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1. IOR/R/15/2/838-845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/838-845
Title:
File 34: Education
Scope & Content:
The Education subject files contain correspondence related to the development of education in Bahrain and Kuwait. The correspondence in the files discusses the role and activities of the British Council in the region, the recruitment of an educational advisor in Bahrain, the enrolment of Kuwaiti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1939-1949
Extent:
8 files and volumes (779 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/71
Title:
Miscellaneous reports and correspondence relating to Kuwait
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of the Political Agency, Bahrain relating to Kuwait, and reports concerning Kuwait circulated to the Agency. The papers include: report entitled 'Situation in Kuwait' by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton, Political Agent, Kuwait, [March 1918]; 'Report on Insti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
[1 Mar 1918]-13 Mar 1920
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/621, f 132A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/621, f 132A
Title:
‘KUWAIT’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours. Map of Kuwait with borders indicated by dash-dot line. Coloured for reference with coast line marked in blue and shoals area stippled, place names in Arabic added in hand.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/R/15/1/726

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/726
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, 1896-1904
Scope & Content:
The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Koweit Affairs, 1896-1904 (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume contains a history of Kuwait, 1896-1904.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/235
Title:
File 6/13 'K. B. Abd al-Latif ibn Abd al-Jalil'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence sent by the Political Agency at Bahrain to J G Ballie, Vice-Consul at Bushire [Bushehr], regarding Khan Bahadur Abdul Latif bin Abdul Jalil [Khān Bahādur ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl], former Director of Customs at Kuwait. The letters mention why the forme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1933-31 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402
Title:
File 12/1 KUWAIT/HAIFA COMMERCIAL MOTOR ROUTE
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a single demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the India Office, dated 5 February 1937, discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1937-5 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/739

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/739
Title:
Treaties and undertakings in force between the British Government and the Rulers of Kuwait, 1841-1913
Scope & Content:
The volumes are printed documents produced by the Government of India Foreign Department. The volumes contain transcripts of treaties and undertakings relating tyo Kuwait in English and (reading in from the rear of the volume) in Arabic. The treaties and undertakings reproduced are as follows: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
c 1914
Extent:

2 volumes (40 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/636
Title:
‘File 24/6 KUWAIT PASSPORTS IN BOOK FORM’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two documents only, a short letter of enquiry and a short interim letter of reply, dated 28 December 1936 and 26 January 1937 respectively. The Political Agent, Kuwait, mentions that the Kuwait authorities are planning to introduce a passport system. He asks the Political Agent,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1936-26 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/531, f 312

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/531, f 312
Title:
‘Rough Sketch showing Official Fronteir Lines of Kuwait State’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Tracing of a sketch map produced to illustrate the act of violation of Kuwait Territorial waters by Iraq armed custom, attached to a letter no. C-182 dated 18th May 1934 (folios 313-319). Kuwait State boundary and neutral zone limits indicated by red pecked line. Shows r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/R/15/1/531, f 320A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/531, f 320A
Title:
‘Rough Sketch showing Official Fronteir Lines of Kuwait State’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Tracing of a sketch map produced to illustrate the act of violation of Kuwait Territorial waters by Iraq armed custom, attached to a letter no. C-182 dated 18th May 1934 (folios 313-319). Kuwait State boundary and neutral zone limits shown by red pecked line with positio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 map