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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Lahej, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 1022-1092

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 1022-1092
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1840, dated 19 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-24 and are dated 6 July to 15 August 1840. The enclosures mostly consist of corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1840
Extent:
1 item (69 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 154-259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 154-259
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 92 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-42 and are dated 1 September to 27 October 1840. They mostly consist of correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (106 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/604
Title:
File 2415/1916 ‘Aden Protectorate:- Gift of £10,000; Gift of Guns to Sultan of Lahej.’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the financial and military support Britain gave to tribes in South Arabia (present-day Yemen) during the First World War. Subjects covered include: in 1914, a declaration by the ‘Abdali Sultan of Lahej [Laḩij] of his longstanding f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1914-16 Feb 1928
Extent:

1 volume (284 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1464
Title:
Coll 1/28 'Aden Protectorate, Lahej; conspiracy against the Sultan of Lahej and question of recognition of his eldest son as his successor'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the attempted assassination of Sultan Fadhl bin Abdul Karim, in response to his being named heir apparent to the Sultanate of Lahej by his father, Sultan 'Abd al Karim II ibn Al Fadhl Al 'Abdali. The file consists of copies of Political Intelligence Summari...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1933-10 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1495
Title:
Coll 1/57 'Aden. Jurisdiction over the territorial waters of Arab States of the Aden Protectorate'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the question of jurisdiction over the territorial waters of Arab States in the Aden Protectorate. The issue is raised following a claim by the Abdali Sultan of Lahej [Lahij] that he retains fishing rights in the sea bordering the Lahej coast up to a dis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1934-16 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/57
Title:
Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabia comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals connected with the fall of the Sultanate of Lahej [Laḩij] to Ottoman forces in July 1915. Most of the individuals are key members of the Subaihi tribe; a breakdown of the sections of the tribe is given...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)