File 11/20 Gwadur Political Affairs (Defilement of Aga Khani Graveyard)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers and correspondence relating to communal disturbances that took place in Gwadur Gwadar between members of the Khoja/Aga Khani Ismaili community, who were British subjects, and the Baluchi community, who were subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Specifically, much...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in Muscat territory. The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues: Petroleum Concession Limited's exploration in Trucial hinterland and Muscat territory The negotiations...
The file comprises two items of correspondence concerning the termination of the concession held by Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited for oil exploration in Dhofar. The correspondence is between Basil Henry le Riolet Lermitte and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl B...
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to prospecting for coal and other minerals in Dhofar. Issues discussed include terms of a concession, technical mining issues and assessments of commercial viability of mining the coal seams and ore. The f...
The volume is a correspondence file concerning affairs in Qatar, which came under the administration of the Political Agency, Bahrain. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; the India Office; the War Of...
The file contains correspondence between Kuwait Oil Company, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Agent at Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the discovery of oil in Kuwait; because of the scarcity of oil found in the well at Bahra it was ...
The file contains correspondence, mostly in English and Arabic, between the Ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī (from August 1949 Shaikh ‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī); the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and the Polit...
The file contains correspondence related to the Bahrain censuses of 1941 and 1950. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave). In...
Papers relating to twenty Somalis who arrived in Bahrain from Qatar in February 1949, claiming to be survivors of a shipwrecking off the coast of Muscat. The papers include: an account by the survivors of their shipwrecking and journey to Bahrain (f 5, f 9); correspondence exchanged between the ...
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials stood as mediators between the Iraqi Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait to try and solve the smuggling issue. They discussed possible ways to persuade the Shaikh of Kuwait to agree to a friendly arrangement f...
