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6811. IOR/R/15/1/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/266
Title:
14/138 Arab Coast: Hostilities Between the Chiefs of Abu Dhabi and Um al Kowein over the affairs of the Bani Katb tribe. April 1904 to May 1916
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discussing the role of Sheikh Zaid bin Khalifah, Sheikh of Abu Dhabi on the Trucial Coast and the battles and disputes between the Trucial Shaikhs. Also discussed is the agreement, arranged by the Political Resident Persian Gulf which secured the release of the Shaikh of Umm al-Qa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1904-14 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 volume (140 folios)

6812. IOR/R/15/1/400

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/400
Title:
File 35/84 I A. 5. Muscat Treaty of 1891; lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station
Scope & Content:
Correspondence about the lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station. Includes, in English and Arabic, the 'lawful and honourable Bond' of 28th March 1891 whereby Sayyid Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, pledged never to cede, sell or mortgage an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1891-30 Jan 1899
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

6813. IOR/R/15/1/625, f 18C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/625, f 18C
Title:
Sketch map showing Oman and Trucial States
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Various routes shown in colour with a key of reference provided below map. Copied from a ‘Sketch map to illustrate the paper on “Some Excursions in Oman” by Major General Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G.’ published in the Geographical Journal in Septemb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 map sheet

6814. IOR/R/15/1/384-388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/384-388
Title:
File 26: Arabistan and Luristan
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain correspondence, reports, maps, and memoranda relating to British interests in the Arabistan [Khūzestān] and Luristan [Lorestān] provinces of south west Persia following their political and commercial penetration of the region in the late nineteenth-century. The documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1905-1946
Extent:

5 volumes (1073 folios)

6815. IOR/R/15/1/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/135
Title:
`Political Diary of the Residency in the Persian Gulf – Native Departments’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a political diary recording ‘native’ correspondence sent and received by the Residency, visits made by the Resident, visitors received at the Residency, and other occurrences of note. All of the correspondence detailed in the volume was sent to or received from Arab and Persian inh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1850-31 Oct 1852
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

6816. IOR/R/15/1/284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/284
Title:
B Series. POLITICAL 8/1 (A Series 14/221) Correspondence Regarding the Shaikh of Dibba
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Shaikh of Dibba. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat; Khan Sahib Sayid Abdur Razzak, Residency Agent, Sharjah; Shaikh Rashid bin Ahmad, Chie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1933-24 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

6817. IOR/R/15/1/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/725
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd [Najd] Affairs, 1804-1904
Scope & Content:
The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904 (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume contains an historical overview of Nejd [Najd], 1804-94, with particular reference to the history of the Wahabis [Wahhabis].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

6818. IOR/R/15/1/203

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/203
Title:
‘File 5/194 I,195 I, 179 III, 169 II, 104 IV Kidnapping of individuals; manumission of slaves at Kuwait and Bushire; miscellaneous slavery cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains miscellaneous slave trade correspondence, distilled from a number of original subject files, covering a disparate range of slavery related from a four-decade period. The contents of the original subject file 5/194 I relate to an incident in 1924 in which twenty-five members o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Jan 1906-24 Jul 1942
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

6819. IOR/R/15/1/249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/249
Title:
14/101 I Arab Coast. Difference between the Chiefs of Shargah and Debai over the Headman of Fujeira
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the attitude of the Shaikh of Fujairah. The Political Agent, Muscat went to Fujairah in HMS Redbreast and found that the Shaikh was loathe to recognize that he was tributary to Sharjah. Correspondence discusses the brokering of an agreement by the Political Resident an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1902-8 Aug 1904
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

6820. IOR/R/15/1/613, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/613, f 7
Title:
‘PLAN SHOWING SHATT EL ARAB FROM KURNA TO BASRA, AND RESPECTIVE POSITIONS APPROXIMATELY OF LYNCH DOCK AT MAGIL, THE BAGDAD RAILWAY MATERIAL DEPÔT, AND THE TOWN OF BASRA’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Produced in Basra, Sept. 1912 and signed ‘Sd. F.E. Crow H. Ms. Consul’. Rough plan of area north of Basra with location of German Depot and British Consulate shown. In the bottom left-hand corner printed: ‘S.D.O. No. 606. Dec. 1912’.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 map

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