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261. IOR/R/15/1/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/353
Title:
File 19/176 IV (C 71) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed records of Bahraini government budgets, revenues and expenditures for the years 1934 to 1937. The file also contains a number of reports compiled by Charles Belgrave (Shaikh Hamad's advisor). These reports cover the pearling trade and diving industry, the police force...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1934-14 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

262. IOR/R/15/1/393

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/393
Title:
File 35/17 I Attack on Dhufar
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning an attack on Dhofar by the Kathiri tribe. The attack was sparked off by the imprisonment of a tribesman for evading the Sultan's tax on frankincense. Letters discuss the dispatch of an armed force from Muscat to Salalah in dhows, led by Sayyid Saif bin Hamad bin Salim t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1895-26 May 1897
Extent:
1 volume (127 folios)

263. IOR/R/15/1/417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/417
Title:
File 35/87 IV (A 30) Muscat reforms
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reform of the government of the Muscat. Topics include: finances of Muscat; the lease or purchase of Gwadur [Gwadar] from the Sultan of Muscat; judicial reforms; Captain MacCollum, the wazir; the question of the abdication of Sayyid Taimur and arrangements made f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1920-20 May 1921
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

264. IOR/R/15/1/553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/553
Title:
File 59/15 C (A 15) Muscat Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers on a range of political subjects, chiefly communicated by the Political Agent at Muscat (Percy Cox until 1904; Major William Grey thereafter) to the Political Residency. The file begins with correspondence related to the Sultan of Muscat's new...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1903-27 May 1909
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

265. IOR/R/15/1/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/603
Title:
‘File 61/31 I (D 104) British-Saudi negotiations’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s letters, memoranda and other papers relate to negotiations between the British Government and Saudi Arabia over the extent of the latter’s eastern borders, and the position of these borders in relation to the Arab coast shaikhdoms (under British protection) and Oman. The chief autho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1934-28 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

266. IOR/R/15/1/630, f 34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/630, f 34
Title:
Sketch map of Qatar Peninsula
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Unsigned and undated. Hand-drawn map with the route of the Qatar Air Reconnaissance carried out by Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Loch on 29th June 1934 shown by red line.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after Jun 1934
Extent:
1 map

267. IOR/R/15/1/200

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/200
Title:
‘File 5/65 I Question of disposal of emancipated slaves and proposal to check traffic between Muscat, Oman ports and Zanzibar’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between Government of India officials and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf, on the question of the disposal or repatriation of slaves manumitted in the Gulf region, in response to concerns from the Government of Bombay over the potential social conseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1889-14 Jul 1905
Extent:

1 volume (95 folios)

268. IOR/R/15/1/382, f 55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/382, f 55
Title:
A map showing the Turco-Persian frontier
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: A photographic copy of ‘APPENDIX IV. MAP ENCLOSURE TO H.E. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S DESPATCH NO. C.O/120 DATED 9TH DECEMBER 1921’. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Existing and proposed boundaries, and Turco-Persian Frontier as delimited in 1914 shown in colour...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 map

269. IOR/R/15/1/531, f 121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/531, f 121
Title:
‘Rough sketch to illustrate [the October 1933] incident’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Hand drawn sketch map of Kuwait-Iraq maritime frontier attached to a report to illustrate incident between Iraqi Customs Authorities and a Kuwaiti vessel near Bubiyan Island on 15th October 1933 (folios 116-120). Kuwait-Iraq frontier indicated by red dash-dot line with t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 map

270. IOR/R/15/1/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199
Title:
‘File 5/6 I Brussels Conference and general rules and procedure on slave traffic’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence related to the distribution of the text of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 throughout the Persian Gulf region. The English version of the Act is on folios 32-37. William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Government of India in Bombay, sent Adelbert Talbot (Political ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1892-21 May 1925
Extent:

1 volume (137 folios)