Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917)
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The volume, marked confidential, is Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917), prepared at the General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. The volume is an index of place names with reference to the Survey of India degree sheets upon which each place can b...
File XVIII/2 COAL, MINING RIGHTS AND MONOPOLIES Expedition to the neighbourhood of Sur, 1901.
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The volume contains telegraphs, letters and reports regarding the possibility of establishing a coal trade with the coast of Oman in the district of Sur. The correspondence is mainly between the Consul and Political Agent, Muscat, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and the Unde...
File XXXIII/11-A Affairs of the Ruling Family Sultan's Abdication Oct. 1919 to Nov. 1929.
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The file contains correspondence in the form of letters and reports between British officials in Muscat, Bushire and Delhi, and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Taimur bin Faisal al-Bu Sa‘idi, regarding the latter’s visit to India and his subsequent proposal to reside there and to abdicate the Sul...
FILE NO: 16/19 VOLUME I Sinking of SS Dahpu in Muscat Harbour
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the sinking in June 1943 of SS Dahpu in Muscat harbour. Issues discussed include: Reports of the sinking The investigation into the cause of the sinking and list of casualties Organisation of a guard o...
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
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The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cut...
‘File B/9 I (30/9-II) Residency Agent, Sharjah’s News Reports’
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The file contains a series of bi-monthly news summaries about events in Trucial Oman, for the years 1935 and 1936, compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah and sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The news summaries are also referred to ...
[Un-numbered file] Export of Currency notes from BAHRAIN
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The file contains letters sent by merchants, banks and companies to the Bahrain Political Agency asking the Agency to grant them export licences for the shipment of currency notes from one place to another, from one bank to another, or from one company to a bank. The main correspondents are the A...
The volume comprises correspondence relating to the crisis in Britain’s relations with Persia in the early 1840s, in the wake of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and the siege of Herat (1838), which led to British occupation of the island of Karrak [Jazīreh-ye Khārk] in the Persian Gulf. Th...
Political Department 1854/55 Bushire Residency Persia and Persian Coast
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The file contains letters mainly received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding Persia and the Persian coast of the Gulf, from the Secretaries to the Government at Bombay Castle. There are also two documents which become part of the file at a later stage, in 1856; they were both proclama...
