutch [Cutch] in the slave trade in Zanzibar and attempts by the British Government to end this involvement. Much of the correspondence is from Britai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:

1 file (28 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B118
Title:
Mem: Conclusion of the Declaration with France as to Muscat in 1862 and the acquisition of Gwadar by Muscat.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum explaining that Lord Canning, Viceroy and Governor General of India, had arbitrated between the two sons of Sultan Syud Saeed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]upon his death. The two sons agreed the division of their inheritance between them as Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat resp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1899
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)