Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, resolutions and minutes, cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 15 January 1856. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2641/169196, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the eleventh in a series of twelve items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item contains a letter to the Government of Bombay from Meerza Mahomed Sadick [Mīrzā Muḥammad Ṣādiq], Acting Consul of Persia [Iran], forwarding a request from Persian merchants to Lord Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council, Bombay. The merchants request that, to improve private travel between Bombay [Mumbai] and the Gulf on Company vessels, Government appoint a single officer to receive travel applications and also introduce an option for second class travel.The matter is referred to Rear-Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, who responds referring to sections of the Naval Pay and Audit Code (extracts of which are included).The Government of Bombay's response to Leeke and to Meerza Mahomed Sadick are also included in the item.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '633 [18]56', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 1 of 1856.', 'Vol: 11', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '5' 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 593, and terminates at f 601, 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 contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Passport Officer, Bahrain; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence contains reports of three instances where Arab and Indian travellers used an illegal travel permit, certificate of identity or passport to travel to Bahrain and other countries in 1929, 1930 and 1949.The file also includes: an English translation of a travel permit in Arabic issued to a Muscat subject by Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], Emir of the Beni Bu Ali [Banū Bū ‘Alī] tribe, Jaalan [Ja‘alan], Oman in 1929; a Hejaz and Nejd [Najd] Kingdom passport in Arabic issued to a British Indian subject travelling to Bahrain in 1949.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1A-1C and 2-9 in pencil in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1A) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 8).
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia [Iran], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 Rajab 1242 [17 February 1827]. Noskoff reports his arrival at Erivan [Yerevan] and indicates the commencement of his journey to the frontier between Russia and Persia. He also reports the receipt of a letter from the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām] concerning glassware belonging to the Russian envoy to Persia, Prince Minchakoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], and indicates that he has requested that the glassware be kept for safe keeping by the Cayim Mukam until he has been given instructions by Prince Minchakoff (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/187).This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in No. 40, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Persian envoy, Mirza Mohomed Alli [Muḥammad ʿAlī Shīrāzī], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 Rujjub [Rajab] 1242 [17 February 1827]. In the letter Mirza Mohomed Alli announces the arrival of himself and the Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia, Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], at Erivan [Yerevan], and their kind reception by the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan]. He also reports the commencement of his journey across the Russo-Persian frontier to Tiflis [Tbilisi], and indicates that the Sirdar of Erivan has dispatched a group of Russian prisoners, who had been travelling with Mirza Mohomed Alli, to Tiflis, accompanied by one of his own servants.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in No. 40, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent.Publication details: Reading: Garnet, c 1994.Edition: new edition.Notes: facsimile edition of edition published London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900.Physical Description: initial roman numeral paginations i-xi, i-x; 24 leaves of plates, 5 folded leaves of maps; illustrations, 6 maps 1 portrait.Physical description: Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm
Abstract: By Montagu Gilbert Gerard, Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Central India Horse, published in Calcutta by the Quarter Master General's Department.The notes consist of diary entries for the period 15 November 1881 to 16 April 1882, documenting each stage of Captain Gerard's journey through Iraq and Persia. Each entry contains information about the towns and villages he visited, including longitude and latitude co-ordinates, geographical information about the landscape, physical descriptions of the places, political information about the ruler of both the place and its surrounding area and their allegiences, and travel advice for others intending to journey through the Kurdistan region. Also discussed in the entries are customs and quarantine dues paid en-route and bazaars visited, including the type of goods available and the countries those goods were from.The principle places travelled through include Zobeir [Az-Zubayr], Busreh [Basra], Baghdad, Hillah [Al-Ḥillah], Kifri, Kerkuk [Kirkūk], Mosul [Al-Mawṣil], Miandab [Mīāndoāb], Tabriz, Tasuj [Tasūj], Urmiah [Urmia], Bokan [Bukan], Sakuz [Saqqez], Banah [Baneh], Pengwen [Penjwen], Sulimania [Sulaymaniyah], Murivan [Marivan], Kirmanshah [Kermanshah], Kasr-i-Shirin [Qasr-e-Shirin], Khanikin [Khanaqin] and Bakuba [Baqubah].Physical description: Foliation: The file has been foliated from cover to cover using a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of the recto of each folio.
Abstract: The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras, during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885.The volume contains a map on folio 4 showing the route of Rees’s journey. At the end of the volume is an itinerary of the journey with details of distances and directions.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 25; 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 printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-23.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence mainly from the early 1940s concerning the travels abroad of Shaikh Muhammad bin Isa al Khalifah, a member of the ruling family of Bahrain. The correspondence also discusses allegations that he held anti-British attitudes.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 69; 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 ff 2-64; these numbers pencil and ink, but are not circled.
Abstract: This file contains papers with the diary entries of the Political Agent in Muscat spaced at two weeks apart. They contain information on shipping, local affairs, British interests, and other powers' interests in Muscat and Oman; travels of the Sultan and his meetings with dignitaries, visitors and important political and tribal leaders from within Oman and especially from what is now the United Arab Emirates.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 213; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Suleiman al Baruni and his relatives.The discussion in the file concerns:The nationality of al-Baruni who was from Libya and implications for his admission to OmanHis membership of the Ibadhi sect and his claim that he had influence with tribes inland from TripoliArrangements for travel of members of his family.The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and officials of the Government of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 77; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence, timetables and other papers relating to the activities of the shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company, in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East region. Correspondence and papers relating to other transport operators are also included in the file: Imperial Airways (ff 18-23); Nairn Transport Company (f 13).Papers issued under a number of different company names or letterheads are stamped ‘Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd.’ These include: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (dissolved in 1937 and replaced by Gray, Mackenzie & Company); Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; and the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISNC).Amongst the routine correspondence (accounts, travel and transport arrangements, changes in office personnel), the file also includes:details, including timetables, of steamer services operated in the Persian Gulf and wider region by Gray, Mackenzie & Company, BISNC, Peninsular and Oriental (P&O);a photographic postcard of the BISNC vessel
Dwarka(f 57);a brochure for the new BISNC vessels
Dumraand
Dwarka(f 73), with photographs of the vessel’s first- and second-class facilities;baggage labels, issued in May 1948 by BISNC to employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (f 77-78).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 128; 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 3-61; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Telegrams and other papers reporting the movements and anticipated movements (by sea and by air) of officials into and out of Bahrain, the Trucial Coast, and the wider Persian Gulf region. The officials referred to include British Political Agents and Officers, and the following representatives of the Government of Bahrain: the Adviser to Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the Director of Education (F J Wakelin), and the State Medical Officer (Richard Henry Barter Snow).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 27; 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 2-23; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.