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341. IOR/R/15/1/140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/140
Title:
Vol 188 1854/55 Arabian Coast and Muscat; Accounts and General
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to and from Arnold Burrowes Kemball, the Resident in the Persian Gulf based at Bushire. The correspondents include William Taylor Thompson (Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia), Meerza Hussein Ali Khan (the Governor of Bushire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
5 Jan 1854-19 Dec 1854
Extent:
1 volume (235 folios)

342. IOR/R/15/1/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195
Title:
'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the Sultan of Muscat, Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd on 19 March 1891. The new treaty was modelled on a recently concluded treaty with Zanzibar. It superseded the Treaty of Commerce of May 1839 and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1887-26 Jun 1905
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

343. IOR/R/15/1/396

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/396
Title:
File 35/34 I Muskat: Grievances of the Banians about notification issued by the Sultan fixing 19 maund as the weight of a rice bag
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning complaints from Banians about notification issued by Sultan fixing the weight of rice bags in the unit of measurement of weight known as a maund. Correspondence discusses the difference between a Muskat maund and a Bengal maund and issues relating to the sale of rice by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1897-4 Nov 1897
Extent:
1 volume (47 folios)

344. IOR/R/15/1/758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/758
Title:
Photocopy of Letters Outward and Inward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters sent outwards (between 1 February 1789 and 18 July 1796), and inwards (between 20 October 1792 and 13 April 1798) from or to the Bushire Residency; the position of Resident at Bushire being initially held by Charles Watkins, but he was relieved in December 1792 by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1789-13 Apr 1798
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

345. IOR/R/15/2/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/70
Title:
Imports into Bahrain: statistics and correspondence
Scope & Content:
The file consists of enquiries received by the Political Agency Bahrain about trade matters, with further correspondence and statistics, and papers concerning the import of gold into Persia. The papers are as follows: enquiry from the Chief Political Officer, Basrah [Basra] about the average an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1916-20 Oct 1917
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

346. IOR/R/15/2/342-387

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/342-387
Title:
File 9 Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
The forty-six volumes and files forming the 'Trade and Commerce' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files and volumes date from 1928-1950. The 'Trade and Commerce' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1928-1950
Extent:
46 files and volumes (4028 folios)

347. IOR/R/15/2/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/531
Title:
‘File 13/26 Refusal of Trading Facilities to inhabitants of Socotra & Mahris: Establishment of Landing Ground at Qishn’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to trading restrictions being placed upon the inhabitants of Al-Mahra [incorrectly written in some parts of the file as Manris; Al-Mahra is in present-day Yemen] and Socotra, in response to the authorities of Qishn refusing the British Government permiss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1933-8 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

348. 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)

349. IOR/R/15/2/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/678
Title:
‘File 28/4 Trading with the enemy’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of printed circulars and notices issued by the British Government, memoranda and letters issued by the Government of India, and copies of correspondence to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to trade with countries and territories regarded as the enemy, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1939-4 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 volume (498 folios)

350. IOR/R/15/2/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/684
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) I War. Proposed extension of export licensing system’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and statistical data relating to the monitoring of imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and the states of the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export license controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband contr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1941-6 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)