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1. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 613-617

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 613-617
Title:
Taxation of British Subjects in Muscat, and their Employees, by the Muscat Government
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The issue of the taxation by the Muscat Government of British subjects and their employees at Muscat arose following complaints by certain British subjects. Although not specifically provided for by treaty, exempt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1871-23 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 618-630

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 618-630
Title:
Muscat and Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The Enclosures consist of intelligence reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent and Consul, Muscat; and the Agent at Shiraz, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1871-23 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1276
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 4 ‘MUSCAT: FUTURE POLICY IN. Tariffs.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to British policy in Muscat. It includes some papers regarding the situation at Sur; however most of the volume concerns the financial situation of the Muscat state, mainly the proposal to increase state revenues by removing the limitation on the power of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 Aug 1928-17 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (489 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1277
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 4 ‘Muscat: Future policy in. Tariffs. (April 1932- )’
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to proposed increases in the rates of import duty charged by the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It includes papers concerning: The decision of the British Government that, instead of seeking to amend the Commercial Treaty of 1891 between Muscat and the United ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
4 Apr 1932-27 Nov 1940
Extent:

1 file (402 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3838
Title:
Coll 30/110(4) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concession: Muscat Oil Concession. Hinterland Exploration & Survey.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns geological and geophysical surveys for oil and other minerals in the hinterland of Muscat and Oman (especially Dhofar Province, also referred to as Dhufar) and the Trucial Coast (especially Sharjah) undertaken by the substantially British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1945-22 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B461

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B461
Title:
MEMORANDUM (a) The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. (b) His Highness Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum in two parts. The first part provides information about the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in eight sections, entitled, 'Territory', 'Historical', 'Physical Features', 'Climate', 'Population', 'Products and Trade', 'Religion' and 'Government'. The second part descr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:

5 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B470A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B470A
Title:
['Pre-Emption'] Agreement... between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom... and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a 'pre-emption' agreement between the British Government and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, which relates to the commercial agreement obtained by the petroleum company for drilling for oil in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the district of Dhofar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1938
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/CA6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/CA6
Title:
'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1866'
Scope & Content:
Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the years 1865-66. The letters are dated 8 November 1865-28 November 1866. The abstracts are numbered 1-111 and each have one of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1866-28 Dec 1866
Extent:
1 volume (352 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/CA7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/CA7
Title:
'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1867'
Scope & Content:
Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1867. The letters are dated November 1866-December 1867. The abstracts each have one of the following titles: Abstracts ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866-Dec 1867
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)