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1. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

2. IOR/R/15/6/1-21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/1-21
Title:
Muscat Agency, General Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains reports, political correspondence, and memoranda on the general political affairs of Oman between 1829-98. A significant portion of the papers contains correspondence on rebellions against the authority of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, trade reports, and the foreign ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1898
Extent:
21 files (4,328 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/542-543

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/542-543
Title:
Muscat Agency, Additional Subject Files
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub-series Additional Subject Files is composed of two files that are unrelated in content but consist of briefings and consultations with the Muscat Political Agency on the movements of wanted or potentially wanted individuals arriving in Muscat from elsewhere in the Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
2 files (30 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/31-35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/31-35
Title:
File XXV: Arabian Politics
Scope & Content:
The Arabian Politics sub-sub-series consists of files containing correspondence and reports related to political developments in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an emphasis on the British Government's relationship with the Ruler of Nejd, Ibn Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913-1928
Extent:
5 files (564 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/145-181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/145-181
Title:
File 6: Foreign Interests
Scope & Content:
The Foreign Interests sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of foreign states in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the wider Gulf region. The files relate to the United States of America (IOR/R/15/6/145-147,174,179), France (IOR/R/15/6/148-151), Germany (IOR/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1950
Extent:
37 files (1157 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/466-468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/466-468
Title:
File 19: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Miscellaneous sub-sub-series consists of three files concerning the following subjects: The purchase of a number of boats by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman The Bretton Woods Agreement and its applicability in the Persian Gulf An incident in which an Egyptian-owned merchant vessel named Star o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1948
Extent:
3 files (425 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/135-142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/135-142
Title:
File 5: Establishment
Scope & Content:
The Establishment files of the Political Agency, Muscat provide general information about the composition of the Agency's staff during the period in question, including comprehensive Annual Returns of staff for the period 1933-47 (IOR/R/15/6/138-139). IOR/R/15/6/137 concerns proposals for the ap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1948
Extent:
7 files (369 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/423-447

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/423-447
Title:
File 14: Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence relating to oil concessions in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, mineral deposits in Oman, explorations by geologists, the Sultanate's relationship to the Sterling Area, and the development of banking arrangements in the Sultanate.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1911-1951
Extent:
25 files and volumes (2475 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/72-121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/72-121
Title:
File 2: Aviation
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series ‘Aviation’ covers the signing of Civil Air Agreements between the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman between 1934 and 1947, and the establishment of landing grounds at various sites in the Sultan’s territories. The landing grounds were established as a war me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1926-1951
Extent:
50 files and volumes (5484 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/448-450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/448-450
Title:
File 15: Visitors and Suspicious Persons
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to entry and exit of a number of individuals to Muscat and the observations of British officials concerning them. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1923-1947
Extent:
3 files (313 folios)