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PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas' [4r] (7/12)
The record is made up of 1 file (4 folios). It was created in 20 May 1940. 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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reached the figure of a quarter of a million sterling \35
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
)
in the year of hi^iest production* (Only part of this income
is retained for the private use of the Sheikh and his family.
A considerable proportion is being wisely set aside in a reserve
fund against the day when oil production falls off; the
remainder assists the development of social services? education?
etc.) In 'star, the Trucial Sheikdoms, and kuscat the oil
concessions have been obtained by an offshoot of the Iraq
Petroleum Company. I rilling has proceeded for sane tine in
atar and oil was recently reached at about 6,000 feet.
Elsewhere only preliminary exploration has been carried out,
greatly hanrered by the weakness of the control and influence
exercised by the Tracial Sheikhs and even by the Sultan of
Muscat in the hinterland v.hieh contains the only structures
. « •
likely to interest the geologists.
To complete this brief picture of oil developments on the
rrb coast it is necessary to include a reference to Hasa, t e
province of 3audi J rabia occupying the coast between Bahrein and
Koweit. Here the concessionaires are another of shoot of the
Standard Oil ompany of California, vis. the California Arabian
Standard Oil Company. They have discovered what promises to
be a very wealthy field. Production was in full swing before
the outbreak of v/ar* the oil either being delivered direct to
tankers at the net; port of fas Tanura, or else shipped to
Bahrein for refining in the Bahrein Refinery. A new refinery
is now to be built on the mainland. One stretch of territory
has still to be mentioned - the Koweit Neutral Zone, an area
lying between f.ot/eit proper and Hasa* the creation of the
ejd - Kowoit frontier settlement of 1922, when it was found
necessary to leaveTfor future decision the division of this
area between Ibn Baud and the Sheikh of Koweit, who meantime
were/
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The file details the Government of India’s financial and administrative responsibilities towards the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The text is divided into sections: ‘Iran’ (folio 2), ‘Persian Gulf’ (folios 2 to 3), ‘The Air Route’ (folio 3), ‘Oil’ (folios 3 to 4) and ‘Defence Measures’ (folios 3 to 5).
The papers provide information on the Government of India’s past and current responsibilities and relations with Iran. Also discussed are concerns over a potential Russian advance through Afghanistan and Persian-German relations which in part are attributed to the reign of Reza Shah [Shah of Iran, Pahlavi dynasty].
The significance of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as a strategic and commercial air route to India, and as a source of oil, now and in the future is discussed. Further highlighted is the responsibility of the Foreign Office and other departments to conduct relations with the Arab states of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Muscat, and the implementation of wartime defence methods in the region.
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- 1 file (4 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/379
- Title
- PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence