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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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...
File 4535/1928 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Tamb. (and Abu Musa)’
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The volume contains papers relating to the ownership and sovereignty of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa (and Little Tamb and Sirri) in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. The papers mainly consist of correspondence and India Offi...
Coll 6/67(2) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
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This volume concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It documents preparations for negotiations with the Saudi Government, and includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Government should take in reaching a settlement wi...
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
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The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Coll 6/47 'Yemen: Relations between Italy and the Imam of the Yemen.'
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This file concerns relations between Italy and Yemen. It largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence discussing the following: Reports in 1936 that the Treaty of Friendship (1926) between Italy and Yemen has been extended until November 1937. Details of negoti...
