IOR/R/15/1/183-192

Subject compilations of secret and general correspondence. There were a number of holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf during the period in question, but the following Residents: Captain James Felix Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, and Major Adelbert Cecil Talbot, feature most prominently in the records. Correspondents include officials of the India Office, Foreign Office, and the Government of India; officials of the Government of Persia (including correspondence in Persian and Arabic with English translations); Persian Gulf rulers (including correspondence in Arabic with English translations); British/Residency Agents, and other British officials in the Persian Gulf and Middle East; and the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf Division.

The material falls under the following main heads:

• Bahrain affairs, 1862-68 (IOR/R/15/1/183);
• Persian interference in Bahrain affairs, 1869-87 (IOR/R/15/1/184);
• agreement (1879) between the British and the rulers of the Trucial Coast concerning runaway sailors and divers (IOR/R/15/1/185);
• biographical information on 'noteworthy persons' within the political jurisdiction of the Political Residency, collected by officials at Muscat, Makran Coast, and Gwadar (IOR/R/15/1/186);
• Qatar and Bahrain affairs, 1881-86 (IOR/R/15/1/187);
• British concerns over perceived attempts by the Persian Government to challenge their power in the Persian Gulf, 1887-94 (IOR/R/15/1/188);
• hostilities between Qatar and Abu Dhabi, 1888-90 (IOR/R/15/1/189);
• papers concerning a threatened invasion of Oman by Ibn Rashid [Muḥammad bin ‘Abdullah Āl Rashīd], Amir of Najd, 1888-89 (IOR/R/15/1/190);
• papers concerning the Exclusive Treaty (1892) between the Sheikhs of the Trucial Coast and the Sheikh of Bahrain (IOR/R/15/1/191);
• information on the history, etymology, political background, people, rulers, and principal families of Bahrain; and correspondence relating to plans for the excavation of the tumuli at Bahrain (IOR/R/15/1/192).