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11. IOR/L/PS/20/C244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C244
Title:
Précis of Mekran Affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of affairs relating to Makrān (spelt Mekran throughout) coast in the south of Sindh and Baluchistan. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1905 by the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/20/C248A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C248A
Title:
Précis on commerce and communication in the Persian Gulf, 1801-1905
Scope & Content:
The volume is a précis on trade and communications in the Persian Gulf. It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and published by the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla in 1906. The volume begins with a preface by Saldanha, written on 26 March 1906, and is then organised into five ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (121 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/1/145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/145
Title:
'Book No 197. Turkish Arabia, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] & Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters sent and received by the Resident at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones and by Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Commanding Resident's Escort. Correspondents include the India Office in London, the Government of Bombay, H M Minister at the Court of Persia. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1857-15 Jun 1861
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/1/150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/150
Title:
Vol 210: 1856/57 Persia; General and Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters inwards and letters outwards from the Residency in the Persian Gulf, based at Bushire; the incumbent Resident is James Felix Jones. The subject matter of the correspondence concerns affairs in Persia; a proposed telegraph extension from India to Constantinople via the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1856-15 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 volume, 11 items (19 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/1/469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/469
Title:
File 51/88 I Cable and Wireless Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The agreement between Shaikh Ahmad of Kuwait [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir] and Cable and Wireless Ltd for the opening of a telegraph station in Kuwait. It covers the extent of the company's remit, taxes, payment of set-up costs, expansion, security, technical training for Kuwaiti nationals, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/1/573

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/573
Title:
File 61/11 X (D 170) Nejd-Hejaz Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of telegrams, letters, and reports relating to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of the correspondence is between the British Legation in Jeddah, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, the India Office and the Foreign Office in Londo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1942-26 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/1/581

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/581
Title:
File 61/14 V (D 49) Nejd and 'Iraq, Relations between
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports relating to affairs between Najd, Kuwait, and Iraq. Most of the correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, the Political Resident in Bushire, Henry Dobbs, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Ibn Sa'ud, the King of the Hejaz and Najd, Leo Amery, th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1928-31 Mar 1928
Extent:

1 volume (291 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/1/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/699
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/30 - II VOL. C.91. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Tom Hickinbotham, Cornelius James Pelly, Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), the India office (Roland Tennyson Peel, Francis Anthony ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1942-22 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/2/538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/538
Title:
File 14/3 Foreign Interests - American (General)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to American influence and activities in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire (later at Bahrain), and the India Office. The file opens with a copy (folio 3) of correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1944-17 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/2002

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/2002
Title:
File 10/12 IX Oils and Minerals - Trucial Coast Oil, P.C.L.
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence, reports and a map regarding exploration for oil and the granting of oil concessions (and related British Government policy) in the states of the Trucial Coast. Much of the correspondence is between British officials in the India Office, the Foreign Office, the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1937-21 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (344 folios)