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101. IOR/L/PS/12/3782

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3782
Title:
Coll 30/65 'Persian Gulf. Bahrain. Purchase of land at Bahrain by H.M.G. for naval and R.A.F. purposes'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to the purchase of land in Bahrain for the use of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force as a potential replacement for Britain's naval base on Henjam [Hengam] Island in Iran. Copies of the minutes from several meetings of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1933-14 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (473 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/12/3756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3756
Title:
Coll 30/43 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying Service in: G/I's Contribution to the Lighting Fund etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains lists of light dues (charges levied on ships for the maintenance of lighthouses and other navigation aids) owed by Admiralty vessels for entering or leaving the Shatt al-Arab. In addition to these lists, the file contains related correspondence between British officials in Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1933-16 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (181 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/12/3773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3773
Title:
Coll 30/56 'Persian Gulf. Visit of 1st Destroyer Flotilla to: 1933. Durbar of Trucial Sheikhs at Debai [Dubai]. Reaffirmation of Lord Curzon's Statement of Policy in 1903'
Scope & Content:
This file contains: Two letters from the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department to the Secretary of State for India concerning the wording of an address regarding historical agreements between the British Government and local rulers in the Persian Gulf to be given by the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1933-28 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/12/3755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3755
Title:
Coll 30/42 'Correct spelling of Bahrain/Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding whether the official spelling should be Bahrain or Bahrein. The spelling of Kuwait (Kuwait or Koweit) is also discussed in passing. The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, the Political Residency in Bush...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1932-15 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

105. IOR/L/PS/12/3786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3786
Title:
Coll 30/69 'Bahrain: Pearling Riots in.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns demonstrations by pearl divers in Bahrain in 1932, in the course of which two people were killed. The disturbances arose following the issue of a proclamation by the Government of Bahrain announcing changes in inheritance law. However, the file states that the basic cause of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1932-15 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/12/3841

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3841
Title:
Coll 30/112 'Koweit: Saudi-Koweit Frontier Incidents.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an incursion into the territory of Koweit [Kuwait] by an armed party of Saudi Arabian subjects in May 1935, their return to Saudi Arabia by the Kuwait authorities, and subsequent diplomatic contacts over the incident between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1935-5 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 file (72 folios)

107. IOR/L/PS/12/3895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3895
Title:
Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the disputed claims of the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands. The issue arose afresh in 1936 in response to a request from Petroleum Concessions Limited to settle the issue of ownership, in order that the Company could claim oil concession rights...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1936-15 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/12/3718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3718
Title:
Coll 30/8 'Persian Gulf - Pearling: Various Enquiries Concerning'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding pearl diving in the Persian Gulf, primarily in Bahrain. The majority of this correspondence is between British officials but the file also contains correspondence from a number of external parties interested in gaining access to the Persian Gulf pearl ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1929-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (164 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/12/3839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3839
Title:
Coll 30/110(5) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concessions: Umm-Al-Quwain Concession.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of an oil concession agreement between Shaikh Ahmad Bin Rashid [Aḥmad bin Rāshid Āl Mu‘allā], Ruler of Umm-al-Qaiwain (also referred to as Umm-Al-Quwain) and Petroleum Concessions Limited. The papers include copies of the agreement (signed on 20 March 1945); copies...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1945-17 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (96 folios)

110. IOR/L/PS/12/3889

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3889
Title:
Coll 30/154 'War Emergency Legislation in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the formulation of war emergency legislation for the Persian Gulf in the run-up to, and during, the Second World War. According to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle) in 1937, certain factors peculiar to the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1937-12 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (639 folios)