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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Demaum, Arabian Peninsula, Asia Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 350-374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 350-374
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 45 of 1856, dated 25 June 1856. The enclosures are dated 5 May-19 June 1856. The enclosures chiefly comprise copies of the correspondence of Commander Felix Jon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item (25 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132
Title:
Vol 180: Secret letters Inward and Outward
Scope & Content:
The file contains Secret and Political correspondence sent inwards and outwards from the British Residency in the Persian Gulf; the file primarily represents communications between the Resident, and the Secret and Political Department of the Bombay Government. It covers diplomatic relations wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1851-19 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 volume, 78 items (237 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/141
Title:
Vol 192: Letters Outward (Squadron, Persian Gulf)
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of letters written by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]. The Resident at this time was Arnold Burrowes Kemball; the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1854-18 Dec 1854
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143
Title:
Vol 195 1854/55 Bahrain; Arab Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume’s correspondence covers three subjects, as follows: Affairs at Bahrain (folios 2-165): the hostilities between Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and Shaikh Muḥammad’s estranged relatives based at Dammām, in cohort with Fayṣal ibn Turki’s forces at Al-Qaṭīf; naval ope...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1854-12 May 1855
Extent:
1 volume (389 folios, 109 items)

5. IOR/R/15/1/167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/167
Title:
'Book No 253'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence sent and original correspondence received by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, relating to Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis]. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf throughout the period was Captain (James) Felix Jo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1857-22 Feb 1862
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/179
Title:
Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding relations between the people of Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis] and the involvement of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, in affairs. The correspondence consists of letters and reports sent by Captain Jones to the Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859-14 Jan 1862
Extent:
2 volumes (354 folios)