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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Sultan of Zanzibar, 1856-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/18/B129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B129
Title:
Muscat
Scope & Content:
A memorandum on British relations with Muscat for the years 1895 to 1901. It was prepared by Colin George Campbell for the India Office on 7 June 1901. The document gives a history of British and French relations with the Sultans of Muscat, and to a lesser extent, Zanzibar. It opens with a brie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1901
Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/265, ff 243-244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/265, ff 243-244
Title:
Zanzibar Subsidy
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Governmentof India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 45 of 1870, dated 12 August1870, objecting to plans to end the annual subsidy paid by the Sultan ofZanzibar to the Sultan of Muscat and requesting that, if the subsidy is ended, allresponsibility fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1870
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

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/5/264, ff 213-222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 213-222
Title:
Affairs in Muscat
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 6 of 1870, dated 25 January 1870, containing enclosures dated 6 November-21 December 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Muscat and Oman, including: A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1870
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 729-746

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/263, ff 729-746
Title:
Zanzibar Subsidy
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, dated 14December 1869-13 January 1870, relating to the subsidy paid by the Sultan ofZanzibar to the Sultan of Muscat since the separation of the two realms in1856. The correspondence particularly discusses whether the current Sultan ofZanzibar, Syud Madjid [Sayyid Mājid bin Sa‘īd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1870
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 402-408a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 402-408a
Title:
Political No. 68 of 1874, Forwarding with Observations a Copy of a Letter from Dr Kirk Giving Cover to a Correspondence with the Foreign Office on Certain Matters Connected with the Slave Trade Treaty of June 1873 with 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 10 April 1874, forwarding with observations a copy of a letter from Dr John Kirk, Political Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, giving cover to a corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1874
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)