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61. IOR/R/15/1/690, f 186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/690, f 186
Title:
'LEASED AREA NO. 2.'
Scope & Content:
Blueprint map showing the second of the areas which Petroleum Concessions Limited proposed leasing in Bahrain. The area shown in the map, marked with a single red line covers the Hawar group of Islands and the island of Fasht ad D'Bal and also includes the coastlines of Qatar and Bahrain. The t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:

1 map sheet

62. IOR/R/15/1/204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/204
Title:
‘File 5/161 III Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to forty-four manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence within each case follows a similar pattern. In each case the Agency (then under the charge of Major Clive Daly) sent a covering letter to the Resident, which s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1924-14 Dec 1929
Extent:

One volume (293 folios)

63. IOR/R/15/1/205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/205
Title:
‘File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to fifty-one manumission cases, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most cases are straightforward, in that the Political Resident approved the Bahrain Political Agent’s recommendation that the slave in question be given a manumission certificate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1930-1 May 1934
Extent:

1 volume (354 folios)

64. IOR/R/15/1/206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/206
Title:
‘File 5/161 V Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to manumission applications made by slaves at the Political Agency at Bahrain. A total of seventy-six individual cases for manumission are dealt with in the file. Cases generally follow a set pattern, beginning with the slave’s manumission statement, fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1934-28 May 1938
Extent:

One volume (440 folios)

65. IOR/R/15/1/240

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/240
Title:
14/7 (XVIII) and (XX) Arab Coast. Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Bushire, Bahrain, and Sharjah. Topics include: The visit of Lady Willingdon to Sharjah. A raid by Manasir tribe and murder of the Amir of Khan village. Diving on the Trucial Coast and measures to improve the living conditions of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1933-29 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

66. IOR/R/15/1/381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/381
Title:
File 22/29 Rendition of Gwadur to Kalat state
Scope & Content:
File marked 'Confidential'. The file relates to the possible transfer of jurisdiction over Gwadar (which appears throughout in the form 'Gwadur') to Kalat State. The file includes a letter from Colonel Poulton, Ziarat, to Hugh Weightman, Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Dep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1946-18 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

67. IOR/R/15/1/368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/368
Title:
File 19/218 (C 84) Bahrain Succession
Scope & Content:
The documents contained in this file relate to issues regarding succession in Bahrain after the death of Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa in 1932 and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in 1942. The file contains detailed discussions of the personality of Shaikh Hamad as well as assessments of the ch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1932-26 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 file (103 folios)

68. IOR/R/15/1/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/481
Title:
File 53/7 XI (D 71) Kuwait-Nejd Relations
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding political relations between Kuwait and Nejd. The file contains copies of correspondence between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait and Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ū...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1930-28 May 1931
Extent:
1 volume (224 folios)

69. IOR/R/15/1/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/482
Title:
File 53/7 XII (D 132) Kuwait-Nejd Relations
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Nejd [Najd], the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after 1932. Much of this correspondence consists of copies of English translations of letters between Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1931-1 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)

70. IOR/R/15/1/509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/509
Title:
File 53/39 III (D 64) Bandar Shuaikh
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding Bandar Shuwaikh, an area of coastal land in Kuwait that Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ had leased to the British Government in 1907 for the construction of a landing pier and coal shed. The correspondence discusses whether or not t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1910-4 Dec 1927
Extent:
1 volume (92 folios)