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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Bushire, Bushire Province, Asia

1. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

2. IOR/R/15/2/952

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/952
Title:
'189 Trade Report of Bahrain Islands.'
Scope & Content:
The volumes comprise trade and commerce reports, primarily for Bahrain but also for Arabistan and Bushire covering the period 1918-1924. The reports included in the volumes are: Report on the Trade of the Bahrain Islands for the year ending 31 March 1918 (ff 7-39) Report on the Trade of the Bah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1918-28 Aug 1950
Extent:

2 volumes (374 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/690

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/690
Title:
‘File 28/8 War. Evacuation of Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to British officials’ fears of the possibility of a German coup in Iran, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf’s (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) proposals for the evacuation of Bushire, should circumstance necessitate it. The file co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1940-31 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/148
Title:
File 6-B/4 Foreign Interests: Closure of French Consulate at Bushire
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a single letter in French (with a cover note in English) sent from the Consul General of France in Bushire to the British Political Resident and Consul General in Bushire. The letter confirms the closure of the French Consulate in Bushire effective from 31 August 1934.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Aug 1934-3 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/710, f 261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/710, f 261
Title:
‘DISTRICTS SURROUNDING BUSHIRE’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Districts labelled for reference with boundaries outlined in colour, roads shown in red and rivers in blue. Shoals indicated by pecked line.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/R/15/2/567

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/567
Title:
File No. 17/18 BAHRAIN-BUSHIRE CABLES.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the Secretary of State for India and Burma (Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence) regarding the Bushire to Bahrain submarine cable which had been laid in 1935 without the cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1946-19 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/135
Title:
`Political Diary of the Residency in the Persian Gulf – Native Departments’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a political diary recording ‘native’ correspondence sent and received by the Residency, visits made by the Resident, visitors received at the Residency, and other occurrences of note. All of the correspondence detailed in the volume was sent to or received from Arab and Persian inh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1850-31 Oct 1852
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/784

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/784
Title:
‘File 29/24 COFFEE FOR BAHRAIN AND EAST SAUDI ARABIA’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in 1944 from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, New Delhi to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, refusing the latter’s request for an increase in the amount of coffee made available for export from India to Bahrain, d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1944-8 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/133
Title:
'Book 181 - 1852'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded in March by Captain Arnold Kemball. The volume includes: Correspondence with the British Envoy at the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1851-14 Dec 1852
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1630

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1630
Title:
File 17/29 DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT ORIGINALLY ORDERED FOR INSTALLATION IN CONSULATES AT BANDAR ABBAS AND BUSHIRE
Scope & Content:
This file documents the Bahrain Political Agent's efforts to find a new owner for some electric generating equipment that was ordered from England by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. In order to avoid having to cancel the order (and pay a large cancellation fee) the Residency requests...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1947-20 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)