Author
pearling dhows
Publication Date
1 Sep 1912-10 Jun 1929 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
246
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/5/46
Record ID
vdc_100000000831.0x0003c9
Library Location
British Library:
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
Records and
Private Papers
Documents collected in a private capacity.
Date
1 Sep 1912-10 Jun 1929 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file contains correspondence, telegrams, statements and notes regarding incidents of arms and ammunition smuggling incidents in Kuwait.
The file includes:
accounts from the Commander of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Division regarding rifles carried by pearling dhows;
request for all vessels leaving the port of Kuwait to be provided with a permission to carry arms, countersigned by the local rulers and the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
(several copies of the form in Arabic on folios 15-20);
correspondence on weapons owned by Ibn Saud and confiscated near Sharjah;
smuggling of American rifles in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
;
arrest and deportation of an arms smuggler from Muscat;
the establishment of a role of Informer at Kuwait, to update the Intelligence Officer for the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and extracts from the Intelligence Officer's Arms Traffic Diary;
price list for French arms for sale at Muscat.
The principal correspondents are: British India Steam Navigation Company, the Amir of Nejd, Abdul Aziz bin Saud (Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal); the Rulers of Kuwait: Mubarak us Subah (Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ) and his successor, Shaikh Salim bin Mubarak Al Sabah; the Foreign Office; the Commander of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Division; the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, Percy Cox; the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Muscat; the Political Agents in Kuwait, Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, followed by William George Grey.
There are letters in Arabic within the file, mostly with English translation.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Kuwait
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, First Series subject files 13/6
