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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1550
Title:: ‘File 16/42 Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence, some of a demi-official nature, relating to visitors and guests at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Most of the correspondence is routine, and relates to enquires and arrangements for the arrival and departure of visitors, and in some cases the provision of accommodation and faci...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Feb 1933-8 Apr 1942
Extent:: 1 file (270 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1552
Title:: ‘File 16/43-I Miscellaneous. (i) Holidays observed by the Political Agency, Bahrain. (ii) Notes re: Daily Working Hours’
Scope & Content:: Notices, office notes and some correspondence relating to the public holidays observed by, and working hours of, the Political Agency. The notices in the file, signed by or on behalf of the Political Agent, were circulated to Bahrain Government representatives, administrative officials, and vari...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 Jan 1934-1 Feb 1947
Extent:: 1 file (238 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1554
Title:: ‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
Scope & Content:: Notices and memoranda from various institutions and commercial concerns in Bahrain, informing the Political Agency of office closures (in observance of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu festivals, bank holidays, and other occasions such as the King’s birthday) or changes to working hours. Not...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Mar 1934-28 Dec 1950
Extent:: 1 file (412 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1563
Title:: ‘File 16/52 Correspondence regarding building of Catholic Church in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence (in English and Arabic) exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) and the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah) dated 1939, relating to the latter’s agreement to provide a piece of land at the edge of Manama town for the construction of a Cat...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 5 Feb 1939-27 Aug 1947
Extent:: 1 file (7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1568
Title:: File 16/57 I Routine correspondence with British agencies and consulates other than Bushire
Scope & Content:: Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The routine correspondence covers: the ordering, exchange and de...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Feb 1944-10 Mar 1947
Extent:: 1 file (279 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1573
Title:: ‘File 16/61 Complaints from the Public’
Scope & Content:: Letters and other papers relating to complaints made to the Political Agency in Bahrain: complaints from individuals over ration cards issued by the Manama Municipality, and missing ration cards or numbers; commercial and contractual complaints between employees and employers, in relation to wo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Feb 1945-18 Aug 1949
Extent:: 1 file (44 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1578
Title:: ‘File 16/66 Gifts and souvenirs to shaikhs’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to gifts of ammunition cartridges made by British political officials to members of the ruling family of Bahrain, including the ruler, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah. Included in the papers are letters of thanks from the recipients of these gifts, often in both Engli...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Mar 1945-8 Jan 1946
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1580
Title:: ‘File 16/68 Old and defaced currency notes & coins – Exchange of.’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, other British officials in the Persian Gulf, and representatives of the Bahrain branches of Eastern Bank Limited and the Imperial Bank of Iran, relating to Indian rupee notes in circulation in the Gulf. The correspondence covers: ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1945-30 Jun 1946
Extent:: 1 file (62 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1589
Title:: ‘File No. 16/80 Labour Employed by Local Firms other than Bapco’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence, and other papers received from employers in Bahrain, and from employees or former employees who are not native to Bahrain. In most cases the employees are of Indian or Pakistani origin, and require permits to live and work in Bahrain. The correspondence concerns: the recruitment ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Mar 1949-19 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (218 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1590
Title:: ‘16/81 Re: Somalis Arrived in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to twenty Somalis who arrived in Bahrain from Qatar in February 1949, claiming to be survivors of a shipwrecking off the coast of Muscat. The papers include: an account by the survivors of their shipwrecking and journey to Bahrain (f 5, f 9); correspondence exchanged between the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Feb 1949-11 Jun 1950
Extent:: 1 file (31 folios)

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