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IOR/R/15/5/18

Record Id:

040-000242024

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-000241998

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0003ad

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100041416094.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/R/15/5/18

Title:

File VIII/3. Pedigree, Private affairs, notes, etc on the As-Subah family.

Scope & Content:

The file contains correspondence in the form of letters, notes, pedigrees, news extracts and telegrams. The correspondence is mainly related to the ruling family in Kuwait. Reports were sent between the Political Agency, Kuwait and the Political Residency, Bushire regarding the following: political and social news in Kuwait; events concerning the al-Subah family (death, marriage or illness); news of Shaikh Mubarak’s coalition with Shaikh Khaz‘al against a number of tribes in the region; and reports on incidents taking place at Mohammerah, as well as news of the status of a number of Islands, such as Warba, which were claimed by the Shaikh of Kuwait.The file contains extracts from the Bahrain and Kuwait News, Residency reports about Shaikh Mubarak’s dispute with his pearl towashes (pearlers or pearl merchants), and an article (folios 219-224) on Shaikh Ahmad’s visit to London in 1919. It also contains a number of pedigrees of the al-Subah family.

The file also includes correspondence related to the number of gun salutes due to chiefs in the Persian Gulf.

The main correspondence is between the Political Agency, Kuwait, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, and the British Consul at Mohammerah.

Due to the random arrangement of the papers in the file, the earliest paper (dated Nov 1904) is found at f 144, and the latest (dated Oct 1922) is found at f 135.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000241998
037-000241999
038-000242022
040-000242024

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/15/5 : Political Agency, Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/1-108 : Kuwait Agency, First Series subject files
IOR/R/15/5/17-19 : File 8 Al Sabah Family

IOR/R/15/5/18 : File VIII/3. Pedigree, Private affairs, notes, etc on the As-Subah family.

Contains:

IOR/R/15/5/18, f 144 : Pedigree of As-Subah family
IOR/R/15/5/18, f 148 : Pedigree of the Subah Family.

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Hierarchy:

032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0001]/037-000241999[0007]/038-000242022[0002]/040-000242024

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (228 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0003ad

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Languages:

Arabic
English
French

Scripts:

Arabic
Latin

Start Date:

1904

End Date:

1922

Date Range:

Nov 1904-21 Oct 1922

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 230; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-227; these numbers are also written in pencil but are not circled.

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