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1. IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 89-120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 89-120
Title:
‘Certain rules proposed for the guidance of the Political Authorities at Aden’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-17 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 11 February 1848. The enclosures are dated 15 April-21 September 1847. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the administration of Aden, including: A planned census of the town Pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1848
Extent:
1 item (32 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 108-117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 108-117
Title:
Aden Affairs: Red Sea and Abyssinia
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 10 of 1850, dated 16 February 1850. The enclosed papers, dated 19 December 1849 to 15 February 1850, concern affairs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1850
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/8
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 1 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a loan made to the Persian Government in April 1903, and further advances made during 1904 and 1905. The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of the loan agreements including possible concessi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1903-17 Jan 1906
Extent:
1 volume (526 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/78
Title:
File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911
Extent:
1 volume (212 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/449
Title:
File 1173/1914 ‘Muscat:- financial affairs. Loans to the Sultan.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the financial affairs of the Muscat (Maskat) state. It includes correspondence concerning loans from the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat, reports on the financial position of Muscat, and financial statements for the Muscat ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1910-4 Apr 1927
Extent:
1 volume (303 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/827
Title:
File 2297/1919 ‘Persian Gulf Residency Monthly Reports. 1912-20.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of reports of news received by the Persian Gulf Residency (the ‘Political Diary’ of the Residency) relating to various areas of Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf, for each month from November 1911 to December 1920 (there is no report for June 1914). The parts of Persia covered...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1912-5 Apr 1921
Extent:

1 volume (518 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1245
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 14 'Nejd-Koweit: Proposals for a comprehensive settlement between Ibn Saud & the Sheikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of the British Government to mediate a settlement of the differences between the Shaikh of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit), Sir Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hej...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1929-3 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3736A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3736A
Title:
Coll 30/22 'Persian Gulf, Bahrein. Bahrein State Budget; Economy Proposals; Grant of Tariff Autonomy; Increase in Customs Duties; Developments in Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
This file contains annual budgets and financial accounts of the Government of Bahrain as well as related correspondence between British Government officials and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Ruler of Bahrain. Much of this correspondence is between officials at the Political Agency in Bahrain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1932-24 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (440 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3736B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3736B
Title:
Coll 30/22 'Persian Gulf, Bahrein. Bahrein State Budget; Question of Successor to British Adviser to Shaikh of Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials that discusses the position of Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Ruler of Bahrain, notably their frustrations with his management of the country's economic development and the need to arrange a succession process. The correspondence also...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1946-17 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3793

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3793
Title:
Coll 30/76 'Koweit: Abduction to Koweit of two Persian customs guards, by the crew of a Persian dhow.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the abduction from Dilam [Bandar-e Deylam] in Persia to Koweit [Kuwait] of two Persian customs guards by the crew of a Persian dhow. The nakhoda of the dhow feared punishment after his cargo was judged to be contraband by the Persian authorities, and so fled to Kuwait, with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1934-26 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)