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'Muscat Levy Corps' [175r] (363/395)
The record is made up of 1 volume (191 folios). It was created in 10 Jun 1931-25 Apr 1937. 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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Correspondence discusses the Muscat Levy Corp: its organisation, composition, strength, budget and activities.
Letters discuss the reduction in the pay of the Muscat Levy; the rates of pay of the different ranks in the force; composition, non-military personnel employed with the Muscat Levy Corps; procurement of armaments and arrangements for export licenses; Combined exercises between the Muscat Levies and H.M.S. Fowey in 1937.
Correspondents include: Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; Hugh Vincent Biscoe, 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. Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; Major Ralph Ponsonby Watts, 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. , Muscat; Reginald George Alban, Commandant Muscat Infantry; Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman.
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- 1 volume (191 folios)
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Foliation: There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete sequence which should be used for referencing, is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the title page with 1A and ends on the inside of the back cover on 191.
Foliation errors: ff 1A-C, ff 41A-B
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- IOR/R/15/1/430
- Title
- 'Muscat Levy Corps'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:40v, 41ar:41bv, 42r:56r, 57r:112v, 114v:190v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence