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6591. IOR/R/15/1/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/77
Title:
Book 105: Letters inwards 1838
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a selection of correspondence sent from the Political Department of the Bombay Government to the Resident in the Persian Gulf during 1838; Samuel Hennell took up the position of Resident during that year. The subject matter covered includes the kidnapping of slaves from the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1838-5 Dec 1838
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (16 folios)

6592. IOR/R/15/1/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/102
Title:
'Book 142 1844' letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, between January and June 1844. The letters contain information, guidance and instructions from the Governor in Coun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1843-27 Jun 1844
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

6593. IOR/R/15/1/175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/175
Title:
Wrecks, Maritime outrages
Scope & Content:
This volume is concerned with 'outrages' committed by the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bokha [Barka’, Oman] on the people of Shargah [Sharjah] whose boat foundered off his town. It is also concerned with fines exacted and the recovery of payments from various Shaikhs incurred for acts of piracy, the coerc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1859-10 May 1860
Extent:
1 volume, 17 items (32 folios)

6594. IOR/R/15/1/216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/216
Title:
‘File 5/190 II Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to thirty-seven manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Muscat. During the period covered by the file, seven different individuals held the post of Political Agent at Muscat. Most of the cases are straightforward affairs, in which the Muscat ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1921-11 May 1929
Extent:

1 volume (523 folios)

6595. IOR/R/15/1/226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/226
Title:
File 5/193 II (B 38) Slavery in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The majority of the correspondence in the volume relates to Sir George Maxwell's report on slavery in Arabia, submitted to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery in around 1936. The file should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/227, which contains a continuation of c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1930-18 Sep 1936
Extent:

1 volume (233 folios)

6596. IOR/R/15/1/228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/228
Title:
File 5/193 IV (B 55) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence relating to slavery and the slave trade. The first portion of the volume consists of correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Political Agent Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Senior Naval Office...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1938-18 Jul 1939
Extent:

1 volume (276 folios)

6597. IOR/R/15/1/257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/257
Title:
14/115 V (B 8) ABU MUSA OXIDE QUESTION
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the mining of red oxide on Abu Musa island. Includes the memorandum of the Foreign Office on the matter and the report of Captain Moore. Also discussed are the 'intrigues' of Muhammad Abdullah of Lingah and the Strick company's activities in taking possession of 500 to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1908-17 Feb 1910
Extent:
1 volume (322 folios)

6598. IOR/R/15/1/263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/263
Title:
14/115 X, B 31, Abu Musa Oxide
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the possibility of a Commander Bayldon acquiring a concession to develop red oxide resources on Abu Musa island. The file contains correspondence from 1934 to 1935 between the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Political Agent, Bahrain; Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1934-5 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 volume (212 folios)

6599. IOR/R/15/1/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/290
Title:
File 14/242 (B Series 8/4) SHAIKH OF FUJAIRAH
Scope & Content:
This brief file consists of four letters concerning the issues arising if a visa were to be issued on Muscat passport to the Shaikh of Fujaira. The correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Political Agent, Muscat (Tom Hickinbotham and Ralph Ponsonby Watts) and Saiyid Said b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1939-5 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

6600. IOR/R/15/1/303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/303
Title:
File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the composition, drafting and publication of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1925 (His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1925). The volume includes papers relating to initial objections and subsequent agreement on the part of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1919-20 Dec 1928
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

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