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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Wahabi, Tribe, 18th century- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/9/67/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/57
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, to Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, to Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], sent from Fort William and dated 31 October 1808. The letter: reprimands Jones for leaving for Persia without communicating with Minto; outlines the political situat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1808
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/67/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/61
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to Captain Charles Pasley
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to Captain Charles Pasley, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 29 December 1808, concerning the planned occupation of Karrack [Khārg] island as part of a new defence strategy in the region. The letter requests that Pasley prepare to join Malc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1808
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/69/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/35
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from Bombay and dated 27 November 1819. The letter contains instructions for the handover of power in Ras-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1819
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/69/207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/207
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 14 Jul 1824
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent from Sultanieh [Soltānīyeh] and dated 8 July 1824. Subjects covered in the letter include: Events in Khorasan The rumoured death of the Khan of Khiva Mah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1824
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1124
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924; Wahabi attack on Hedjaz. Capture of Taif & defeat of Hedjaz Army. Abdication of King Hussein.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the invasion of the Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces associated with the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the subsequent abdication of the King of Hedjaz, Amir Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāsh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1924-6 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2074

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2074
Title:
Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1928-26 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 volume (649 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2111

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2111
Title:
Coll 6/44 'Hejaz and Indian Muslims. Desecration of tombs by Wahabis, etc.'
Scope & Content:
This file compiles copies of appeals made by representatives of Indian Muslims to the British Government (and in one case, to the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi]), regarding the desecration of various holy buildings and monuments by Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1930-18 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B164
Title:
British relations with the Wahabees
Scope & Content:
Printed report communicated by the India Office and printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The report concerns British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabi] emirs, from 1904 to 1907, the growing influence of Ibn Sa‘ūd [Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal] and the British pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1908
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B403

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B403
Title:
The Trucial Chiefs, 1908-28
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the external developments which took place in the Trucial States, covering 1908-28, and how problems presented by the States stand at the time of writing. Covering: introduction – to the memorandum itself; Trucial Chiefs; administration; responsibility of pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B437

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B437
Title:
Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
Scope & Content:
The file contains a historical memorandum written in response to claims advanced by Ibn Saud to ancestral rights on the eastern boundary of the Saudi Kingdom, and to suggestions put forward by him that at some period in the past arrangements were entered into with his ancestors, the Wahabi Amirs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934
Extent:

1 file (32 folios)