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Naval and Shipping
Political
Trade and Commerce
Visitors, Suspects and Undesirables
Travels in Oman
Internal Politics and Relations with Oman

L/P&Slio Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Subject Files,
1902-31
L/P&SIii Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Annual Files,
1912—3° (vols. 30-308)
LIP&S/I2 Departmental Records: Political (External) Files and
Collections, c. 1931-50
Until 1930, the Political Department of the India Office, with
just one secretary, was concerned with both the affairs of the
Indian states and the foreign policy of the Government of India.
L/P&S/10 and L/P&S/11 contain political and secret (P&S) subject
and annual files, respectively; the individual papers of the Political
Department at this time all had the prefix P.
After 1930, the work of the Political Department was divided
between two new sections, each with its own secretary: the Political
(Internal) Department, concerned with all work related to the Indian
states; and the Political (External) Department, which dealt with
foreign affairs. It is in the records of the latter, L/P&S/12, that
post-1930 Political Department records relating to the Gulf arc
to be found.
In the L/P&S/12 records, the individual papers all have a prefix
of PZ, to distinguish them from those of the Political (Internal)
Department, PY. In 1941, when the Political (External) Department
became the External Department, the prefix was changed to Ext.
Of the fifty-nine subject divisions, or collections, in L/P&S/12,
the following were used for the present study:
Aircraft and Aviation: vols 1947-66
Arabia: vols 2064-158
Arms and Ammunition and Arms Traffic: vols 2186-212
Establishment and Secretariat Procedure: vols 2773, 2782-4,
2790-1, 2800
Muscat: vols 2951-95
Orders-in-Council: vols 3304, 3306, 3312, 3314-19. 332i-3»
Passports: vols 3369-84 , ^ . . .
Persia, Persian Gulf (HM Consuls and Consulates in): vols
3551-698