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1671. IOR/R/15/6/363

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/363
Title:
File 11/12 VI Muscat Intelligence Summary
Scope & Content:
This file contains political diary entries by the Political Agent in Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The entries are roughly one month apart and cover a wide range of subjects including the movement of British officials; shipping; ruling family; tribal affairs, and local new...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1950-31 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

1672. IOR/R/15/1/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/224
Title:
File 5/191 IV Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to instances of slavery on the Trucial Coast. Of the eleven subjects contained in the volume, the first seven relate to the kidnapping and enslavement of individuals within the Trucial Coast and Oman area, frequently by tribes from the interior. Cases ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1929-3 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 volume (338 folios)

1673. IOR/R/15/1/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/242
Title:
14/21 Correspondence re Zaora
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the area of Zaora between the towns of Ajman and Himriya. The Chief of Abu Dhabi sought to despatch provisions by sea for forces sent by him to Zaora for the protection of his tribesmen that he wished to settle there. Correspondence discusses that the Shaikh of Dubai and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1895-28 Mar 1913
Extent:
1 volume (194 folios)

1674. IOR/R/15/1/350

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/350
Title:
File 19/176 I (C 39) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed information regarding Bahrain's finances between 1924 and 1931. The file contains annual financial reports that include budget, revenue and expenditure details for the Government of Bahrain in this period. Education, the pearling industry and other economic issues a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1924-11 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (325 folios)

1675. IOR/R/15/1/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/353
Title:
File 19/176 IV (C 71) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed records of Bahraini government budgets, revenues and expenditures for the years 1934 to 1937. The file also contains a number of reports compiled by Charles Belgrave (Shaikh Hamad's advisor). These reports cover the pearling trade and diving industry, the police force...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1934-14 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

1676. IOR/R/15/1/393

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/393
Title:
File 35/17 I Attack on Dhufar
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning an attack on Dhofar by the Kathiri tribe. The attack was sparked off by the imprisonment of a tribesman for evading the Sultan's tax on frankincense. Letters discuss the dispatch of an armed force from Muscat to Salalah in dhows, led by Sayyid Saif bin Hamad bin Salim t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1895-26 May 1897
Extent:
1 volume (127 folios)

1677. IOR/R/15/1/417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/417
Title:
File 35/87 IV (A 30) Muscat reforms
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reform of the government of the Muscat. Topics include: finances of Muscat; the lease or purchase of Gwadur [Gwadar] from the Sultan of Muscat; judicial reforms; Captain MacCollum, the wazir; the question of the abdication of Sayyid Taimur and arrangements made f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1920-20 May 1921
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

1678. IOR/R/15/1/553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/553
Title:
File 59/15 C (A 15) Muscat Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers on a range of political subjects, chiefly communicated by the Political Agent at Muscat (Percy Cox until 1904; Major William Grey thereafter) to the Political Residency. The file begins with correspondence related to the Sultan of Muscat's new...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1903-27 May 1909
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

1679. IOR/R/15/1/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/603
Title:
‘File 61/31 I (D 104) British-Saudi negotiations’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s letters, memoranda and other papers relate to negotiations between the British Government and Saudi Arabia over the extent of the latter’s eastern borders, and the position of these borders in relation to the Arab coast shaikhdoms (under British protection) and Oman. The chief autho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1934-28 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

1680. IOR/R/15/2/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/49
Title:
File H/15 Building of Pier in Manama
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, as well as J.W. Storrs, Sub-Divisional Engineer at Bushire, Sheikh ‘Īsā bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, Sheikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsā Āl Khalīfah, Yūsuf Kanoo, Seth R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1903-24 Mar 1917
Extent:
1 file (126 folios)

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