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Language Arabic Name Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, c 1929-c 1944 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/R/15/2/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/169
Title:
File 1/A/48 I Control of Prices of standard foodstuffs in Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the control of prices of foodstuffs and other commodities in Bahrain, the suppression of hoarding, and the regulation of imports and exports by the Food Controller, Bahrain, against the background of wartime conditions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1939-1 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (281 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/R/15/2/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/171
Title:
File 1/A/48 III FOOD CONTROL.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the effects of the implementation of controls on the import and export of food and other commodities in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1942-8 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (278 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/699
Title:
‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, copies of official notices and regulations, and other papers, relating to air raid precautions and passive air defence measures taken in Bahrain throughout the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 May 1940-22 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:
File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)