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11. IOR/R/15/1/93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/93
Title:
‘Secret Letters Outward’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters sent under the heading ‘Secret Department’ from the Residency in the Persian Gulf (either from the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell, or the Assistant Resident, T Mackenzie), to the Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, throughout 1840 and 1841. The princi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1840-30 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/1/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/115
Title:
‘Old Index Book No 159 From January 1848 To December 1848’ Vol 159 Outward letter book, 1848
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent in 1848 by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and also to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Farrant, Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1848-31 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 volume (310 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/1/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/117
Title:
‘Bushire letters out 1848 PT 1 Bushire letters out 1848 PT 2’ Vol 162 Outward letter book, 1849
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent in 1849 by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
01 Jan 1849-31 Dec 1849
Extent:
2 volumes (309 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/1/120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/120
Title:
Vol 166 ‘1850 No.3. Political Department Bushire Resident English Records Arabian Coast of Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters written mainly in 1850 and a few letters written in December 1849. Most letters are from Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay. The Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1849-21 Dec 1850
Extent:

1 volume (98 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/1/155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/155
Title:
'Book No 219. From November 1856 and January 1857 To July 1861'
Scope & Content:
Volume regarding affairs in Muscat relating to Syed Torkee [Turkī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd] of Sohar's rebellious actions against Syed Soweynee [Thuwaynī ibn Saʻīd Āl Sa‘īd]. The volume discusses the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] Chief's attempts at spreading dissention in Oman; the involvement of their br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857-9 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/1/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/391
Title:
File 35/10 Attack on Muscat by Shaikh Salih, 1895
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the attack on Muscat in1895 when Shaikh Abdullah bin Salih took control of the town with the Sultan of Muscat holding Fort Jalali. The correspondence discusses the Political Agent's desire to protect British subjects and property and his inability to order intervention ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1895-22 Jun 1895
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/1/393

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/393
Title:
File 35/17 I Attack on Dhufar
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning an attack on Dhofar by the Kathiri tribe. The attack was sparked off by the imprisonment of a tribesman for evading the Sultan's tax on frankincense. Letters discuss the dispatch of an armed force from Muscat to Salalah in dhows, led by Sayyid Saif bin Hamad bin Salim t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1895-26 May 1897
Extent:
1 volume (127 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/1/394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/394
Title:
File 35/23 Continuation of rebellion by Shaikh Salih; measures adopted for compensating the sufferers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the attack by the tribes of Oman on Muscat in 1895 in which British subjects lost property leading to the insistence by British officials that a tax be levied on dates coming from the rebel areas. Letters discuss the British guarantee to Sayyid Faisal bin Turki, Sultan ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1895-23 Feb 1903
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/1/433

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/433
Title:
Muscat Rising of 1913
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the 1913 uprising of the Ibāḍī imamate and the tribes of the interior of Oman under the leadership of Sālim bin Rāshid al-Kharūṣī against the authority of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, al-Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd, and the subsequent intervention and deployment of B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1913-30 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (303 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/1/444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/444
Title:
File 35/134 IV (A 56) Sur. Ja'alan - Amirs of.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to actions against the Bani Bu Ali [Banī Bū ‘Alī] in Sur in 1932 who were claiming independence from the Muscat State. Correspondence discusses how the Bani Bu Ali led by Shaikh Ali bin Abdullah al-Hammuda [Muḥammed bin Nāṣir al-Ḥamūdah] were rebelling against the Su...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1931-18 Mar 1932
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)