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11. IOR/R/15/6/25-26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/25-26
Title:
File XXII: Houses and Landed Property
Scope & Content:
File XXII: Houses and Landed Property consists of two files: file XXII/2 and volume XXII/5. The files contain correspondence dating from 1883 until 1905. The correspondence is mainly in the form of notifications, conveyances and sale deeds of properties owned by British subjects or British protec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1883-1905
Extent:
2 files (40 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/6/27-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27-30
Title:
File XXIII: Travels in Oman
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub-series consists of files that contain correspondence and reports related to a number of journeys made in and around Oman by both British Government officials and private explorers. It also contains details of a number of planned journeys that did not eventually take place.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1894-1927
Extent:
4 files (144 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/6/454-463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/454-463
Title:
File 17: Government Property
Scope & Content:
The Government Property sub-sub-series contains files and volumes that discuss issues concerning buildings, land (including cemeteries) and other property owned by the British Government inside the borders of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The majority of the correspondence in these files i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, and Urdu
Date Range:
1912-1948
Extent:
10 files (1,216 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/6/332-333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/332-333
Title:
File 10: Passports and Protection
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series covers correspondence related to the Iranian Government’s order known as the Tehran order, on treating people arriving at Persian ports from Bahrain, Muscat, Dubai and Oman as Persian subjects. It also includes correspondence related to the impounding of British subjects’ pass...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1928-1938
Extent:
2 files (60 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/6/183-297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/183-297
Title:
File 8: Muscat State Affairs
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Muscat State Affairs' documents the involvement of the British Government in the administration of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's domestic and foreign affairs from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Whilst the sub-sub-series contains material rangin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Turkish, and Urdu
Date Range:
1890-1961
Extent:
115 files and volumes (10,106 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/6/402-413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402-413
Title:
File 12: Roads and Communications
Scope & Content:
The Roads and Communications files of the Political Agency, Muscat mostly concern mail and telegraph services in Muscat and Gwadar. The files cover the following topics: a single letter discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa, 1937 (IOR/R/15/6/402); the opera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1951
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1260 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/6/128-134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/128-134
Title:
File 4: Ceremonials, Honours and Awards
Scope & Content:
The Subject files File 4 (Ceremonials, Honours and Awards) sub-sub-series of the Political Agency, Muscat covers the following information relating to Muscat and Oman: the Silver Jubilee of King George V; the death of King George V; the Coronation of King George VI; flags; ceremonial, etiquette a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1948
Extent:
7 files and volumes (391 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/6/67-68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/67-68
Title:
File 42: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Miscellaneous sub-sub-series consists of two files that contain correspondence regarding a number of issues, notably the allocation of a piece of land in Muscat for use as a Christian cemetery and this cemetery's subsequent consecration.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899-1902
Extent:
2 files (67 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/6/334-401

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/334-401
Title:
File 11: Political
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Political' contains correspondence and papers related to political matters in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the surrounding region. Political here is defined broadly and as such as the sub-sub-series' contents is diverse in nature. Subjects covered include: Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Urdu
Date Range:
1906-1951
Extent:
68 files and volumes (6,472 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/6/122-127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/122-127
Title:
File 3 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:
The Subject files File 3 (Books and Publications) sub-sub-series of the Political Agency, Muscat covers the following information relating to Muscat and Oman: customary law, charts and maps, land routes, and transliteration of vernacular names and places.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Pashto, and Persian
Date Range:
1929-1939
Extent:
6 files (184 folios)