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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Muscat, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

2. IOR/R/15/1/391-467

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/391-467
Title:
File 35: Muscat
Scope & Content:
The Muscat files cover a large number of topics in the period 1895 - 1946. The files contain correspondence concerning the nature of British involvement with Muscat. Key topics include the foreign relations of Muscat, rebellions against the Sultan, negotiation of a new British commercial treaty ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1895-1946
Extent:
77 files (12,788 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/552-553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/552-553
Title:
File 59: Buildings
Scope & Content:
The subject file title ('Buildings') is incorrect. Instead, the two volumes contain correspondence relating to British relations with Muscat, and the increasing French influence in the affairs of the Sultan of Muscat. The dispute concerning Muscat ships using the French flag to transport slaves f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1902-1909
Extent:
2 volumes (413 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/723

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/723
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Historical and Political Materials, Maskat [Muscat] territory, 1872-1903
Scope & Content:
The file consists of Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Historical and Political Materials, Maskat Territory, 1872-1903 (Simla: G C Press, 1903). The Gazetteer summarises events in Oman, Gwadur [Gwadar], Dhofar, and Zanzibar on a year-by-year basis, and has separate sections on Maskat [Muscat], again on a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/82
Title:
Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file consists of letters sent to Samuel Hennell, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf, by the Government of Bombay in response to the Resident's activities in the Gulf. The main subject matter concerns Egyptian encroachment in Oman; and a commercial treaty negotiated between Britain and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1839-21 Oct 1839
Extent:
1 file, 22 folios (8 items)

6. IOR/R/15/1/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/52
Title:
Vol 66: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, Major David Wilson, from various officials at the Government of Bombay. Correspondents include: Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay; Robert Cotton Money, Acting Persian Secretary to Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hindi
Date Range:
21 Dec 1829-11 Jun 1830
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

7. 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)

8. IOR/R/15/1/166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/166
Title:
‘Vol 251 Unsettled affairs for Resident’s attention during Tour of Arab Ports, 1859/60; Turkish Arabia, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr], General’
Scope & Content:
The file contains miscellaneous correspondence and reports produced at or for the attention of the Persian Gulf Residency. The chief correspondents in the file are Captain Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay: Outstanding affairs fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1857-22 Sep 1860
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1748
Title:
File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1929-16 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)