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51. IOR/L/PS/12/2992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2992
Title:
Coll 20/32 'Muscat: Question of succession to Sultanate'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the question of a successor for the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The principal correspondents are officials at the Political Agency in Muscat, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India (External Affairs Dep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1939-17 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/12/3430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3430
Title:
Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes: Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in Fran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Jan 1926-30 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/12/3752

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3752
Title:
Coll 30/39 'Persian Gulf, Bahrain: Succession; Attitude to be Adopted by Political Agent in the Event of Need to Choose a Successor'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the issue of succession in Bahrain. Specifically, this correspondence discusses the death of Shaikh Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa and the formal succession of his son, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in 1932 and the subsequent death ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1932-16 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (148 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/12/3830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3830
Title:
Coll 30/107 'Koweit: Rules of succession in Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the rules of succession for the rulers of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit). The papers cover: correspondence dated 1935 between the India Office and Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon of The Times concerning the article on Kuwait for the new edition of the Statesman's Year ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1935-19 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/3882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3882
Title:
Coll 30/147 'Trucial Coast: Kalba Affairs & Succession'
Scope & Content:
The file contains India Office minutes, and correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Foreign Office concerning the affairs of the shaikhdom of Kalba. The papers include: correspondence concerning the 1936 agreement between the British Government and Shaikh Said bin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1936-19 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (84 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/3963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3963
Title:
Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar. The papers include: reports by the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1941-7 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/18/B150A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B150A
Title:
‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
Scope & Content:
The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 file (55 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/18/C1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C1
Title:
ABSTRACT of PAPERS relating to the Succession to the Throne of Persia, and the Nomination of a Regent.
Scope & Content:
Confidential printed memorandum. The memorandum is divided into the following sections: 'Memorandum on the Succession to the Throne of Persia (folios 9-13); 'Memorandum by Sir H. Rawlinson [Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson] on the Succession to the Throne of Persia' (folios 13-15); 'Note on the App...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1859
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/18/C64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64
Title:
Persia. Note on the memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia - HC 1274 of 1895 [L/PS/3/349].
Scope & Content:
This note on the memorandum produced by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran 1894-1900, was written by Sir William Lee-Warner and focuses on various issues relating to the current situation in Persia. These include: the issue of the Regie debt; concerns over the successi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1896
Extent:

2 folios

60. IOR/P/438/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/438/11
Title:
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS, OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1870. POLITICAL.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of October to December 1870. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Departmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1870-Dec 1870
Extent:
1 volume (985 folios)