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141. IOR/R/15/5/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/163
Title:
File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators
Scope & Content:
This file contains two documents forwarded to the Political Agent in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

142. IOR/R/15/5/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/168
Title:
File 2/15 Iraq coup d'etat and political situation in Iraq
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents and correspondence relating to the takeover of Iraq by British forces following the coup d'état in Iraq during 1941. The papers discuss the possibility of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the domestic political situation in Iraq during and immediately after both the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1941-31 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

143. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

144. IOR/R/15/5/314

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/314
Title:
File 13/4 II 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to the American Mission. It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Dr C S G Mylrea of the American Mission, Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1930-17 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

145. IOR/R/15/5/276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/276
Title:
File 6/2 II Aviation - Foreign Aircraft. (Iraqi Airways, Iranian Airways, etc. Including recommendation for I.A.T.A. approval)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and various agents for regional and international airlines pertaining to permission to establish routes to Kuwait. Papers towards the end of the file include correspondence with the UK Civil Aviation authorities and British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1949-16 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (67 folios)

146. IOR/R/15/5/123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/123
Title:
‘I/9 Forming of Army in Saudi Arabia’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence from the British Minister in Saudi Arabia (Stanley R Jordan) to the Foreign Office, dated 2 March 1944, and subsequently forwarded by the India Office to the Government of India, describing the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1944-5 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

147. IOR/R/15/5/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/128
Title:
File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

148. IOR/R/15/5/167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/167
Title:
File 2/14 Iraq Government's request for their geologist to be permitted to carry out study of rock formation in Kuwait territory
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to a request by the Iraqi Government to have its geologists conduct tests on rock formations in Kuwaiti territory. The file is entirely comprised of correspondence between British officials regarding the matter, including proposals for mineral and geological exp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1937-30 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

149. IOR/R/15/5/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/299
Title:
‘File 7/2 II Service of Summonses, Documents, etc, in Kuwait Vol. 2’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with two extradition requests from the Persian Government for two individuals believed to be residing in Kuwait: Saiyid Abdul Aziz Behbahani and Abdulla Safar. The principal correspondents being the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Gordon Loch), t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1933-14 Nov 1933
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

150. IOR/R/15/5/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/132
Title:
File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials suggested a mixed commission representing both the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government, and authorized the investigation all the frontier incidents by land and by sea that had occurred between the two st...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1935-11 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)