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IOR/R/15/2/605-615
- Record Id:
- 038-000228890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000061.0x0000b4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/605-615
- Title:
- File 21 Qatar
- Scope & Content:
- The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, over their competing claims to sovereignty of Zubarah; trade and imports into Qatar; the proposed taxation of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) employees by the Ruler of Qatar; construction of a hospital in Doha; questions of succession, in response to the death of the Qatari heir, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī in 1948; the detention of a slave from Muscat in Qatar in 1948; tensions between Muslim and Sikh PCL employees in the wake of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947; embezzlement of Qatar customs money.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000228401
038-000228890 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/139-916 : Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/605-615 : File 21 Qatar - Contains:
- IOR/R/15/2/605 : ‘File 21/1 I Zubarah’
IOR/R/15/2/606 : 21/2 TAXES IN QATAR
IOR/R/15/2/607 : ‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
IOR/R/15/2/608 : 21/5 QATAR HOSPITAL
IOR/R/15/2/609 : QATAR SUCCESSION
IOR/R/15/2/610 : ‘21/8 PRESENTATION OF GIFTS FOR SALEH AL MANAH REPRESENTATIVE OF SHAIKH OF QATAR’
IOR/R/15/2/611 : IMPORT INTO QATAR OF A STATUETTE OF VIRGIN MARY
IOR/R/15/2/612 : Effects of Zubara [al-Zubārah] dispute on Imports into Qatar from Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/613 : ‘File 21/11 Communal tension in Qatar: appointment of special constables for Qatar’
IOR/R/15/2/614 : ‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
IOR/R/15/2/615 : ‘File 21/22 Customs’
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- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0003]/037-000228401[0023]/038-000228890
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- SubSubSeries
- Extent:
- 11 files and volumes (478 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1940-1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Arrangement:
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The Qatar subject files are arranged by file number. As an example, in the reference 21/5, 21 represents the subject reference (Qatar), and 5 the file number. Not all subject files have survived, and the gaps in file numbers indicate likely gaps in the series.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)