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File 4535/1928 Pt 8 ‘ – PERSIAN GULF – QUESTION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTORATES OVER KOWEIT, BAHREIN, MUSCAT, TRUCIAL COAST.’ [‎30r] (53/194)

The record is made up of 1 item (96 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1927-14 May 1929. 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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of a permanent character), and the assistance
gi en to the Muscat State against revolting
vassals such as the amir of Jaalan is
given within such limits as seem good to His
Majesty’s Government, and, I conceive,
solely because it is to our interestto keep
Muscat together as a political entity.
•8. Present arrangements for
practical purposes give us full control in
Muscat. The danger that a future Ruler may
cause trouule by intrigues with foreign
Powers is admittedly one which cannot be
appreciated at this stage. But it is, in my
view, a duger which His Majesty’s Government
can face with a certain degree of equanimity
seeing that tne Ruling House cannot subsist
without our financial and military baking.
^he arguments against the extension of our
liabilities in respect of the State a ipear,
for the reasons which I have set out above,
to be strong, and I would suggest, for the
consideration of my colleagues, that in Muscat
we shoufd content ourselves with aiming at the
maintenance of the s tutus quo, and should not
pursue the idea of a formal protectorate.
(3d.) Peel.
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. ,
9th November 1928.

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This part contains papers relating to the question of whether Koweit [Kuwait], Bahrein [Bahrain], Muscat, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Sheikdoms should become formal British protectorates, including the views on this question of the following: 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. ; HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Robert Clive); the Government of India; the Colonial Office; 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. ; and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence.

This part also includes papers relating to the question of the terms of a draft article for inclusion in a treaty with Persia [Iran] regarding the status of Bahrain.

The papers include correspondence, 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. memoranda, 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. Political Department minute papers, and Committee of Imperial Defence Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sub-Committee papers.

The main correspondents are 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. , the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth).

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File 4535/1928 Pt 8 ‘ – PERSIAN GULF – QUESTION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTORATES OVER KOWEIT, BAHREIN, MUSCAT, TRUCIAL COAST.’ [‎30r] (53/194), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/1271/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100069905656.0x000041> [accessed 17 July 2026]

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