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Language Arabic Subject Imports Name Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, c 1929-c 1944

1. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/768
Title:
File 29/18 II Tea and coffee: Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-24 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/769

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/769
Title:
‘File 29/18 vol. iii TEA FOR BAHRAIN, EAST SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (238 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/778
Title:
‘File 29/21 vol ii FOOD SUPPLIES RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Dubai and the other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, also Qatar, at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). Rice and whea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1945-30 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/783

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/783
Title:
File 29/23 i Contravention of Food Regulations and smuggling of quota goods
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about investigations conducted by the Political Agent, Bahrain into the maritime smuggling of rice, sugar, tea, matches, cotton piece goods and other essential commodities in short supply during the Second World War (1939-1945). Supply and trade in these goods be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1944-16 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (227 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/785
Title:
‘File 29/25 DATES QUOTA – 1944-’45 FOR BAHRAIN AND TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about a British Ministry of Food scheme in 1944 for ensuring a controlled supply of Iraqi dates at reasonable prices to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), because local date crops were insufficient and imported dates were subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1944-24 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/791
Title:
File 29/30 vol. ii CIVIL REQUIREMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - EG. PEPPER, SPICES, TURMERIC, ETC
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of foodstuffs, cotton and leather goods, soap and other manufactured articles, from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, under Government of India wartime export licensing restrictions and import...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 May 1945-1 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (149 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1375
Title:
‘File 12/7 I Shipping. Arrival of Sailing Crafts at Qatar and other places with Cargo.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the shipment and transhipment of cargo on local vessels (frequently referred to as country craft) from Karachi to Qatar (spelt in various ways, including Kattar, Gutter, Quatar) and, to a lesser extent, other ports on the Arab coast of the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1932-1 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (296 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1376
Title:
‘File 12/7 II Arrival of country craft from India’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the shipment and transhipment of cargo (chiefly rice, sugar, spices, piece goods) from India (Karachi) to the ports of the Persian Gulf, chiefly Dubai, Katar [Qatar, also spelt Gutter, Quatter in the file] and Bahrain. The file is a direct chronologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1924-4 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (498 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1377
Title:
‘File 12/7 Vol. III Arrival of Country-Craft from India with cargoes for Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Qatar – Verification of Export Manifests –’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the shipment and transhipment of cargo from India (chiefly Karachi but also Veraval) to the ports of the Persian Gulf, principally Dubai, Sharjah, Qatar (often spelt Quattar) and Bahrain. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 12/7 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Oct 1944-30 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (198 folios)