Abstract: A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 2 December 1881.The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/2) and broadly addresses the same issues, namely, how to respond toTurkish claims to sovereignty along the southern coast of the Gulf that could potentially impinge on Britain's commitments with local rulers (in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast) and their security responsibilities at sea (the suppression of piracy).The document summarises correspondence from the previous two years (1879-1881) that had dealt with the matter, beginning with an outline of the opinions of officials from the main departments and institutions involved: the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the India Office (whose opinion Warburton represents). Other correspondents include officials from the Residencies and Agencies in both the Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia, as well as the Ambassador at Constantinople.The documents cover several topics, including:The threat to Bahrain from the Beni Hajir tribe and Ottoman ambitions to extend their sovereignty to the island, including the Turkish plan to build a coal depot on the island as a pretext to further political involvement;Questions of how to police the waters under Turkish authority;How Britain should deal with Shaikh Jasim [Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thāni] of El Bidaa [Doha];Turkish claims to parts of the coast of Guttur [Qatar].The document concludes with the perceived outcomes of the discussions, including closer ties with the ruler of Bahrain, who, in December 1880, agreed not to open relations with any foreign power other than Britain.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at folio 4 and terminates at folio 18, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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 also present in parallel between folios 4-197; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the bottom right corner of each folio.Pagination: the document also has an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879.The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1) and broadly addresses the same issues, namely, what to do about Turkish claims to sovereignty along the southern coast of the Gulf that could potentially impinge on Britain's treaty commitments with local rulers and their security responsibilities at sea (the suppression of piracy), and whether to come to some kind of comprehensive arrangement with the Ottoman Government to settle the matter. To support this, the document gives a history of recent affairs in the region, making extensive use of correspondence and memoranda mostly written between 1874 and 1879. The principal correspondents are from the Government of India, the Foreign Office, the India Office, and various political and diplomatic offices in the Persian Gulf, Turkish Arabia, and Constantinople. The matters covered by the document concern events at Bahrein [Bahrain], Guttur [Qatar] - including Zobarah [Al Zubarah], Odeid [al-‘Udaid], and El Bidaa [Doha] - Lahsa [al-Hasa], and the Trucial states.The memorandum concludes by outlining the position of the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the India Office (represented by the author) on the following four matters:1. The status of Odeid;2. The need to better define areas of responsibility and jurisdiction with the Porte, and whether to hold them responsible for order along the coast under their authority;3. A revision of Britain's treaties with Bahrain, the Trucial chiefs, and Muscat;4. The arrangement of Persian Gulf business between the Bushire Residency and the Baghdad Political Agency.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 148 and terminates at folio 168, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: This is a secret printed memorandum by the Political Department of the India Office, dated 25 June 1935, concerning the Persian Gulf. The memorandum is divided in nine numbered sections, which include: 'Procedure for dealing with Persian Gulf Questions', 'British Relations with Persian Gulf States', 'The Arab Shore Air Route', 'Oil', 'Relations with Saudi Arabia', 'Koweit' [Kuwait], 'Saudi Blockade of Koweit', 'The Sheikh's Date Gardens in Iraq', and ’Koweit-Iraq Smuggling'.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 January 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2504/142185. Further enclosures to the letter can be found at: IOR/F/4/2504/142194; IOR/F/4/2504/142195; IOR/F/4/2504/142196; IOR/F/4/2504/142197; IOR/F/4/2504/142198; and IOR/F/4/2504/142200. The item is the fifteenth in a series of sixteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item contains instructions from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, dated 28 October 1852, following reports of 'suspicious vessels' around the Persian [Iranian] Coast and rumours that the 'pirate' Soheil ben Ateysh [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh, also rendered in text as Sheil ben Ateysh] has returned to Biddah [Al Bid‘] and Wakrah. Kemball instructs Robinson to warn his commanders to look out for these vessels, including how to identify them and what to do with them.Kemball sends copy of his instructions, along with some comments, to the Government of Bombay, who in turn forward them to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 350 of 1853', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 8 of 1853', 'Vol: 15', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '6' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1275, and terminates at f 1279, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the ninth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns the loss of the bugla [baghlah] ‘
Dureya Duolut’ [
