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037-000228401 Language Arabic Name Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, c 1929-c 1944

1. IOR/R/15/2/900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/900
Title:
File 42/2 (6/2) C.C.L. De Grenier, Directors of Customs; G.W.R. Smith
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier, Director of Customs in Bahrain (1924-1943). The correspondence is primarily between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and officials at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence concerns...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1932-19 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/141
Title:
File 1/A/5 I Qatar Affairs.
Scope & Content:
The volume is a correspondence file concerning affairs in Qatar, which came under the administration of the Political Agency, Bahrain. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; the India Office; the War Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1932-12 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

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/15/2/769

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)

9. 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)

10. 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)