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1. IOR/R/15/2/1908

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1908
Title:
File No. E/16 V. O. Correspondence Regarding Mortgages.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding mortgages in Bahrain, including a request from the Eastern Bank for information about the legal value of a deposit of title deeds. In turn, the Political Agency explains that the deposit of title deeds of immoveable property accompanied by a mortgage de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jul 1932-20 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1914

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1914
Title:
File No. E/22 Claim of Muhammad bin Abdulla bin Hasan al Bu A'yeneh of Askar, Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of a petition and some memoranda regarding a case of land registration. The petition was raised by a Saudi Arabian resident in Bahrain called Muhammad bin Abdulla bin Hasan Al-Bu ‘Ayenen to the Political Agency in Bahrain. The petitioner was asking fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1921-9 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/143
Title:
File 2/5 IV SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the agrarian troubles in the Shaikh’s gardens caused by the tenants and the fellaheen working there who were refusin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish
Date Range:
12 Oct 1933-26 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/144
Title:
File 2/5 V SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, in southern Iraq. The correspondence concerns the Iraqi Ministry of Justice’s refusal to recognise the Power of Attorney presented to them by the Shaikh of Kuwait’s lawyer in Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1933-30 Apr 1935
Extent:

1 volume (309 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/146
Title:
File 2/5 VII SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the service of judicial documents emanating from the Iraqi Government on the Shaikh of Kuwait in connection with his...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1932-15 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:
[Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Feb 1909
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)