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21. IOR/R/15/5/59-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/59-71
Title:
File 22: Kuwait's relations with other Powers
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait subject files (22: Kuwait's relations with other powers) cover a wide range of topics relating to Kuwait's relations with other powers and include correspondence regarding: Kuwait's relations with Bahrain; a distinctive design for Kuwait's flag; the status of Kuwait and negotiations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1925
Extent:
13 files (1630 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/5/365-398

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/365-398
Title:
Miscellaneous official and non-official printed material
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series consists of official and some non-official printed material collected at the Kuwait Agency, presumably for reference purposes. The material includes dictionaries, gazetteers, travel diaries, reports, indexes, and manuals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1829-1940
Extent:
58 files and volumes

23. IOR/R/15/5/10-11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/10-11
Title:
File 4: Buildings
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub series IOR/R/15/5/10-11 is comprised of a volume and file regarding accommodation for the Medical Officer of the Kuwait Political Agency, and regarding the lease of a new agency building.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1946
Extent:
2 files (263 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/5/170-178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/170-178
Title:
File 3: Kuwait/Iran Relations
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait/Iran relations sub-sub-series concerns Kuwait's and Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). Three of the files relate to cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized, and in some cases detained, by the Persian authorities. Other matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1928-1949
Extent:
9 files and volumes (1308 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/5/321 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/321 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 2: Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths
Scope & Content:
The Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains details from the Registers of Births, Deaths and Christian marriages kept by the Political Agent, Kuwait in respect of British, other European, and former British Indian subjects of India ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

26. 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)

27. IOR/R/15/5/43-44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/43-44
Title:
File 11: [Ceremonials]
Scope & Content:
The volume and the file forming the 'Ceremonials' subject files were produced by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The 'Ceremonials' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and the Rulers of Kuwait, discussing honours and titles to be granted, and infor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hindustani
Date Range:
1907-1929
Extent:

1 volume and 1 file (23 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/5/205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/205
Title:
File 4/20 I Koweit Situation
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political developments in Kuwait (referred to as Koweit several times throughout the file), specifically tensions that occurred between the country's ruler, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, and a group of reformist opposition f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1938-27 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (350 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/5/232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/232
Title:
File C 4/45 Kuwait-Syrian Relations
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait and Iraq, as well as the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and his Secretary, Abdullah Mulla Saleh, regarding the whereabouts of a Syrian national named De Rovan Kouyoumji (also written in the file as Derovan Kay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1949-21 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/5/207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/207
Title:
File 4/21 Kuwait Nationality and International Status of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between officials at the India Office and the Foreign Office regarding the legal status and historical development of Bahraini and Kuwaiti nationality. The rear of the file also contains correspondence and notes regarding the delineation of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1937-4 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)