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8231. IOR/R/15/2/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/470
Title:
'11/8 OPENING A BANK AT AL KHOBAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns plans in 1944-45 and 1949 to open bank branches on the mainland of Saudi Arabia. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited, Bahrain; the A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1944-28 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

8232. 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)

8233. IOR/R/15/2/623

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/623
Title:
File 22/23 Recognition of FUJAIRAH as Independent State
Scope & Content:
The file correspondence begins with a note dated 1938 from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain announcing the succession of Shaikh Muhammad bin Hamad ash-Sharqi to the Trucial Coast Shaikhdom of Fujairah, on the death of his brother, Shaikh Saif bin Hamad ash-Sharqi, 24 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
02 Jan 1938-09 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

8234. IOR/R/15/2/770

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/770
Title:
‘File 29/18-A TEA FOR THE TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about Indian tea exports to the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World War (1939-1945), when tea and other essential commodities were in short s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1944-17 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

8235. 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)

8236. 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)

8237. 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)

8238. IOR/R/15/2/1376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1376
Title:
‘File 12/7 II Arrival of country craft from India’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the shipment and transhipment of cargo (chiefly rice, sugar, spices, piece goods) from India (Karachi) to the ports of the Persian Gulf, chiefly Dubai, Katar [Qatar, also spelt Gutter, Quatter in the file] and Bahrain. The file is a direct chronologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1924-4 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (498 folios)

8239. IOR/R/15/5/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/43
Title:
File 11/5 Titles. Koweit 15 Recommendations for Titles and Honours
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Ruler of Kuwait, Mubarak us Subah (Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ); his successor Shaikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department; the Secretary to the Most Exalted Order of the Star ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1907-2 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

8240. IOR/R/15/5/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/103
Title:
File 12/C(2) Najd Mission: operation of blockade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the mission of Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Sa'ud in Najd. Correspondence discusses the operation of the blockade of all land trade to Kuwait. Correspondence includes Philby's handwritten notes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1918-17 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

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