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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Sugar Name Ministry of Food, 1939-1955

1. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/787
Title:
Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-194...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/951
Title:
Ext 4741/44 'Shipment of supplies to Muscat: Mozambique sugar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding imports of sugar, tea and other commodities from Mozambique to Muscat, and their onward export to Persia. The file covers considerations of increased restrictions on such imports and potential withholding of tea from India in order to uphold rationing. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1944-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)