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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1790
Title:: File 36/45 Applications for Assistance to Export Machinery & Cars from U.S.A. & U.K.
Scope & Content:: This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to importing machinery and car parts from various suppliers in the United Kingdom and the United...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Sep 1943-24 Jan 1945
Extent:: 1 file (285 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1794
Title:: File 36/48 III Imports of Goods Recommended Under Sundries for the United Kingdom
Scope & Content:: This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to the importation of a number of different goods including clothes, chemicals and ammunition fr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 3 Aug 1945-5 Nov 1947
Extent:: 1 file (245 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1799
Title:: File 36/60 Minutes of the Commercial Advisory Committee Meetings
Scope & Content:: This file contains copies of the minutes of Bahrain's Commercial Advisory Committee. The Committee was a body composed of its president, Political Agent Major Tom Hickinbotham, a number of prominent local merchants based in Bahrain and G W R Smith, Director of Customs. The Committee is occasiona...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Dec 1943-9 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (61 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1801
Title:: File 36/62 Quota of Tyres and Tubes for Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and several local merchants regarding the importation of tyres and inner tubes into Bahrain and the broader Gulf region. The file also contains correspondence - in Arabic with English translations - between the Political A...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Apr 1944-7 Nov 1946
Extent:: 1 file (172 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1815
Title:: File 36/106 III Control of Motor Vehicles in Bahrain
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the importation of cars into Bahrain. This correspondence, some of which is in Arabic, primarily consists of letters to the Political Agency in Bahrain from local merchants, members of the ruling family, and other residents requesting permission to imp...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Oct 1948-19 Dec 1948
Extent:: 1 file (282 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1824
Title:: File A 1/J I Correspondence of the Adviser
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers and correspondence sent between the Political Agency and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) between 1935 and 1945, relating to civil and criminal court cases in Bahrain. The cases raised include property theft (folios 26-29), disputes o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 20 Mar 1935-31 Dec 1945
Extent:: 1 file (102 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1825
Title:: File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to around sixty cases, involving slaves who have applied for manumission at the Agency in Bahrain. Copies of correspondence relating to many of these cases can also be found in the following Bushire Residency files: 'File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (343 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1826
Title:: File A/2 II Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications
Scope & Content:: The majority of the file is correspondence relating to about forty-eight manumission applications, most of which were made at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Some applications are made with the Residency Agent at Sharjah, and forwarded to the Agency at Bahrain for submission to the Political Re...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, and Marathi
Date Range:: 20 Dec 1934-27 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (349 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1827
Title:: File A/2 III Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and other papers related to slavery, received by or sent from the Political Agency in Bahrain. The majority of the papers in the file are related to manumission applications (over fifty in total), made by slaves in Bahrain or Muscat. In most instances, the slaves...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 Jun 1937-3 Jun 1939
Extent:: 1 file (356 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1829
Title:: File [3A] Slavery: cases of Qatar slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to twenty manumission applications made by slaves from Qatar, taken down by staff at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Many of the cases in the file feature only the slave's manumission statement, with little else in the way of correspondence. In the firs...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Dec 1943-14 Sep 1946
Extent:: 1 file (66 folios)

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