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441. IOR/R/15/6/349

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/349
Title:
File 11/6 Colonel Miles' Notes on Buraimi
Scope & Content:
This file contains a single report compiled by Colonel Miles, the Political Agent in Muscat, on a visit to the Buraimi in 1875. The report contains an extensive description of the Colonel's journey, including the geographic and botanical features of the region between Muscat and Buraimi as well a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1876
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

442. IOR/R/15/6/373

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/373
Title:
File 11/20 Gwadur Political Affairs: Gwadur Riots
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers and correspondence (including a large number of telegrams) related to the outbreak of communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur [Gwadar] in March 1929 between Khojas/Aga Khanis [Ismailis] who were British subjects, and Baluchis, who were subjects of the Sultan o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, and Sindhi
Date Range:
25 Mar 1929-19 Dec 1929
Extent:
1 volume (400 folios)

443. IOR/R/15/6/374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/374
Title:
File 11/21 Gwadur Political Affairs. Gwadur Riots
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers related to the aftershocks of communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur [Gwadar] in March 1929 between Khojas/Aga Khanis [Ismailis] who were British subjects, and Baluchis, who were subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. During the troubles, which followed a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1930-26 May 1930
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)

444. IOR/R/15/6/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/385
Title:
File 11/34 II 'Defence and War Subsidy'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence between British officials concering military arrangements for the defence of Muscat. Specifically, the correspondence in the volume contains discussions regarding the following: Britain's provision of arms, ammunition and other military supplies to the Musca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1939-22 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 volume (162 folios)

445. IOR/R/15/6/445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/445
Title:
File 14/15 Middle East Oil
Scope & Content:
The file is comprised of a paper produced by the Political Intelligence Centre (Middle East Forces): 'Paper No. 80: Middle East Oil' dated 28 March 1946. The paper (ff 4-17) includes a précis and then lists the oil-producing countries of the Middle East with their oil concessions and assessmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1946-2 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

446. IOR/R/15/6/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/26
Title:
'File XXII/5 Houses and Landed Property Deeds in connection with the purchase by Govt. of the premises adjoining the British Consulate at Muscat in August. 1901 (near British Consular Escort Lines).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains conveyances and sale deeds of properties in Muscat, which were purchased by the British Consulate at Muscat, on behalf of the British Government. It also contains sale deeds between foreigners in Muscat that have been approved by the British Consulate Court at Muscat.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1883-9 Aug 1901
Extent:

1 volume (10 folios)

447. IOR/R/15/6/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/51
Title:
File XXXIII/4 H. H. Saiyid Faisal's proposal to abdicate and take British Protection from Saiyid Taimur 1903.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter sent by the Consul and Political Agent, Muscat to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla in which he reports on his interview with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the latter’s proposal to abdicate in favour of his son Saiyid Taimur bin Fai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1903-27 Oct 1923
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

448. IOR/R/15/6/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/54
Title:
'File 23/II-B-Vol II ABDICATION of SULTAN SAIYID TAIMUR & ACCESSION of SAIYID SAID Nov. 1931- Dec. 1932.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and reports related to the abdication of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īdi and the succession of his son, Sa‘id bin Taymūr in 1932. The correspondence is concerned with the financial difficulty the abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1931-2 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

449. IOR/R/15/6/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/133
Title:
File 4/6 Formal calls between Commanders of H.M. Ships, Sheikhs of Bahrein, Kuwait, Qatar and Trucial Coast.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns all aspects of ceremonial at the Political Agency, Muscat, particularly in terms of relations between British officials and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The papers include: Government of India regulations concerning the cost of firing salutes, 1938; rules governing ceremonia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1938-20 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

450. IOR/R/15/6/53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/53
Title:
File XXXIII/11B (i) ABDICATION of SULTAN. DECEMBER 1929. (ii) SULTAN’S TOUR of DEHRA DUN. (iii) VISIT by MAJOR FOWLE. (iv) SAIYID SAID’S ILLNESS. DEC 1929- JUNE 1932.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of letters and reports between the Political Agency, Muscat, the Political Residency, Bushire, the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, New Delhi, and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Taymur bin Fayṣal bin Turki al-Bu Sa‘idi regarding t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1920-6 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)