Search

036-000241998 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

321. IOR/R/15/5/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/391
Title:
Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911)
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked confidential, is Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911), prepared by the General Staff, India, and printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1913. The report begins with a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1913
Extent:

1 volume (20 folios)

322. IOR/R/15/5/136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/136
Title:
File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1931-19 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

323. IOR/R/15/5/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/137
Title:
File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. A particular taxation system called Istihlak (consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1932-26 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

324. IOR/R/15/5/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/60
Title:
File XXII 4 Koweit relations with Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to Kuwaiti relations with Bahrain from 1906 to 1920. The discussion in the volume relates to: a note of a conversation between the Resident and Shaikh Mubarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-14 May 1920
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

325. IOR/R/15/5/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/74
Title:
File 27/12 II Kuwait Trade Reports from 1917-18 to 1923-24
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily concerns the preparation and submission of annual trade reports. Most of the volume consists of copies of trade reports for Kuwait (for each financial year from 1917-1918 up to and including 1923-1924), which are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait [Captain Daniel Vinc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1919-1 Apr 1924
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

326. IOR/R/15/5/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/172
Title:
File 3/2 Interference with Kuwait Sailing Craft on High Seas by Persian warships.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to incidents of Kuwaiti sailing boats being intercepted (and in some cases seized and detained) by Persian warships and other vessels, on suspicions of smuggling. The file largely consists of correspondence between British officials regarding several specific incidents, includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
10 Apr 1933-23 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (273 folios)

327. IOR/R/15/5/121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/121
Title:
‘I Riyadh (VII) Colonel Dickson’s v[isit] to Riyadh (Includes visits of other Europeans to Riyadh’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to visits made by Europeans and Americans to Saudi Arabia, and specifically to Riyadh: A visit made in 1937 by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, former Political Agent at Kuwait, reportedly in his capacity as a representative of the Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1937-15 Nov 1945
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

328. IOR/R/15/5/151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/151
Title:
File 2/5 XII 'Ownership of HH Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/150. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding law suits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties. The papers discus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1939-5 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (268 folios)

329. IOR/R/15/5/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/69
Title:
22/23 I Kuwait Conference 1923
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the 1923 Kuwait Conference to arbitrate the Najd-Transjordan and Najd-Hijaz boundaries. The discussion in the volume relates to the following: a proposal to hold Conference at Kuwait to settle the Naj...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1923-16 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

330. IOR/R/15/5/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/71
Title:
File 22/23 III Kuwait Conference
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the 1923-24 Kuwait Conference to arbitrate the Najd-Transjordan and Najd-Hijaz boundaries. Includes the following: resumption of Conference in absence of Iraqi delegates following Ikhwan raid; breakdown...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1924-16 Aug 1925
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)