IOR/R/15/5/43

The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Ruler of Kuwait, Mubarak us Subah (Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ); his successor Shaikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department; the Secretary to the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India; the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad; John Gordon Lorimer, Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE), at the Foreign Office in Simla; the British Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Baghdad; and the Political Agency in Kuwait; regarding recommendations for titles and honours to be granted to various subjects.

The volume also contains speeches and programmes for the investitures; in detail:

• request by J G Lorimer for sanads (ordinances) to be conferred to the Persian Gulf Gazetteer workers in recognition of their services;
• recommendations for the Assistant Surgeon in Kuwait, Daudur Rahman, sent by the Ruler of Kuwait;
• grant of Knight Commander to the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) to the Ruler of Kuwait,
• investiture of Commander of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) to Shaikh Salim (Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Ruler of Kuwait from 1917); and of CIE to his successor from 1921, Shaikh Ahmad;
• title of Khan Sahib conferred on Mullah Abdullah bin Abdul Ilahi, Arabic Munshi at the Political Agency in Kuwait and badge of Khan Bahadur granted to Sahib Mulla bin Muhammad, Secretary to the Sheikh of Kuwait;
• title of Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) to the Sheikh of Mohammerah, Sir Khazal Khan (Khaz'al bin Jabir bin Merdaw al-Ka'bi), KCIE.

The volume contains documents in Arabic with English translation, a speech by H E the Naval Commander in Chief, and acceptance speeches from the Rulers of Kuwait.