Darya Dowlat], which sailed under British colours, and was wrecked of the Verdistan shoal [near Kish Island]. 180 passengers and crew were lost, along with the cargo, valued at 2.5 lacs of rupees.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Coll[ection]: 18, Collection No 8 of No 37’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 678, and terminates at f 682 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-eighth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the new rule that all vessels belonging to ports under the ‘political control’ of Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, who wish to trade in India must now carry a pass or register that has been signed by him. A list of the relevant shaikhs impacted by this is present at folio 618. The item also relates to a similar requirement that all vessels sailing under the flag of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat must have a pass or register countersigned by Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat.The issue is raised that affected vessels may have already departed for the season without the necessary paperwork. Solutions to this problem are discussed by the following: Hennell; Henry Young, Collector of Customs at Bombay [Mumbai]; and the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 58’, ‘Collection No. 14 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 1 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 18 June No. 82 of 1848.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 614, and terminates at f 626, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1854, and found at IOR/F/4/2575/152543. It is the sixth in a series of thirteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item relates to discussions about whether Arab or Persian [Iranian] vessels trading in Indian ports should be required to produce certification documents to avoid paying double customs duties. The advantages and disadvantages of enforcing such measures are debated. The discussion also includes references to the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1820), a Government Gazette notification from 9 January 1839, and Act VI of 1848 passed by the Government of India.Correspondents include: Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Richard Spooner, Acting Collector of Customs, Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; John George Taylor, British Agent at Bussorah [Basra]; and the Government of Bombay.Taylor's correspondence includes a report on the types of documents currently used at Bussorah and Kowait [Kuwait] with respect to external trade.The item also contains example documents at folio 293 recto and folio 306.Except from an extract of the Government Gazette from 9 January 1839 (folio 294 verso), the rest of the item dates from 1853-54.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'P.C. [Previous Communication] 8964', Draft Number '908 [18]54', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 32 of 1854', 'Vol: 6', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '6' but this has been crossed out and replaced with '1'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 288, and terminates at f 308, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The map is appended to a
Memorandum on Persian Railways(f 184), and shows the Persian Gulf and portions of adjacent countries
,indicating the routes of railway lines and telegraphs, hydrology, coastal headlands, relief with spot heights, district names, major towns and cities, international boundaries and zones defined by the Anglo-Russian Convention of 31 August 1907. The map also provides a key to symbols used and short notes on territorial sovereignty.The sheet was published in the series, 'Topographical Section, General Staff, No. 2385.', by the 'War Office, June 1908.'Physical description: Materials: Printed in colour on paperDimensions: 713 x 568mm, on sheet 775 x 660mm
Abstract: Map of the Persian Gulf region, to accompany
Bagdad Railway No. 1 (1911). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty, May 1911(London, His Majesty's Stationery Office). The publication appears on folios 215-252.The map was produced by the Topographical Section of the General Staff, War Office.Physical description: Material: printed on paper.Dimensions: 720 x 560mm, on sheet 850 x 620mm.
Abstract: Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Report, 1898.There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
Abstract: The file contains a printed report published by the 'Admiralty, Intelligence Department (No. 694). September 1903.', providing a compilation of available information of naval, military and political value about various locations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Places described include Muscat, Mussandam Promontory, Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab, Pirate Coast [Arabian Coast], Bahrain, Kuwait, Fao [Al Fāw], Basra, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Bushire, Lingah and Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Pilot, 1898. The report also includes an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf generally' given in the House of Lords, 5 May 1903; and advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance and under-water defences.Two hand-stamps appear on the front cover and on folio 3, which read, 'War Office Library 27 Nov 1903', and, 'Mobilization and Intelligence Dept. 27 Nov 1903'.The volume contains seven maps.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence 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.Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is present in parallel throughout.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, memoranda, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. It is the twelfth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101199, IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101204, IOR/F/4/2131/101205, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101208, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212 and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).The item concerns the voyage of HMS
Foxand HM sloop
Pilotto the Persian Gulf, and Blackwood’s request for an interpreter to accompany them.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171, Collection No 1 of No 126.’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 740, and terminates at f 752, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.