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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Place Dubai, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/R/15/1/222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/222
Title:
‘File 5/191 II Individual slavery cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to individual cases of the enslavement and trade of Baluchis from the Makran coast and Karachi, to the Trucial and Oman Coast, and in particular to Dubai. The correspondence is predominantly between Government representatives in Karachi/Sind, the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1922-17 Dec 1926
Extent:

1 volume (397 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/223
Title:
File 5/191 III Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
Twenty cases relating to individuals and small groups, kidnapped or transported from Baluchistan or India, to the Trucial Coast, in particular Dubai. Some of the cases are straightforward and involve the appearance or retrieval of slaves in the Dubai area, often initiated by the Sharjah Residenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1927-21 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (435 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/227
Title:
File 5/193 III (B 46) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery, exchanged between a number of British Government representatives. It should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/226, of which this file is a continuation, there being numerous references to it in some of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1936-4 Apr 1938
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/239-294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/239-294
Title:
File 14: Arab Coast and Islands
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence from 1871 to 1948 on a range of matters relating to the Trucial Coast and nearby islands including Abu Musa, Tunb [Tumb] and Sir Abu Nu'air. Topics in the correspondence discussed include: British relations with the Trucial States of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
56 volumes

5. IOR/R/15/1/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/555
Title:
File 60/54 Imperial Bank of Iran, Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file contains the agreement to open a branch of the Imperial Bank of Iran in Dubai. It is signed by Sheikh Sa‘īd II bin Maktūm, Ruler of Dubai, and F. H. Johnson, Representative of the Imperial Bank of Iran, and witnessed by Clive Murphy, Political Officer, Sharjah, dated 5 January 1946.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/749

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/749
Title:
Oil Concessions
Scope & Content:
The file consists of five volumes containing copies of oil concessions in the Persian Gulf region and correspondence between British officials related to them. 1) Persian Gulf - Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait &c. (sic) Correspondence 1932 to July, 1933 (folios 1-140); 2) Qatr [Q...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-c 1964
Extent:

5 volumes (306 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/162
Title:
File 1/A/39 I GUN RUNNING and PIRACY
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns gun-running and piracy in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Hugh Weightman); the Residency Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1934-4 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 volume (331 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/286, f 57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/286, f 57
Title:
Map showing location of RAF facilities at Dubai
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: The northern portion of a blueprint map showing the location of RAF facilities at Dubai creek including the Air Sea Rescue Hut and new B.O.A.C. Rest House. Includes inset indicationg Dubai location in context of Trucial Coast. Inscriptions: On verso in red crayon: ‘Ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/R/15/2/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/331
Title:
'File 8/37 Note by H.M.'s Consul, Bandar Abbas, on Jask Mutineers'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the movements of Dr Habib, an Iranian Government employee and resident of Lar, and based on a note by the British Consul at Bandar Abbas, Reginald Michael Hadow. The correspondence is between the following: Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1945-12 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/371
Title:
File 9/26 India and Persian Gulf Bank Limited
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the proposed opening of a bank called Indian and Persian Gulf Bank Ltd with Iraqi capital, headquarters in Karachi and branches at Kuwait, Dubai and Muscat. There is a letter in Arabic with English t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1945-8 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)