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File 8/65 V MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RENEWAL OF COMMERCIAL TREATY
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This file relates to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and Muscat. The original treaty of 1891 was given a term of twelve years, which was extended at regular intervals afterwards, initially for several years at a time and later on an annual basis. In 1939 a replacement treaty was signed bet...
Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/260), this file relates to the termination and proposed replacement of the 1939 Commercial Treaty between Britain and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. Most of the correspondence concerns the drafting of a new treaty between the two parties (even...
File 8/78 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RENDITION OF GWADUR TO KALAT.
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This file concerns British policy regarding the Muscat territory of Gwadur [Gwadar, Pakistan; it is written as Gwadar in some of the correspondence]. The correspondence includes the following: Discussion in 1913-1914 as to whether the Government of India should consider the cession (the correspo...
File 19/163 I (C 33) Bin Saud's relations with Shaikh of Bahrain. Nejdi Agent's activities in Bahrain
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This file contains documents regarding relations between the British, Bin Saud and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa between 1923 and 1931. The documents discuss the Persian-Nejdi violence that occurred in Bahrain in 1923, the activities and expulsion of Bin Saud's agent in Bahrain (Abdullah Al ...
File 26/157 (F 66) Arabistan and Luristan: Representation in, changes resulting from the War
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, memoranda and reports pertaining to British governmental representation in Arabistan [Khūzestān]. The correspondents include the Political Resident at Bushire, the British Minister at Tehran, the High Commissioner at Baghdad, the British Consul at Mohammer...
'File No: 1.b/2. Major Head:- Administration SubHead:- General. Subject:- Finances of the Bahrain State.'
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The file contains papers concerning the finances of the Bahrain State including correspondence between Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident Persian Gulf; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; and Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa [Sheikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler o...
‘File 28/1 S Evacuation of personnel and families of BAPCO and CASOC employees and others’
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The file comprises correspondence, notices and lists relating to the numbers of, and plans for the evacuation of, British, British-Indian, American and other (chiefly Goans, described as Portuguese-Indian) subjects, particularly those employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Califor...
‘File 28/6 War. Arrangements for the Control of Norwegian, Danish and other neutral ships, etc.’
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The file comprises communications and correspondence relating to the restrictions and orders imposed by the British Government on foreign vessels, and in particular those regarded as neutral or ‘enemy’ during wartime. The papers chiefly relate to Danish and Norwegian vessels, prompted by the Ger...
‘File 28/10-(c) Anti-British Activities of Abdullah bin Faris, Secretary of the Shaikh of Sharjah’
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The file contains correspondence and other papers related to anti-British and pro-German propaganda being disseminated at Sharjah, and specifically that being allegedly spread by the Ruler of Sharjah’s Secretary, Abdullah bin Faris. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Age...
File 37/2 (12/9 A) Duke of Gloucester's visit and presentation of Italian guns to Shaikh of Bahrain
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The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Adviser to the Government at Bahrain regarding Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester's visit to Sharjah and Bahrain. The file contains lists of invitees to formal parties in hon...
