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161. IOR/R/15/6/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/169
Title:
File 6/30 Foreign Interests: Sa'udi Arabian Affairs
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a copy of an extract of a letter composed by the British Legation in Jeddah regarding the importation of large numbers of rupees from India into Saudi Arabia through the port of Jedda [Jeddah].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1935-28 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

162. IOR/R/15/6/404

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/404
Title:
File 12/1 II CABLE & WIRELESS MUSCAT
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. Correspondence on two separate topics has been merged in the file: (1) Correspondence concerning Abdul Jalil Zawawi, a Cable and Wireless probationer, who had run away from the Company's school in Karachi and gone to Laho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1949-5 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

163. IOR/R/15/6/405

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/405
Title:
File 12/1 III Cable and Wireless Ltd
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: draft of a Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; draft and agreed versions of the Muscat-Muttrah Telephone Licence between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1950-25 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

164. IOR/R/15/6/418

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/418
Title:
File 13/2 II 'ACTIVITIES OF SLAVE RUNNERS IN MUSCAT TERRITORY'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the slave traffic on the Batina Coast [Al Bāţinah], as well as the searching of Persian dhows in Muscat territorial waters. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Muscat, and the Politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1941-9 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)

165. IOR/R/15/6/419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/419
Title:
File 13/3 'SLAVERY & SLAVE RUNNING: MIRZA BIN BARKAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the slave trade at Fujairah and the piratical activities of Mirza ibn Barkat. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Kuwait; and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1941-23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

166. IOR/R/15/6/420

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/420
Title:
File 13/3 III 'SLAVE TRADE: Instructions for Manumission of Slaves'
Scope & Content:
The file is composed of two pieces of correspondence: A letter (21 May 1949) from the Persian Gulf Residency to the Political Agent, Muscat, requesting statistics for manumission in the Muscat Agency's jurisdiction during the year ending 31 March 1949 A letter (June 13 1949) from the Political A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1949-13 Jun 1949
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

167. IOR/R/15/6/422

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/422
Title:
File 13/5 'SLAVERY IN THE PERSIAN GULF: JALAL'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to slave trafficking in Muscat territory from the Makran coast. The file includes a note (ff 5-6) from the Political Agent, Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf 'SLAVERY ON THE BATINAH [Al-B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1942-31 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

168. IOR/R/15/6/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/462
Title:
File XVII/19 Government Property; Christian Cemetery at Gwadur
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter sent to the Political Residency in Bushire regarding the 'deplorable state of neglect' of the Christian cemetery in Gwadur [Gwadar] and an estimate of costs for the construction of a wall around the cemetery that was sent by the British Agency in Gwadur to the Politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

169. IOR/R/15/6/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/135
Title:
File 5/4 (i) PRADHAM SINGH
Scope & Content:
The file title contains an inaccurate spelling: Pradham Singh should appear as Pradhan Singh, as on folio 2. The file consists of a single letter, from Major Claude Edward Urquhart Bremner, Political Agent and HBM's Consul, Muscat, to the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

170. IOR/R/15/6/357

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/357
Title:
File [XI A/14] British Consulate Muscat
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers with the diary entries of the Political Agent in Muscat spaced at two weeks apart. They contain information on shipping, local affairs, British interests, and other powers' interests in Muscat and Oman; travels of the Sultan and his meetings with dignitaries, visitors an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1936-31 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (211 folios)