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File 68/1912 Pt 7 'Arms Traffic: Muscat Arms. - Disposal of. Sample Arms from Muscat. French stocks at Muscat.
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: acquisition from French dealers at Muscat of sample rifles and...
Coll 6/7(3) 'The Yemen: Relations between H.M.G. and the Imam.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and Imam Yehia bin Muhammad Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Imam of Yemen]. Much of the correspondence discusses the progress of treaty negotiations between the British Government and the Imam (a treaty was eventually signed...
Coll 20/3(2) 'Muscat: Relations with H. M. G.; Commercial Treaty: Revision of'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, minutes, and draft correspondence relating to the revision of the Anglo-Muscat Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891. The revision is based upon the proposals (folios 601-56) of Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd...
Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf, with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923 Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923 Proposed ap...
Encroachments of the Wahhabis Upon the Territory of the Sultan of Muscat - Question to What Extent If Any, the Bombay Government Should Intervene on Behalf of the Sultan
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 11 of 22 February 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of I...
Papers regarding Zanzibar and Muscat, Vol 3 - continued refusal of the Sultan of Zanzibar to pay the Muscat subsidy
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 1 of 6 January 1869, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Indi...
Papers regarding Zanzibar and Muscat, Vol 5 - payment into the Bombay General Treasury of the arrears of subsidy due by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Muscat State
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 1 of 6 January 1869, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of India...
Papers regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 8 - punitive measures taken by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf against the Rulers of Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Qatar - agreements concluded with these Rulers
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 1 of 6 January 1869, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of India...
Secret No. 13 of 1882, ‘Persian Gulf: Piracy a Bahrein boat by Zaid bin Muhammad: further papers’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political/Secret Despatch and enclosures from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, Number 13 of 1882, dated 6 February 1882. The enclosures date from 16 November 1881 to 13 January 1882 and concern the alleged theft a...
Secret No. 21 of 1883, Papers Regarding the Ill-treatment of British Indian traders at El-Bidaa
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a General Despatch with enclosures from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, Number 21 of 1883, dated 6 February 1883, and received by the India Office’s Political Department on 28 February 1883. The enclosures date from 15 Decem...
