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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, 1783-1937

381. IOR/L/PS/12/3552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3552
Title:
Coll 29/2 'Bushire Residency: question of transfer to Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the business case to transfer the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain. The file is composed of internal correspondence between British officials including the Foreign Office (C W Baxter), the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive, Reginald ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Apr 1929-5 Mar 1938
Extent:
1 volume (447 folios)

382. IOR/L/PS/12/3800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3800
Title:
Coll 30/83 'QATAR OIL CONCESSION, POLICY AND PROTECTION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns British Government policy towards Qatar in the light of the bid by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) to obtain a concession from the Shaikh of Qatar (Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī]) to produce oil in the country. The British Government were keen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1933-12 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 volume (505 folios)

383. IOR/L/PS/12/3846

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3846
Title:
Coll 30/117 'Persian Gulf. Bahrain Grievances of the Baharinah.'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this file relate to the grievances of the Baharnah (the native population of Bahrain). The papers include: The petition of the Baharnah to the Ruler of Bahrain Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa requesting the adoption of a Qanun (code of laws) in the courts, proportional representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1935-11 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

384. IOR/L/PS/12/3858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3858
Title:
Coll 30/125 'Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Visit of the Sheikh of Bahrein to England 1936'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a state visit to Britain made by the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa al-Khalifa, in June 1936. The correspondence discusses the logistics of the visit in detail, including the journey there and back from Bahrain (via ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1936-23 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (340 folios)

385. IOR/L/PS/12/4088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4088
Title:
Coll 34/1 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Slave traffic in the Red Sea: Use of Air Patrols'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to anti-slavery measures in the Red Sea. The correspondence is interdepartmental in nature, principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, and the Foreign and Political Department of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1930-21 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

386. IOR/L/PS/12/4091

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4091
Title:
Coll 34/4 'Slavery: Persian Gulf: Reports on; Attitude of HMG'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and slave traffic in the Persian Gulf. Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Admiralty, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Colonial Office, and the Political Residency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1919-22 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (355 folios)

387. IOR/L/PS/12/4096

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4096
Title:
Coll 34/9 'Slavery: Slavery Convention: Position of certain independent States in relation to:'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the position of independent Indian States with regard to the 1926 'International Convention with the object of Securing the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade', a copy of which is found on folios 27-32. The correspondence is between: Government of India, Foreign an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1937-4 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

388. IOR/L/PS/18/B250a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B250a
Title:
Treaty with the Idrisi Saiyid. No 33A of 1915. Government of India Foreign and Political Department
Scope & Content:
This file contains a 'Treaty of Friendship and Goodwill' and is signed by David George Levigne Shaw, the Political Resident in Aden, on behalf of the British Government, and by Saiyid Mustafa bin Saiyid Abdu'l 'Ali on the part of His Eminence Saiyid Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Id...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

389. IOR/L/PS/18/B419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B419
Title:
Future Policy on the Trucial Coast. Correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (1929)
Scope & Content:
The file contains a note written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office introducing enclosed correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf concerning the Trucial Coast policy of His Majesty's Government. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1929
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

390. IOR/L/PS/20/289/B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/B
Title:
‘Foreign Department Notes. Arms Traffic in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to the arms traffic in the Persian Gulf: a letter from Leonard William Reynolds of the Government of India, dated 29 June 1909 (ff 2-3) a confidential letter from the British Minister to Belgium, Arthur Henry Hardinge, to the Secretary of S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)