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1. IOR/R/15/1/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/173
Title:
‘Vol 262 Historical Sketches and Administrative Reports’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains three administrative reports submitted by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, to the Government of Bombay. The first report (folios 6-36) covers events occurring within the key towns and tribes of the Arab coast of the Gulf between the peri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1857-2 Dec 1858
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/178
Title:
'Book No 281'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains administrative reports and historical sketches concerning Persian Gulf affairs. The volume also contains a number of letters between Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; A Hinlock Forbes, Acting Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Captain Felix Jon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1859-31 May 1861
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/196
Title:
'Sirri Island Occupation by the Persian Govt. 1887-1902'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning the Persian claim to the island of Sirrī, as well as their claim to and occupation of that place. In addition there is information concerning rival claims by Trucial Coast rulers, details concerning Dubai pearl divers on the island and details concern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
18 Sep 1887-27 Jun 1902
Extent:
1 volume (235 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/197
Title:
'B.11 668-II Sirri Island'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence mostly concerning the island of Sirri [Sirrī], as well as other Persian Gulf islands, including Tanb [Ṭanb] and Lesser Tanb, Farur [Farūr] and Lesser Farur, Dalmah [Dalmā], Halul island [Ḥālūl], Sir Abu Nu'ayr [Ṣīr Abū Nu‘ayr], and Sir Bani Yas [Ṣīr Banī Yās]. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
31 May 1904-25 Oct 1910
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/226
Title:
File 5/193 II (B 38) Slavery in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The majority of the correspondence in the volume relates to Sir George Maxwell's report on slavery in Arabia, submitted to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery in around 1936. The file should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/227, which contains a continuation of c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1930-18 Sep 1936
Extent:

1 volume (233 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/227
Title:
File 5/193 III (B 46) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery, exchanged between a number of British Government representatives. It should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/226, of which this file is a continuation, there being numerous references to it in some of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1936-4 Apr 1938
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/230
Title:
File 5/196 II Slave traffic in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to slave trading activity in the Persian Gulf, including intelligence reports on suspected slave traders, and the movement of suspected slaves across the Gulf by traders. The volume also includes a number of reports on the extent and nature of the slave...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1929-7 Dec 1938
Extent:

1 volume (216 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/709
Title:
Persian Gulf Administration Reports 1883/84 - 1904/05
Scope & Content:
The volume contains printed copies of Persian Gulf Administration Reports. The Reports are incomplete (according to the introductory letters and lists of contents). Some of the Reports bear manuscript corrections. The following Reports are represented : Report on the Administration of the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1906
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/710

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/710
Title:
Administration Reports 1905-1910
Scope & Content:
The volume contains Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/711

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/711
Title:
Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914
Scope & Content:
The volume contains Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Year 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Year 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1915
Extent:
1 volume (241 folios)