Coll 34/9 'Slavery: Slavery Convention: Position of certain independent States in relation to:'
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Correspondence regarding the position of independent Indian States with regard to the 1926 'International Convention with the object of Securing the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade', a copy of which is found on folios 27-32. The correspondence is between: Government of India, Foreign an...
Coll 35/2(2) 'Transmission of air mail bags to and from Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns the dispatch of air mail diplomatic bags to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers the proposal to send Persian Gulf mail by RAF from Bahrain, in 1944. The file is composed of correspondence between the Air Ministry, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary ...
Coll 44/16 ‘Persian Gulf. Introduction of an export licensing system. Regulation made under Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939).’
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The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the introduction of an export licensing system for Arab countries in the Persian Gulf during the Second World War. The papers notably cover the following: The Bahrain (also written in the file as Bahrein) Petroleum Compa...
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
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A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Letter from Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary of State for India, to Robert Bourke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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The letter outlines the opinion of the India Office that no negotiations should be opened with the Turkish authorities over more clearly defined areas of jurisdiction and responsibility for the two powers along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is argued that Britain should maintain the...
'NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF BAHRAIN AND ANTIQUITIES BY CAPTAIN E. L. DURAND, 1ST ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF.'
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Letter No. 164 from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Her British Majesty's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 1 May 1879, enclosing notes on the islands of Bahrain and Antiquities, written by Edward Law ...
Middle East Committee. Note Prepared for Meeting of 12 January 1918. Policy in regard to Bin Saud
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This printed memorandum is a note, dated 10 January 1918, prepared by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, for a meeting of the Middle East Committee on 12 January 1918, concerning British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd ...
Oil Interests in the Persian Gulf. Communicated by the Board of Trade and revised to 28 June 1928.
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Memorandum outlining oil concessions in Persia and Iraq held by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Standard Oil, and the Turkish Petroleum Company. It covers the Arabian littoral of the Gulf, and highlights the restrictions placed on Arab rulers by treaty engagements from granting oil concessions wit...
General agreement... [between] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited
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The file is concerned with an agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, which relates to the oil concession agreed between the company and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, in respect of the di...
Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1861. The letters are dated 1 January 1861-29 December 1861. The abstracts are numbered 183-301 and each have one of the ...
