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

361. IOR/R/15/2/347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/347
Title:
File 9/6 Muscat date trade
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of a letter sent by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the date trade in Muscat. The letter encloses copies of letters forwarded by the Political Agent at Muscat on the cultivation of dates in the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1928-25 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

362. 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)

363. IOR/R/15/2/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/372
Title:
File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat. The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1945-2 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

364. IOR/R/15/2/381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/381
Title:
File 9/37 Foreign exchange
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain. Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1947-12 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

365. IOR/R/15/2/436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/436
Title:
File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Foreign Office on sundry matters, amongst which: visa arrangements for British nationals, petroleum development in Muscat and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1936-26 Jul 1944
Extent:
1 file (91 folios)

366. IOR/R/15/2/540

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/540
Title:
File 14/5 Visits of German Agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the visits of suspected German agents to the Persian Gulf region. The main correspondents include: Tom Hickinbotham (later Hugh Weightman), Political Agent at Bahrain; Trenchard Craven William Fowle (later Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Resident a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1937-2 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

367. IOR/R/15/2/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/586
Title:
File 18/19 Conferment of UK Nationality on Certain Indian and Pakistani Residents in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a letter from William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to R E Ellison, Political Agent, Muscat, dated 19 February 1949 asking him to establish how many members of the Hindu community in Muscat had been resident there for over two generations, and whether ce...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1949-25 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

368. IOR/R/15/2/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/592
Title:
‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a proposed and actual visits to the Persian Gulf by the writer Lady Dorothy Mills to countries in the Middle East in 1932 for the purpose of collecting suitable material for her literary work, with permission granted to her to travel to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, but not the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

369. IOR/R/15/2/724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/724
Title:
‘File 28/32 I Recruitment in Persian Gulf states’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to investigations into the prospect of recruiting large numbers of labourers from the Persian Gulf, for non-combatant military work in Basra, and later on, civilian (oil refinery) labour at Abadan. The principal correspondents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1942-28 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

370. IOR/R/15/2/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:
File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

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