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1. IOR/R/15/2/543-550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/543-550
Title:
File 15 Miscellaneous Reports
Scope & Content:
The files in this sub-sub series are categorised as miscellaneous reports; they cover diverse topics such as the ownership of islands in the Gulf as well as the leading personalities and tribes of Abu Dhabi, Buraimi and British Somaliland. The files include discussion of: the geographical charac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1949
Extent:
8 files (566 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/6/241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/241
Title:
File 8/62 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a list, sent by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, showing the names of the current shaikhs of the principal tribes of Oman. The list, which contains the names of around seventy individuals, is followed by an extensive in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1927
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/126
Title:
File 3/8 Books etc: Transliteration of vernacular names and places.
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Muscat, concerning the transliteration of personal and place names in India and the Persian Gulf. The papers were compiled in response to requests from the Government of India for standardisation in the translation of vernacular names. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Pashto, and Persian
Date Range:
25 Mar 1903-10 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (81 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/382
Title:
Handbook of Asir
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked 'For Official Use Only', is a first edition Handbook of Asir, prepared by Captain K Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, Cairo, and printed by the Government Press, Cairo, 1 June 1916. The volume opens with a prefatory note on compilation and sources and is then divided into sevent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (93 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/244
Title:
File 8/62 III PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES of OMAN.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the principal shaikhs and tribes of Oman. The bulk of the file consists of an account by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman' (ff 9-33), which provides written summaries of each of the main tribes and table...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1950-20 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/245
Title:
File 8/62 IV PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the principal shaikhs and tribes of Oman, and also to the Imam of Oman's administration. It largely consists of copies of (and various amendments to) two reports. The first of these is an account by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1950-25 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (137 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/132
Title:
File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials suggested a mixed commission representing both the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government, and authorized the investigation all the frontier incidents by land and by sea that had occurred between the two st...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1935-11 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/264
Title:
File 8/67 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSCAT – OMAN TREATY.
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the tribes of interior Oman. The volume contains multiple copies of notes produced in October 1920 by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, providing a British perspective on the history of political affairs in Muscat a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1920-27 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/133
Title:
File 2/2 VI Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling and Iraqi incursions into Kuwaiti waters. The Shaikh of Kuwait raised his complaints to the Political Agent, Kuwait, about Iraqi customs attacking Kuwaiti nationals, firewood collectors and fishermen and their jolly boats. With ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1937-1 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/130
Title:
File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. The correspondence discusses the following: Operation of Iraq Customs launch in Kuwait territorial waters. The shooting of two Kuwait tribesmen in Kuwait territory by Iraq Preventive Police. Proposing a conference to be held...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1934-8 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (265 folios)