Archive Reference (shelfmark): IOR/R / Language: Arabic - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1843
Title:: File A/4 Rules governing manumission of slaves
Scope & Content:: The file is comprised of extracts of correspondence and official notices, all referring to the manumission of slaves in the Persian Gulf. The contents of the file appear to have been compiled by staff at the Bahrain Political Agency over a number of years for reference purposes on how to deal wi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 May 1926-12 Apr 1950
Extent:: 1 file (32 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1844
Title:: File A/6 Claims and complaints received and settled
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers and correspondence related to a host of claims and complaints, occurring both in Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, that were brought to the attention of the Political Agent in Bahrain. The papers do not provide any detail of the court proceedings or the outcomes of any c...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 17 Feb 1936-1 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (285 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1846
Title:: File A/8 Correspondence regarding extradition of persons
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to four separate extradition requests in the Persian Gulf region, sent to the Bahrain Political Agency. In the first case Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, sought the extradition of a Bahraini subject alleged to have misappropriated mo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1934-28 Jun 1950
Extent:: 1 file (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1847
Title:: Miscellaneous Papers Regarding Judicial Matters
Scope & Content:: This file concerns a request for assistance to the Political Agency, Bahrain, from the Adlieyah of Nasriyah Ahwaz in a judicial relief case. The documents (in Arabic, Persian and English) concern a case filed by Rustam bin Ali [Rustam bin ‘Alī], a Persian resident of Bahrain, against Mohd. bin G...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 2 Jun 1931-23 Jun 1931
Extent:: 1 file (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1848
Title:: File A/10 Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and papers relating to fourteen separate slave trading incidents reported on the Trucial Coast by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). The incidents include an owner's attempt to sell his servant's daughter into slavery, and the trafficking of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1 Sep 1935-12 Mar 1941
Extent:: 1 file (459 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1849
Title:: File A/10 II Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and other papers, sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to thirty-three manumission applications and six applications for the restoration of enslaved relatives, heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). Each of the manumission c...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 Dec 1941-18 Nov 1943
Extent:: 1 file (201 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1850
Title:: File A/10 Slavery. Slave cases of the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file contains thirty-eight manumission cases, dealing with over one-hundred manumission applications or requests from individuals for help in the retrieval of enslaved relatives. All of the cases (with the exception of one occurring in Bahrain, folio 439) were heard by the Political Officer ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1941-13 Nov 1946
Extent:: 1 file (442 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1851
Title:: File A/11 I Slave cases Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file contains twelve cases of slavery or applications for manumission, heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah. While the final three cases in the file (involving nine slaves) are straightforward manumission applications, other cases are more complex, and involve larger amounts of correspond...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Jan 1936-12 Dec 1937
Extent:: 1 file (362 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1852
Title:: File A/11 II Slave cases Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file comprises eighteen manumission application cases numbered 13 to 30, cases 1 to 12 being contained in the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 I Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1851). The files contain a total of sixty-nine individual manumission applications (as well as one woman’s app...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 24 Nov 1937-12 Jun 1938
Extent:: 1 file (369 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1853
Title:: File A/11 IV Slave cases Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file is comprised of twenty-six manumission application cases numbered 31 to 56, cases 13 to 30 being contained in the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 II Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1852). The file contains a total of eighty-nine individual manumission applications, made to the Res...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 14 May 1938-6 Mar 1939
Extent:: 1 file (375 folios)

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