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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Arms control Place Muscat, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/110
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic :- Muscat Warehouse. Negotiations with France 1907-1911.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the arms trade at Muscat and attempts by the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat to prohibit it; also included are reports and discussions from the Conference on Arms Traffic which was being held in Brussels in 1909 at the same time as the discussions in the volume. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Aug 1906-25 Aug 1911
Extent:

1 volume (488 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/111

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/111
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic:- Muscat dhows. "Kadra" case.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses an alleged arms trafficking incident which occurred in December 1908. The El Khadra, a dhow owned by Mubarak bin Khamis, a subject of Muscat, was seized by Italian authorities off the coast of Ras Hafun [Raas Xaafuun] on charges of arms trafficking. The volume includes the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
9 Feb 1909-22 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/423

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/423
Title:
File 4487/1913 'Orders in Council: Muscat 1915'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the drafting and implementation of the Maskat [Muscat] Order in Council of 1915, and subsequent additional regulations. Papers dated 1913-1915 comprise correspondence between the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913-1930
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B182
Title:
Arms Traffic at Muskat
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by the Political Department of the India Office 15 February 1911, describing the position of Muskat [Muscat] where the export of arms to India and Persia has been prohibited since 1898, but were the import of arms into Muskat and their export to any other country remains unpr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1911
Extent:

3 folios

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C237
Title:
‘Persian Gulf gazetteer. Part 1. Historical and political materials. Précis on arms trade in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is part 1 (historical and political materials) of a précis the arms trade in the Persian Gulf, covering the years 1883 to 1904. It was prepared by Lieutenant Cecil Hamilton Gabriel of the Indian Army, and published in 1904 by the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (31 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/42
Title:
'Book No. 49'
Scope & Content:
The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1827-11 Feb 1836
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)