Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'

Title:

Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'

Date:

1941/1949

Description:

Abstract: The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar.The papers include: reports by the Political Agent, Bahrain on visits to Qatar, 1941 and 1943 (including references to internal politics and slavery); the situation in Zubara, 1944; reports of attacks on Indian and Pakistani nationals in Qatar, 1949; the abdication of Shaikh Abdullah [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], and accession of Shaikh Ali [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī], 1949; and general matters, 1949.There are no papers dated 1945-48. The file also includes the text of a treaty, dated 3 November 1916, between HM Government and the Ruler of Qatar (folios 21-22).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is at folio 23.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 35; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-33; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Political intelligence
Kings and rulers--Succession
Emir of Qatar

Geographic region:

Qatar

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000216_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000216_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3963
IOR/L/PS/12/3963

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