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211. IOR/R/15/5/17-19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/17-19
Title:
File 8 Al Sabah Family
Scope & Content:
There are 3 surviving files of ‘File 8 Al Sabah Family’. These are files 8/1, VIII/3, and VIII/6, and they contain correspondence dating mainly from 1904 till 1945. The files contain correspondence related mainly to the ruling family in Kuwait, including reports on the political and social situat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1945
Extent:
3 files (318 folios)

212. IOR/R/15/6/471

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471
Title:
'War Censorship'
Scope & Content:
This volume pertains to the wartime censorship of communication to and from Muscat during the Second World War. In particular, the volume's papers contain instructions from the Government of India to the Political Agency in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple langua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1939-8 May 1942
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

213. IOR/R/15/6/543

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/543
Title:
File 11/56 National party in Muscat/Arab States
Scope & Content:
This file contains a brief from the British Consulate in Muscat on the movements of a possible member of a regional nationalist party, and its members in Muscat. However, the short exchange between the Political Resident in Bahrain and the Agent in Muscat indicates no immediate suspicion of intri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1948-28 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

214. IOR/Z/R/15/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/Z/R/15/1/9
Title:
‘Government of India files – “A” Series’
Scope & Content:
The file is a duplicate index of IOR/Z/R/15/1/8, showing those A series files originally created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency, that survived weeding during the process of the transfer of the Bushire files to the Foreign Office in London. Unlike IOR/Z/R/15/1/8 there is no top-level inde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

215. IOR/R/15/1/550-551

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/550-551
Title:
File 58: Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files contain various miscellaneous correspondence regarding Qatar affairs between 1903 and 1934, and the drafting of the Qatar Order in Council 1935 and 1939.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1939
Extent:
2 files (260 folios)

216. IOR/R/15/2/630-632

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/630-632
Title:
File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses: recruitment of a teacher for a school in Muscat; issues involved in the purchase or lease of Masirah Island to the British Government as a permanent base;different Arabic titles by which the Sultan of Muscat liked to be referred and how this contrasted with the titles ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
3 files (35 folios)

217. IOR/R/15/2/645-650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645-650
Title:
File 27 Etiquette
Scope & Content:
The Etiquette files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, contain files from the 1930s and 1940s concerning: gun salutes for British officials and members of the various Arab ruling families in the Gulf; social etiquette (such as terms of address, relative seniority of British officials and seating ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
6 files (564 folios)

218. IOR/R/15/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/2
Title:
Letters inward and outward
Scope & Content:
This file contains miscellaneous correspondence consisting primarily of letters between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent in Muscat. The subject matter of the correspondence covers a range of subjects, most of them pertaining to the resolution of commercial and le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Gujarati
Date Range:
1 Jan 1869-1 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 file (486 folios)

219. IOR/R/15/6/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/11
Title:
Miscellaneous Political Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to a number of political, logistical and economic topics, listed on the front cover of the file, and divided into sections accordingly. These include a memorandum on geographical knowledge of Oman by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles from May 1879; Fujaira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1878-26 Nov 1879
Extent:
1 file (103 folios)

220. IOR/R/15/6/471-472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471-472
Title:
File 25: War
Scope & Content:
These sub-sub-series 'War' contains files that pertain to wartime administrative instructions for the Muscat Political Agency from the Government of India. IOR/R/15/6/471 concerns the censorship of communications to and from Muscat during the Second World War, while IOR/R/15/6/472 relates to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1939-1943
Extent:
2 volumes (465 folios)

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