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191. IOR/R/15/5/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/39
Title:
File [10/12] Tribal and desert information: Ikhwan raids on Kuwait and defensive measures
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to raids made by Ikhwan forces in and around Kuwaiti territory, military action taken a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1928-31 Mar 1928
Extent:
1 file (286 folios)

192. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

193. IOR/R/15/5/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/385
Title:
Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917)
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked confidential, is Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917), prepared at the General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. The volume is an index of place names with reference to the Survey of India degree sheets upon which each place can b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (15 folios)

194. IOR/R/15/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/1
Title:
‘I/1 First Appointment of a Pol: Agent to Koweit, (Capt S. G. Knox).’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence sent and letter received by the Political Agent at Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox): a letter from Knox describing his arrival in Kuwait, the Ruler of Kuwait’s [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] response to his arrival, accommodation and food offered by the Shaikh, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Mar 1908
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

195. IOR/R/15/5/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/25
Title:
File X/2 Bin Saood, Koweit [Kuwait] & Ibn Rashid
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and his conflict with the Al Rashid rulers of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar (or Emirate of Ha'il) as well as his relations with the Ottoman Empi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1909-7 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 file (527 folios)

196. IOR/R/15/5/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/163
Title:
File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators
Scope & Content:
This file contains two documents forwarded to the Political Agent in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

197. IOR/R/15/5/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/168
Title:
File 2/15 Iraq coup d'etat and political situation in Iraq
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents and correspondence relating to the takeover of Iraq by British forces following the coup d'état in Iraq during 1941. The papers discuss the possibility of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the domestic political situation in Iraq during and immediately after both the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1941-31 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

198. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

199. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

200. IOR/R/15/5/314

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/314
Title:
File 13/4 II 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to the American Mission. It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Dr C S G Mylrea of the American Mission, Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1930-17 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)