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4151. IOR/R/15/5/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/311
Title:
File 9/1 Slave Traffic
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence regarding the trade in enslaved people in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait (where there was no anti-slavery agreement between the British Government and the Ruler of Kuwait). Much of the correspondence is concerned with the preparation of informat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1929-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

4152. IOR/R/15/5/311 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/311 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 9: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The Slave Trade sub-sub-series consists of one file containing correspondence relating to the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait. Much of the correspondence deals with requests for information about the Persian Gulf slave trade from the League of Nations' Advisory Commit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1929-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

4153. IOR/R/15/5/312 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/312 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 10: Destruction of Documents
Scope & Content:
The Destruction of Documents sub-sub-series consists of one file, which lists a number of intelligence summaries, diaries and reports that were destroyed at the Kuwait Political Agency in February 1941, apparently as a matter of procedure. The file also includes a copy of a procedure, dated 19 D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

4154. IOR/R/15/5/313-319

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/313-319
Title:
File 13: Foreigners
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series contains papers, mainly correspondence, of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreigners in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. It includes files relating the following subjects: the American Mission and American missionaries in Kuwait (IOR/R/15/5/313 and IOR/R/15/5/314) forei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
7 files (489 folios)

4155. IOR/R/15/5/318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/318
Title:
File 13/9 'Employment of Foreigners in Kuwait Government (Refugee Labour)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains Kuwait Political Agency papers relating to the employment of foreigners in Kuwait. It largely consists of correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the Political Resident, Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain. It also includes: correspondence between the Political Ag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1945-11 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (136 folios)

4156. IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 1: Agency Staff [policy]
Scope & Content:
The Agency Staff [policy] sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains employee details about locally recruited clerical staff working mainly in the British Political Agency in Kuwait.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1949
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

4157. IOR/R/15/5/321 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/321 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 2: Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths
Scope & Content:
The Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains details from the Registers of Births, Deaths and Christian marriages kept by the Political Agent, Kuwait in respect of British, other European, and former British Indian subjects of India ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

4158. IOR/R/15/5/324-327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/324-327
Title:
File 14: Agency Staff [personal]
Scope & Content:
The Agency Staff [personal] sub-sub-series consists of four, surviving correspondence files. Three files contain employee details for clerks (two Arab and one Indian) working at the British Political Agency, Kuwait and another clerk (Indian) working at the British Political Agency, Bahrain. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
4 files (39 folios)

4159. IOR/R/15/5/365-398

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/365-398
Title:
Miscellaneous official and non-official printed material
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series consists of official and some non-official printed material collected at the Kuwait Agency, presumably for reference purposes. The material includes dictionaries, gazetteers, travel diaries, reports, indexes, and manuals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1829-1940
Extent:
58 files and volumes

4160. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

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