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 November 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fortieth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to correspondence from Justin Sheel [Sheil], HM Minister at the Court of Tehran, to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the supposed marriage between His Highness the Imam of Muscat and a granddaughter of Futteh Allee Shah, late King of Persia [Fatḥ ‘Alī Shāh, late Shāh of Iran]. Hennell forwards the correspondence to the Government of Bombay, who in turn forward it on in a letter to the Government of India (which also briefly mentions the case of Ahmed Dad Kurreem [Aḥmad bin Dād Karīm]).The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 139, Vol: 40.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 463, and terminates at f 466, 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, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat.The item concerns the marriage of the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], to a granddaughter of Fatteh Ali Shah, late King of Persia [Fath-Ali Shah Qājār, late Shah of Iran].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 689/48, Collection No 1 of No 74, Coll[ection]: 26’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 331, and terminates at f 334 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 file consists of:papers concerning the arrangements for a wedding at Bahrain between two British subjects, including correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy George Loch, Political Agent, Bahrain and Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, October - November 1933;correspondence concerning the powers of the Political Agent Bahrain to perform marriages in Bahrain under the provisions of the Indian Christian Marriage Act of 1872, March - April 1936.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 15 on the last folio before the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 1, 1 A.
Abstract: The file relates to a question over the authority of the Acting Political Agent, Bahrain to act as Registrar of Marriages, in the light of the solemnisation of a marriage by Captain John Baron Howes in August 1940. The file includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Government of India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 7 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 5, 5A.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 July 1874, forwarding for information a copy of a letter from HM Consul-General, Baghdad, to the address of HM Chargé d’Affaires, Constantinople [Instanbul], regarding the objections raised at Baghdad to the marriage of a British-Indian subject with a woman who is the daughter of a native of Baghdad.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 88, and terminates at f 92, 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 sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 88a and f 91a.