This file contains a list of individuals resident in Gwadur alleged by the British authorities to be 'bad characters and disturbers of the peace'. The list is divided into two sections, 'Hindus' and 'Aga Khanis' [Isma'ilis], and contains entries for a total of twelve individuals.
This volume contains correspondence and documents regarding the creation and management of a garden attached to the Political Agency in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency in Muscat and various horticultural suppliers and specialists in...
Photograph of Pradhan Singh, State Engineer, with Ibrahim Muhammad, Naqib of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's Retinue, at the Jirziz spring head, Dhofar. This photograph is part of a series of photographs that appear at the end of a preliminary report on the land resources of Dhofar, produced by...
Plan sketching the suggested site for the Squadron Camp at the West end of the Ras El-Hadd (Ras Al Hadd) Peninsula at the entrance to Khor Hajar, opposite the unloading bay. The site is one of the facilities at Ras Al Hadd landing ground at Salalah, Oman. The plan is prepared by G S Cooper, Civ...
[Un-numbered file] Instructions regarding flying of flags.
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The file contains a request for clarification from the British Agent, Gwadur [Gwadar] on when it was permissible to fly the flag at the British Agency (answer: when the Political Agent, or the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf landed there), 1945-46; and correspondence between the Political...
File 6/34 Foreign Interests: American Interests in the Persian Gulf
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This file contains correspondence concerning visits made to the Gulf by American officials. The majority of the correspondence in the file relates to a visit to Muscat made by the US Army Survey Mission in 1945.
File 9/21 Persian navy: activities and visits to Arab ports
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The file contains correspondence from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Political Agent, Muscat. The papers warn of possible visits by Iranian sloops and give reference to previous correspondence (see IOR/R/15/6/319) on what action to take if such visits occur.
The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports related to arms trafficking in certain areas of the Trucial Coast, mainly Muscat, Sur, Sohar, Dubai, Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, and the Batinah coastal towns. The Baluch in Oman were the main arm dealers smuggling arms from Dubai to Persia. This was...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Muscat and the Political Resident at Bahrain and Kuwait regarding the arrival of American officials in Muscat and the possibility of opening an air aerodrome there.
Following on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/287), this file relates to the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's former Administrator at Gwadur [Gwadar], Abdur Rahman Qureshi, who was on deputation from Baluchistan from 1946 to 1949. The file concerns outstanding payments owed to Abdur Rahman, sp...