Coll 30/171 'Koweit: Iranian population of Koweit. Iraqi interest.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 30/171 'Koweit: Iranian population of Koweit. Iraqi interest.'
- Date:
- 1938/1939
- Description:
- Abstract: The file concerns a request by the Government of Iraq to establish the precise numbers of the Shiah population in Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit). This information is given in a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle) to the India Office on folios 52-56.The papers show that there was a difference of opinion between Fowle and the British Ambassador at Bagdad [Baghdad] (Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson) over whether the Government of Iran was behind the request: Fowle thought they were, Peterson disagreed. The Political Resident was also not in favour of allowing the Iraqi Government to imagine that they were in a special position to interest themselves in the affairs of Kuwait (folio 43). The file also contains correspondence from the Foreign Office.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 57; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Shīʻah
- Geographic region:
- Kuwait
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0001de_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0001de_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3908
IOR/L/PS/12/3908