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1. IOR/R/15/1/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/391
Title:
File 35/10 Attack on Muscat by Shaikh Salih, 1895
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the attack on Muscat in1895 when Shaikh Abdullah bin Salih took control of the town with the Sultan of Muscat holding Fort Jalali. The correspondence discusses the Political Agent's desire to protect British subjects and property and his inability to order intervention ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1895-22 Jun 1895
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/393

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/393
Title:
File 35/17 I Attack on Dhufar
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning an attack on Dhofar by the Kathiri tribe. The attack was sparked off by the imprisonment of a tribesman for evading the Sultan's tax on frankincense. Letters discuss the dispatch of an armed force from Muscat to Salalah in dhows, led by Sayyid Saif bin Hamad bin Salim t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1895-26 May 1897
Extent:
1 volume (127 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/394
Title:
File 35/23 Continuation of rebellion by Shaikh Salih; measures adopted for compensating the sufferers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the attack by the tribes of Oman on Muscat in 1895 in which British subjects lost property leading to the insistence by British officials that a tax be levied on dates coming from the rebel areas. Letters discuss the British guarantee to Sayyid Faisal bin Turki, Sultan ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1895-23 Feb 1903
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/433

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/433
Title:
Muscat Rising of 1913
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the 1913 uprising of the Ibāḍī imamate and the tribes of the interior of Oman under the leadership of Sālim bin Rāshid al-Kharūṣī against the authority of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, al-Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd, and the subsequent intervention and deployment of B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1913-30 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (303 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/717

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/717
Title:
‘File 28/27 Disturbances in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, letters and other papers responding to the military operations carried out by British forces against Iraqi forces in Iraq between 2 and 31 May 1941, as part of the campaign widely referred to as the Anglo-Iraqi War, and the political aftermath of the War, concluding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1941-9 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/732

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/732
Title:
‘File 28/38 Troop movements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, instructions and other papers relating to: troop numbers in Bahrain; troop movements through the Gulf into and out of Bahrain; military movements and military transportation in the wider region; Ministry of War Transport operations at Bahrain. Principal correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1942-24 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/56
Title:
‘Letters outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters, many with copies of their enclosures, sent by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Samuel Hennell, to Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay. The letters deal with a range of subjects, as follows: The extent of the slave trade betw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1831-24 Dec 1831
Extent:
1 volume (67 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/21
Title:
‘Vol 21 Letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence addressed to the Resident at Bushire, Captain William Bruce, and to James Dow, Acting Resident at Bushire. Correspondence is sent to the Resident by a range of individuals, including various secretaries to the Government in Bombay, representatives of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1819-31 Dec 1820
Extent:
1 volume, 95 items (62 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/77
Title:
Book 105: Letters inwards 1838
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a selection of correspondence sent from the Political Department of the Bombay Government to the Resident in the Persian Gulf during 1838; Samuel Hennell took up the position of Resident during that year. The subject matter covered includes the kidnapping of slaves from the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1838-5 Dec 1838
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (16 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/92
Title:
File 1/18 IV Arab Revolts against Ibn Saud, 1929.
Scope & Content:
The file deals with revolts against the King of Hejaz and Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (commonly referred to in the papers as Bin Saud or Ibn Saud) by Akhwan [Ikhwān] tribes in Najd (also referred to as Nejd). The file consists of a small amount of direct correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 May 1929-31 Dec 1929
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)