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41. IOR/R/15/6/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/296
Title:
File 8/98 III Arms and Ammunition for Sultan
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition by the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence discusses arrangements for the shipping of arms and ammunition supplied by the War Office. Included are details of types of weapons ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1949-11 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (71 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/2/1499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1499
Title:
‘File 16/6 Diary weekly Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly reports (as opposed to weekly reports, as stated on its cover) from the Political Agency in Kuwait. The reports are signed by the Political Agent (Major James Carmichael More; Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), or, in his absence,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/2/781

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/781
Title:
'File 29/22 I CEREALS FOR SHARJAH AND DUBAI'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about supplies of wheat and barley for importation and local consumption in Dubai, Sharjah and the other Trucial Coast sheikhdoms, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when food grains and wheat in particular were in short supply worldwide and subjec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1943-29 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (339 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/2/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/686
Title:
‘File 28/6 War. Arrangements for the Control of Norwegian, Danish and other neutral ships, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises communications and correspondence relating to the restrictions and orders imposed by the British Government on foreign vessels, and in particular those regarded as neutral or ‘enemy’ during wartime. The papers chiefly relate to Danish and Norwegian vessels, prompted by the Ger...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-15 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/787
Title:
File 29/27 II Pulses for Bahrain and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about: the allocation of import quotas of Indian pulses for Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms in 1947; the arrangements of Bahrain and Dubai importing merchants with their exporters in Karachi, regarding shipments; and the Government of India’s subs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1946-6 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/539
Title:
File 14/4 Visits of Japanese representatives and agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, memoranda, and correspondence relating to the visits and treatment of Japanese and Italian subjects and agents in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire, the British Ministry at Jeddah, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1936-4 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/778
Title:
‘File 29/21 vol ii FOOD SUPPLIES RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Dubai and the other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, also Qatar, at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). Rice and whea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1945-30 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)

49. IOR/R/15/2/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/788
Title:
‘File 29/28 Bran for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the export of bran from Punjab, by sea from Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential animal feed such as bran was in short supply and subject to Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1943-2 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

50. IOR/R/15/2/789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/789
Title:
‘File 29/29 Tamarind for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the importation of surplus tamarind from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), when this fruit was subject to Government of India export licensing restrictions and import quotas in Persian Gulf cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1943-9 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)