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11. IOR/R/15/2/13-18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/13-18
Title:
File B Commercial
Scope & Content:
The confidential commercial subject files deal with matters of commercial concern arising in Bahrain, as follows: the discovery and survey of bitumen and oil deposits in Bahrain; the efforts by British and foreign concerns to gain concessions for sponge fishing, pearl fishing, and pearl exports,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1907-1921
Extent:
6 files and volumes (333 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/605-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:
File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1949
Extent:
11 files and volumes (478 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/1676-1688

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1676-1688
Title:
File 21: Aviation
Scope & Content:
The thirteen aviation files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to matters of civil and military aviation in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in Bushire (later in Bahrain), numerous other political and m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1927-1950
Extent:
13 files and volumes (1137 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/1/749-758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/749-758
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: further additional papers
Scope & Content:
The records consist of unrelated miscellaneous additional records of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/749: Oil Concessions, 1933 - c. 1964; IOR/R/15/1/750: Government of Bahrain Administration Report for 1926-1937, and Annual Reports ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1884-c 1964
Extent:

14 files and volumes

15. IOR/R/15/1/237-238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/237-238
Title:
File 13 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The file and volume consists of correspondence, memos, and file notes relating to those subjects deemed miscellaneous within the Bushire Residency records. The first covers the evolution of the forms of address used for the various rulers of the Persian Gulf region. The second concerns locust sur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1912-1945
Extent:
2 files and volumes (226 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/1368-1390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1368-1390
Title:
File 12: Shipping
Scope & Content:
The Shipping subject files comprise correspondence and papers relating to commercial shipping at Bahrain and in the wider Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the files are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; representatives of the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1924-1950
Extent:
23 volumes and files (2293 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/5/94-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94-108
Title:
Miscellaneous Files
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series is comprised of papers relating to British involvement in managing the relations between the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Ruler of Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] – commonly referred to as Ibn Saud. Subjects covered in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1918-1928
Extent:

15 files (2531 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/1/195-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195-198
Title:
Subject Compilations
Scope & Content:
'Old System' miscellaneous compilations. The first surviving file in this sub-series was renumbered as file 14/88se R/15/1/246. Subjects include the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891; Sirrī and other Persian Gulf islands; and commercial banks on the Arab coast of the Persian G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1887-1918
Extent:
4 volumes (585 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4
Title:
Residency Agency, Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
Very few files have survived from the Residency Agency, probably because there was little methodical record keeping before the appointment of the British Political Officer in 1939. The series contains only seventeen files dating from 1930 to 1951. Subjects covered include boundaries, Sharjah Air ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
17 files (1878 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594
Title:
File 16: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1917-1954
Extent:
102 files (13,197 folios)

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