Anglo-Persian War: Military Operations of the Persian Expeditionary Force
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1857, dated 24 March 1857. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 14 February-23 March 1857. The initial enclosure comprise...
Muscat and Persia Affairs in Relation to Bunder Abbass
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 101 of 1869, dated 20 March 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 5 March 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governm...
The Recognition of Syud Toorkee as Ruler of Muscat
Scope & Content:
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
Scope & Content:
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
Scope & Content:
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'
Scope & Content:
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'
Scope & Content:
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")’
Scope & Content:
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...
