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11. IOR/R/15/5/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/60
Title:
File XXII 4 Koweit relations with Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to Kuwaiti relations with Bahrain from 1906 to 1920. The discussion in the volume relates to: a note of a conversation between the Resident and Shaikh Mubarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-14 May 1920
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/5/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/61
Title:
File XXII/5 Distinctive Flag for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises hand written letters, notes, typed correspondence and printed reports relating to the proposed adoption of a distinctive Kuwait flag and certificates of nationality for marine craft belonging to Shaikh Mobarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] or his subjects. Further disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-24 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/5/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/68
Title:
XXII/19 Bubyan and Warba Islands.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to ownership of Bubiyan Island [Jazīrat Būbiyān] and Warba Island [Jazīrat Warbah]. The discussion in the volume relates to: a military post on Bubiyan Island; proposal to include right of pre-emption of W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1905-7 Jun 1908
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/5/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/101
Title:
File 8/C Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud; Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of British Blockade of Land Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, for the period April 1918 to August 1918 relating to the main topics: Harry St John Bridger Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud. Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of the British blockade of land trade. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1918-2 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (191 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/5/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/103
Title:
File 12/C(2) Najd Mission: operation of blockade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the mission of Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Sa'ud in Najd. Correspondence discusses the operation of the blockade of all land trade to Kuwait. Correspondence includes Philby's handwritten notes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1918-17 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/6/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/188
Title:
File [VIIIB/2] MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: Zanzibar Subsidy and Arms Subsidy
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns two subsidies paid by the Government of India to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, which are referred to in the correspondence as the Zanzibar subsidy and the arms traffic subsidy. The latter subsidy is referred to as initially having been granted to Sultan Faisal bin Turki [Fa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1921-25 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/6/258

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/258
Title:
File 8/65 VI RENEWAL OF COMMERCIAL TREATY 1939
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the renewal of the Commercial Treaty between Britain and Muscat. The original treaty of 1891 was given a term of twelve years, which was extended at regular intervals afterwards, initially for several years at a time and later on an annual basis. In 1939 a replacement treaty...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1948-19 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)