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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Muscat Political Agency and Consulate, 1861-1971

11. IOR/R/15/2/1670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1670
Title:
File 20/5 CEREMONIALS AND HONOURS. Honours, Titles & Decorations
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the grant of titles and badges to various persons in the Gulf. For instance, the title ‘Khan Bahadur’ was given to, among others, Khan Sahib Abdur Rahman Zaiyani, an Arab merchant, and to Mirza Ismail Barduli, an interpreter at the Agency in Muscat. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1914-Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/1811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1811
Title:
File 36/101 Programmes from U.S.A.
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the imports from the United States that the Governments of Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait required for the year 1946. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat and the Political Residency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1945-3 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/4/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/12
Title:
File 24/2 Oil concessions, Volume II
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the negotiations and signing of oil concessions in the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates). The correspondence is principally between the British Agency in Sharjah, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat, representatives of Pet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 May 1937-1 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (200 folios)

14. 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