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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1916
Title:: File No. E/23 Attestation of Documents. a Powers of Attorney.
Scope & Content:: The file contains a memorandum and a letter sent to the Political Agency, Bahrain, requesting an attestation of a document for the Minors’ Estates Department, Bahrain, and a landing certificate for the Customs House, Qatar. The main correspondence is between the Adviser to the Government of Bah...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Jun 1947-5 Mar 1949
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1918
Title:: File E/26 REQUESTS FOR TRACING OF PERSONS IN BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding requests for the tracing of persons in Bahrain. The main correspondence is between the Government of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, the British Agency at Sharjah, and the Political Agency, Bahrain.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 May 1950-18 Dec 1950
Extent:: 1 file (18 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1920
Title:: File F/1 Correspondence with the Municipalities regarding Judicial Matters
Scope & Content:: This file contains letters, memos, budgetary ledgers primarily on judicial disputes between shopkeepers and the Manama Municipality. The disputes mainly pertain to the non-payment of Municipal Taxes. Few folios refer to disputes between individuals with the Manama Municipality arbitrating.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 14 Jan 1931-13 Dec 1950
Extent:: 1 file (60 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1922
Title:: File F/2 II Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Manamah Municipality
Scope & Content:: This file contains meeting minutes of the governing board of the Manama municipality, and their translations. Covering letters of the meetings follow a set of Arabic and English transcriptions of the meetings which cover a wide variety of municipal and/or administrative concerns. Some letters fro...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 14 May 1935-22 Aug 1936
Extent:: 1 file (230 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1935
Title:: File No. G/1 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with H. E. Shaikh Sir `Isa, his son H. E. Shaikh Hamad and other Shaikhs.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent mainly between Bahrain Political Agents Charles Geoffrey Prior and Percy Gordon Loch respectively, and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and other Al-Khalifa shaikhs. The letters were regarding visiting one another to discuss state relat...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Mar 1932-10 Dec 1935
Extent:: 1 file (225 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1936
Title:: File No. G/1. II Miscellaneous correspondence with H. E. Shaikh Sir Hamad bin 'Isa and other members of the ruling family.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent mainly between the Agent in charge at the Political Agency, Bahrain, and members of Al-Khalifa ruling family. The letters were regarding visiting one another to discuss state-related issues. Other letters were sent from both sides to i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Jan 1936-24 Apr 1947
Extent:: 1 file (153 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1937
Title:: File No. G/2 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Manamah Notables.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain including Percy Gordon Loch and Tom Hickinbotham and the notables of Manama, including, Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo and Abdulaziz Al-Qosaibi (al-Gosaibi). The letters are mostly personal and contain in...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:: 20 Mar 1932-20 Aug 1942
Extent:: 1 file (116 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1938
Title:: File No. G/3 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Muharraq Notables.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding school enrolment and arrangements for a car to pick up the Political Agent upon his arrival from Basra. The correspondence is between the Political Agent in Bahrain (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Ahmed bin Yousuf Fakhroo and Khanbahadur Abdul Hay al-Hashimi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Aug 1932-22 Dec 1932
Extent:: 1 file (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1939
Title:: File No. G/4 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Qadhis.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain including Percy Gordon Loch and Tom Hickinbotham and the Qadis (judges) of the Shia and Sunni Sharia Courts in Bahrain such as the Shia Court Qadi Ali bin Hasan Al-Musa, and the Sunni Court Qadi ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 5 Mar 1932-14 May 1939
Extent:: 1 file (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1940
Title:: File No. G/5 V. O. Correspondence with the Qadhis regarding judicial matters.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters, petitions and reports, regarding divorce cases of local women in Bahrain. The correspondence is between a Qatari local woman, the Bahrain Sharia Court, the Bahrain Political Agency, and the Ruler of Qatar (Abdullah bin Qasim Al-Thani). The...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 5 May 1932-20 Feb 1934
Extent:: 1 file (13 folios)

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