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Name Emir of Kuwait, 1718- Place Persian Gulf, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 16 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by des...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1839-16 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 item (130 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470
Title:
Measures Adopted for Suppressing the 'Slave Trade'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 107 of 1847, dated 31 December 1847. The enclosures relate to British attempts to suppress the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people]....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1847
Extent:
1 item (168 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/606
Title:
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/516
Title:
Ext 2823/41 'Bahrain. Report of ban on export of gold & silver coinage. and subsequent smuggling.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the imposition of an export licence system on the trade of gold and silver in the Persian Gulf region, at first to understand the flow of trade, and then to restrict it, lest gold find its way through Turkey into enemy-occupied destinations. Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-10 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3942

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942
Title:
Coll 30/202 ‘Persian Gulf. Photographs of Notabilities (Sheikhs &c) (used for propaganda purposes)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the use of illustrations for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It includes correspondence regarding a request from the Ministry of Information for photographs for the Middle East edition of a proposed fortnightly War P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1938-20 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B301
Title:
Memorandum on British Commitments (during the War) to the Gulf Chiefs
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning British commitments during the First World War to autonomous or independent Arab rulers of the Persian Gulf, including the Sultan of Maskat [Muscat], the Trucial Chiefs of Oman (that is, Abu Dh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/130
Title:
Report and Proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The report was printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, November 1911, and approved on 14 December 1911. It concerns the situation in the Persian Gulf regarding the extent to which Turkish claims aligned with British interests, and engagements already made with the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Nov 1911
Extent:

1 volume (43 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/311
Title:
File 9/1 Slave Traffic
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence regarding the trade in enslaved people in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait (where there was no anti-slavery agreement between the British Government and the Ruler of Kuwait). Much of the correspondence is concerned with the preparation of informat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1929-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)