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1. IOR/L/PS/10/1041

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1041
Title:
File 522/1922 Pt 3 'Bahrein: Persian claim to sovereignty'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and draft papers relating to Persia's claim to sovereignty over Bahrain. The original correspondence is principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Government of India (Foreign and Political Department). Further corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Dec 1922-22 Feb 1929
Extent:
1 volume (634 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/153
Title:
File 3089/1908 'Persian Gulf:- Sirri Oxide.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and papers concerning the granting of a concession to British companies to mine red oxide on the Island of Sirri (also referred to as Siri and Sirra) in the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are HM Minister, Tehran (Sir George Head Barclay); the British C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1908-23 Jun 1909
Extent:
1 volume (220 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/10/1267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1267
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Tamb. (and Abu Musa)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the ownership and sovereignty of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa (and Little Tamb and Sirri) in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. The papers mainly consist of correspondence and India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1928-29 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (535 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/50/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 7 'Koweit Flag.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the proposal that vessels from Koweit [Kuwait] should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would bring from the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-22 Mar 1907
Extent:

76 folios

6. IOR/L/PS/10/50/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6 'Koweit:- Status of Koweitis in Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the status of citizens of Koweit [Kuwait] in Persia, particularly in view of the fact that the British Government had not declared a formal protectorate over Kuwait, and that sovereignty over Kuwait was claimed by the Ottoman Empire. The principal correspondents are the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Aug 1905
Extent:

77 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/10/51/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the claims of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr] against the competing claims of the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the British Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1903-11 Apr 1910
Extent:

113 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1272/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1272/1
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 13 ‘Persian Gulf: Bushire: Residency Flagstaff.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the question of the removal of the flagstaff of the British Political Residency at Bushire from outside the Residency grounds, due to the objection of the Persian [Iranian] Government that the flagstaff was in Persian territory (this was being discussed in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1929-23 Dec 1929
Extent:

1 item (44 folios)