'Arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928'
IOR/L/PS/18/B410
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The record is made up of 1 file (2 folios). It was created in 8 Oct 1928. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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Memorandum outlining developments in the suppression of the trade in arms in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from 1908-28.
Covering:
- introduction to arms traffic in Muscat, and the reduction in arms traffic in the Gulf as a whole;
- treaty engagements, etc., of states bordering on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. – including Persia, Bahrein [Bahrain], Koweit [Kuwait], the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Turkey, and Muscat;
- the Arms Traffic Convention of 1919 and 1925 – the effect of the First World War, and objections of Persia to being classified as a prohibited area for the purpose of arms traffic;
- arms traffic in the Gulf, 1908-1919 – the suppression of arms traffic from Muscat in 1912, and agreements with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd];
- arms traffic in the Gulf, 1919-1928 – conference held at Karachi in August 1921 concerning the danger of revival in the arms trade, and recommendations to combat this;
- summary.
Written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the 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. .
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- 1 file (2 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 71, and terminates at f 72, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- English in Latin script
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- 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B410
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- P 5406/28
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- 8 Oct 1928 (CE, Gregorian)
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- 'Arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928'
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- Title
- 'Arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928'
- Pages
- 71r, 72r:72v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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