File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’

Content

The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, 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 Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. They discuss cost estimates and actual expenditure in relation to the approval of Government of India proposals for the expansion of the cadre of the Indian Political Department in order to fill Consular posts in Persia, 1904-1905 and 1909; the establishment of a new Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Kuwait (spelt Koweit), 1904-1907 and the purchase of the steam launch Lewis Pelly , built at the Government Dockyard in Bombay, for the use of 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 Kuwait, 1906-1907, 1909-1912 and 1914. The volume also contains a sea chart of Kuwait Port, by the Marine Survey of India in 1905.

Extent and format

1 volume (180 folios)

It is grouped into

'PERSIAN GULF - PORT OF KUWEIT Surveyed by Lieutts. T.H.H. Hand, C.S. Hickman, E.J. Headlam, A.G. Bingham and W.K. Thyne, R.I.M., under the direction of Captain T.H. Heming, R.N., in charge of the Marine Survey of India, 1905'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/69, f 180

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 339 (Koweit Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. expenditure: steam launch) consists of one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/69

Former external reference(s)

P 339/1905

History of this record

Date(s)

1904-1914 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Government spendingGovernment personnelHarboursHydrographic chartsConsular servicesVessels

Places

Kuwait

People & organisations

Political Resident, Persian GulfIndia OfficeForeign OfficeHM TreasuryGovernment of India, Foreign and Political Department

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