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1. IOR/R/15/2/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/231
Title:
File 6/7 Mahandal Mekta [Mohanlal Mehta], ex-BI Agent at Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the appointment of Mehta, who had previously acted as Agent for British India Steam Navigation (BISN) at Dibai [Dubai], to a position in the Hamalbashi Branch of the Customs at Shargah [Sharjah], responsible for the collection of customs revenue, and ensuring the correct quant...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1932-8 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/168
Title:
Vol 255 Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume's correspondence and other papers document British officials' attempts to suppress the slave trade in the Gulf, and their procedures for dealing with liberated slaves. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain Felix Jones), H. L. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1857-18 Dec 1861
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157
Title:
‘Vol 224 1856/57 Bahrain; Abu Dhabi; Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah; Hamriya; Muscat and Bandar `Abbas; Slave Trade’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to a number of subjects, listed below. The principal correspondents throughout are Commander (James) Felix Jones, initially Acting Resident, then Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1855-21 Mar 1857
Extent:
2 volumes, 96 items (309 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/62

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/62
Title:
Letters inward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters received by David Anderson Blane, Resident in the Persian Gulf, between 6 April 1833 and 9 April 1834. Two of the letters are from Commodore John Pepper, Senior Officer of the Indian Navy. Pepper reports both on his trip to Sharga [Sharjah], where he sought to obtain redre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1833-9 Apr 1834
Extent:
1 volume, 5 items (6 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

6. IOR/R/15/1/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/59
Title:
Vol 77: Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of contemporaneous copies or summaries of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf (usually based at Bushire but temporarily residing on the Island of Corgo, following an outbreak of the plague) from a number of East India Company native agents, including those at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1832-24 Nov 1832
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/163
Title:
British Agents
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1857-27 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/66
Title:
Vol 87: Translation Book, 1834 (Native Letters Inward)
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of substances of, and translations of native letters (i.e. correspondence in Arabic or Persian) sent to the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The majority of these are from various native agents serving the British in the Gulf at Bahrein [Bahrain], Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
8 Jan 1834-28 Dec 1834
Extent:
1 volume, (145 folios)