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1. IOR/R/15/5/273-292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/273-292
Title:
File 6: Aviation
Scope & Content:
This series contains files relating to the establishment, legal regulation and logistical operation of both military and civilian aircraft, air routes and air facilities in and around Kuwait and the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1949
Extent:
20 files (3,297 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/94-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94-108
Title:
Miscellaneous Files
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series is comprised of papers relating to British involvement in managing the relations between the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Ruler of Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] – commonly referred to as Ibn Saud. Subjects covered in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1918-1928
Extent:

15 files (2531 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/1-4
Title:
File 1: Establishment
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence about staff at the Political Agency at Kuwait, and at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and British Consulate in Bushire. Most correspondence deals with changes in staff. Some of the correspondence concerning staff members at the Kuwait Agency is of a personal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
4 files (539 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/324-327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/324-327
Title:
File 14: Agency Staff [personal]
Scope & Content:
The Agency Staff [personal] sub-sub-series consists of four, surviving correspondence files. Three files contain employee details for clerks (two Arab and one Indian) working at the British Political Agency, Kuwait and another clerk (Indian) working at the British Political Agency, Bahrain. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
4 files (39 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/20-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/20-23
Title:
File 9: [Claims]
Scope & Content:
The four surviving Claims files contain correspondence, witness statements and other related documents. The first and second files concern the investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil offences in Kuwait, falling within the jurisdiction of the British Political Agent for Kuwait. In mos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1908-1930
Extent:
4 files (579 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/51 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/51 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 14: Piracy
Scope & Content:
The Piracy sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains details about several criminal investigations and prosecution cases that were conducted by the British Political Agent at Kuwait. These offence cases relate to acts of piracy and murder at sea in the Persian Gulf and off ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1907-1914
Extent:
1 file (301 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/312 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/312 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 10: Destruction of Documents
Scope & Content:
The Destruction of Documents sub-sub-series consists of one file, which lists a number of intelligence summaries, diaries and reports that were destroyed at the Kuwait Political Agency in February 1941, apparently as a matter of procedure. The file also includes a copy of a procedure, dated 19 D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/58 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/58 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 21: Coal Depot
Scope & Content:
The Coal Depot sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait and other British officials about the planning and construction of a British coal depot at Bandar Shweikh [Shwaykh].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1917
Extent:
1 file (193 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 1: Agency Staff [policy]
Scope & Content:
The Agency Staff [policy] sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains employee details about locally recruited clerical staff working mainly in the British Political Agency in Kuwait.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1949
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/293-307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/293-307
Title:
File 7: Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial Files relate to the judicial functions of the Kuwait Political Agency over British Protected Persons, as defined by the Kuwait Order in Council. IOR/R/15/1/294-297 are concerned with the drafting of the original (1925) Order in Council, and subsequent reissues in 1935 and 1949; thes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1919-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
15 files (1175 folios)