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1. IOR/R/15/1/705-708

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/705-708
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: additional subject files
Scope & Content:
These additional subject files are on four separate and unrelated topics: (financial matters) a volume of completed statements of monthly expenditure incurred by the Khorramshar Office under the Annual Office Allowance and other contract grants, including the Annual Launch Allowance, for 1940-4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1923-1947
Extent:
4 files and volumes (795 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/707

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/707
Title:
File 79/44 I (S 80) War Emergency Legislation
Scope & Content:
The file deals with the issue of the supplementary judicial powers that would be required by the British administration in the Persian Gulf in the event of war, and includes the following papers: papers dated October 1937 - July 1938 concerning the question of war emergency legislation in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1937-31 May 1939
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/705

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/705
Title:
File 60/13 VI Statements of Expenditure under Office Allowance and Other Contract Grants
Scope & Content:
The volume contains completed statements of monthly expenditure incurred by the Khorramshar Office under the Annual Office Allowance and other contract grants, including the Annual Launch Allowance, for April 1940 - July 1945 inclusive, with covering letters from the Secretary to the Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1940-20 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/708

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/708
Title:
File 86/66 Status of Kuwait Bay and Extent of Territorial Waters in Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the question of whether Kuwait Bay (also referrred to in the papers as Koweit Bay) was an historic bay (or territorial inlet) [an area of water over which a coastal state has asserted soverignty over a long period of time, and with the acquiescence of other nations], and the pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1946-21 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/706
Title:
File 61/8 Bin Saud's Relations with Trucial Chiefs
Scope & Content:
The file concerns relations between Ibn Sa'ud (also referred to in the papers as Ibn Saud, Bin Saud, and Bin Sa'ud) [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)] and the Rulers of the Trucial States. The papers include reports in Arabic with separate English translations f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1923-5 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/706, f 57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/706, f 57
Title:
‘TRIBAL MAP OF SHUMAILIYAH’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Shows the location of tribes that dwelled in the Trucial States area with names reported. Names of tribes under authority of the Muscat state are double underlined in red.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927
Extent:

1 map

7. IOR/R/15/1/708, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/708, f 7
Title:
Map of Kuwait Bay
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: The Northern portion of map only, lacking publisher’s imprint. Depths shown by soundings. Notations to ensure efficient and safe navigation of Kuwait bay cover the face of the map. Additions in black, red and blue ink including 'Formal drawing of Kuwait Bay' inserted in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 map

8. IOR/R/15/1/706, f 47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/706, f 47
Title:
Sketch map of Trucial Coast and southern part of Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Shows the location of tribes that dwelled in the Trucial States area with names given and boundaries indicated by blue lines. Topographical information based on ‘Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf’ by John Gordon Lorimer published in 1908. The map, together with ‘Note on the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 map