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1. IOR/L/PS/12/3369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3369
Title:
Coll 27/9 ‘Passports. British Protected Persons. Travel documents for persons proceeding to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to passports and visas for persons travelling to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states. It includes papers concerning the following: the procedure in connection with the issue of these travel documents; fees...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1924-27 Sep 1939
Extent:

1 volume (618 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/77
Title:
File 1/3 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Relations of Akhwan with Neighbouring States.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (also referred to Ibn Sa'ud), Sultan of Najd (also referred to as Nejd), particularly relations between Najd (also referred to as the Akhwan [Ikhwān]) and neighbouring states. The file contains correspondence b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1922-13 Feb 1924
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/84
Title:
File 1/13 I Major Head:- Political. Sub:- Head:- Persian pretensions to Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Persian claims to Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein). The correspondence is mainly between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Bahrain. Other correspondents include the British Consular Agent, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and the Adviser to the Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
19 Mar 1922-10 Dec 1931
Extent:
1 volume (341 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/463
Title:
'11/3 ACTIVITIES OF SAUDI ARABIANS IN DOHA'
Scope & Content:
This file is entitled 'Activities of Saudi Arabians in Doha'; however, it concerns the activities of Saudi Arabians in Bahrain. The file includes correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Captain George Ashmead Cole, Political Agent at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1934-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/607
Title:
‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the lifting of travel restrictions imposed in 1944 by the British authorities in the Gulf on three members of the Darwish family from Qatar – Jasim bin Darwish, Abdulla bin Darwish and Abdur-Rahman bin Darwish. Correspondents in the file include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946-20 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1193
Title:
File 5/11 I King's Regulations and Amendments under Bahrain Order-in-Council
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning amendments and proposed amendments (by means of King's Regulations) to the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; officials of the Government of India;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1935-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (261 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1384
Title:
‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows: correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
13 Nov 1943-23 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1408

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1408
Title:
‘File 13/18 ILLEGAL TRAVELLING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE AMIR OF JAALAN, - BENI BU ALI, TO MUSCAT SUBJECTS.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Passport Officer, Bahrain; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence contains reports of three instances where Arab and Indian travellers used an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1929-10 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1590

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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1748
Title:
File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1929-16 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)