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The Recognition of Syud Toorkee as Ruler of Muscat
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Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 34 of 1871, dated 23 June 1871, containing enclosures dated 20 May-16 June 1871. The enclosures relate to Muscat affairs, including: the position of Syud Toorkee bin Saeed [Sayyid Turkī bi...
Enclosures nos. 6-57 and 59 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 29 February 1840. The enclosures are dated 11 November 1839-28 February 1840. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, Sinde [Sindh] and Bombay. F...
Affairs in India, Persia, the Persian Gulf and Zanzibar
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Enclosure nos. 2-54 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 6 June-29 November 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in India, Persia [Iran], the Persian Gulf and Zanzibar, in...
Lieutenant-Colonel Outram’s Memoir on Matters Relating to Egypt
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 38 of 1850, dated 25 July 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-13 and are dated 21 January to 25 July 1850. The majority of the item consists of ...
File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute'
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Part 11 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz] over Khurma and Tarabah [Turabah]. Much of the c...
This part contains interdepartmental correspondence relating to the rebuilding of the beacon at Ras-al-Arz, Kuwait (also written in the correspondence as Koweit), following its collapse in February 1922. Later correspondence discusses the maintenance of the light at Ras-al-Arz and how it should ...
File 4613/1919 Pt 8 'MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION: LAND ACQUISITION OF LAND AT MAGIL: INCIDENCE OF COST'
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This item consists of part eight of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to the acquisition of land by the British for military purposes. The part is largely concerned with the a...
Ext 4226/43 ‘Compensation to Arabic Shaikhdoms for Losses by Enemy Action (Sinking of S.S. Dhafu); Sinking of dhows belonging to KOWEIT, QATAR, MUSCAT (Grounding of "Star of Mex")’
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The file contains policy papers discussing whether the British Government should pay out compensation for dhows lost by the Persian Gulf States as a result of enemy action. The file also discusses whether compensation should be paid to coolies killed as a result of the sinking of the Norwegian v...
Coll 1/27 'Administration of justice in Aden: regulation to replace Aden Civil and Criminal Justice Act of 1864 and certain amending acts; emoluments of District and Sessions Judges'
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The file contains papers regarding: the issue of a regulation to replace the Aden Civil and Criminal Justice Act (1864) and subsequent related amendments; the proposed delegation to the Chief Commissioner of powers under Section 86 (4) Part IV of the Civil Procedure Code; and the change of the p...
Coll 1/28 'Aden Protectorate, Lahej; conspiracy against the Sultan of Lahej and question of recognition of his eldest son as his successor'
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The file contains papers relating to the attempted assassination of Sultan Fadhl bin Abdul Karim, in response to his being named heir apparent to the Sultanate of Lahej by his father, Sultan 'Abd al Karim II ibn Al Fadhl Al 'Abdali. The file consists of copies of Political Intelligence Summari...
