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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1362
Title:: File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
Scope & Content:: Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 14 Jul 1936-16 Jun 1948
Extent:: 1 file (262 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1366
Title:: File 11/2: Jamileh and 4 others slave girls - Correspondence re.
Scope & Content:: The file contains reports and correspondence regarding five female slaves who were freed from kidnappers and sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file includes documents in Arabic, a translation of a report containing statements from the five women, explaining what happened to them (foli...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 19 Nov 1925-24 Jul 1926
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1367
Title:: File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION
Scope & Content:: The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931
Extent:: 1 file (195 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1369
Title:: ‘File 12/2 Accident between S.S. “Bandra” and a Dhow on the 12th August 1929, in the Bahrain Harbour.’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence, statements and other papers related to a collision which took place on 12 August 1929, twelve miles off the coast of Bahrain, between a steamer, the SS Bandra, operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN), and a dhow, working on the pearl banks...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1929-13 May 1930
Extent:: 1 file (74 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1372
Title:: ‘File 12/5 Wrecks of sailing boats and vessels in the sea and salvages’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, statements made by nakhudas, bills and receipts, all related to incidents in which native vessels were wrecked or damaged in the Persian Gulf (and chiefly in the waters around Bahrain) usually as a result either of storms or collision with another vessel. The co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 17 Nov 1929-12 Apr 1945
Extent:: 1 file (282 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1373
Title:: ‘File 12/5 II Accidents involving country craft’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to incidents involving local cargo vessels, frequently referred to as country craft, travelling through the Persian Gulf, usually between ports in Iraq, Iran and India. The incidents referred to include the sinking and running aground o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 21 Apr 1945-4 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (153 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1374
Title:: ‘File 12/6 Marine Note of Protest’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence relating to the raising of notes of protest by various parties, in response to damage sustained to vessels at sea, or loss of cargo from vessels while at sea. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Master of the SS Begum, O G Rowland Jones; the Chief Local...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 10 Oct 1931-14 Sep 1941
Extent:: 1 file (52 folios)

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)

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)

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)

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