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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1356
Title:: File 10/20 Enquiries re: cement
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to imports of cement into Bahrain. The file includes enquiries from The Cement Marketing Company Ltd, London, about the amount of cement imported into Bahrain for each of the years 1929-1933, to which the Agency provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then disc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 9 Feb 1931-17 Feb 1941
Extent:: 1 file (66 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1362
Title:: File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
Scope & Content:: Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 14 Jul 1936-16 Jun 1948
Extent:: 1 file (262 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1365-1367
Title:: File 11: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:: The Slave Trade subject files comprise: extracts of the 1873 Proclamation prohibiting the Slave Trade; reports and correspondence on freed slaves; applications for manumission certificates.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1926-1938
Extent:: 3 files (266 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1366
Title:: File 11/2: Jamileh and 4 others slave girls - Correspondence re.
Scope & Content:: The file contains reports and correspondence regarding five female slaves who were freed from kidnappers and sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file includes documents in Arabic, a translation of a report containing statements from the five women, explaining what happened to them (foli...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 19 Nov 1925-24 Jul 1926
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1367
Title:: File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION
Scope & Content:: The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931
Extent:: 1 file (195 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1368-1390
Title:: File 12: Shipping
Scope & Content:: The Shipping subject files comprise correspondence and papers relating to commercial shipping at Bahrain and in the wider Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the files are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; representatives of the Government of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1924-1950
Extent:: 23 volumes and files (2293 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1369
Title:: ‘File 12/2 Accident between S.S. “Bandra” and a Dhow on the 12th August 1929, in the Bahrain Harbour.’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence, statements and other papers related to a collision which took place on 12 August 1929, twelve miles off the coast of Bahrain, between a steamer, the SS Bandra, operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN), and a dhow, working on the pearl banks...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1929-13 May 1930
Extent:: 1 file (74 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1370
Title:: ‘File 12/3 Sickness and Death of Crew on ships – Shipping Articles deposit of / (Bahrain crew for Caltex II)’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to incidents of sickness, injury and death on board ships, subsequently reported to the Political Agency upon the arrival of the vessel concerned at Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents include shipping agents and operators base...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Oct 1926-23 Nov 1944
Extent:: 1 file (265 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1372
Title:: ‘File 12/5 Wrecks of sailing boats and vessels in the sea and salvages’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, statements made by nakhudas, bills and receipts, all related to incidents in which native vessels were wrecked or damaged in the Persian Gulf (and chiefly in the waters around Bahrain) usually as a result either of storms or collision with another vessel. The co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 17 Nov 1929-12 Apr 1945
Extent:: 1 file (282 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1373
Title:: ‘File 12/5 II Accidents involving country craft’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to incidents involving local cargo vessels, frequently referred to as country craft, travelling through the Persian Gulf, usually between ports in Iraq, Iran and India. The incidents referred to include the sinking and running aground o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 21 Apr 1945-4 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (153 folios)

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