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31. IOR/R/15/1/330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/330
Title:
File 19/118 (C 7) Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence regarding the appointment of the first Political Agent to Bahrain (1900). The documents include an assessment of Shaikh Isa bin Ali's rule and discuss the rationale behind the appointment of an Agent to the island as well as the logistics and price involved in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1898-10 Apr 1908
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/1/349

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/349
Title:
File 19/175 Bahrain - Pearling
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the pearling industry of Bahrain and the reforms of the industry that were enacted by the British during the 1920s. The correspondence discusses the status of the industry prior to the reforms, the nature of the relationship between the ship captain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1924-30 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

33. IOR/R/15/1/204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/204
Title:
‘File 5/161 III Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to forty-four manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence within each case follows a similar pattern. In each case the Agency (then under the charge of Major Clive Daly) sent a covering letter to the Resident, which s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1924-14 Dec 1929
Extent:

One volume (293 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/1/205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/205
Title:
‘File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to fifty-one manumission cases, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most cases are straightforward, in that the Political Resident approved the Bahrain Political Agent’s recommendation that the slave in question be given a manumission certificate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1930-1 May 1934
Extent:

1 volume (354 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/1/206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/206
Title:
‘File 5/161 V Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to manumission applications made by slaves at the Political Agency at Bahrain. A total of seventy-six individual cases for manumission are dealt with in the file. Cases generally follow a set pattern, beginning with the slave’s manumission statement, fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1934-28 May 1938
Extent:

One volume (440 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/1/240

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/240
Title:
14/7 (XVIII) and (XX) Arab Coast. Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Bushire, Bahrain, and Sharjah. Topics include: The visit of Lady Willingdon to Sharjah. A raid by Manasir tribe and murder of the Amir of Khan village. Diving on the Trucial Coast and measures to improve the living conditions of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1933-29 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/1/554-555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554-555
Title:
File 60: Financial
Scope & Content:
There are two surviving files in the ‘Financial’ subject category. The earlier file, which is a bound volume, contains correspondence about banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly the rival operations of the Eastern Bank, the Imperial Bank of Persia (later the Imperial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1918-1946
Extent:
2 files and volumes (205 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/1/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/376
Title:
File 19/252 Bahrain Water Supply
Scope & Content:
The documents in this file are all related to the natural water supply of Bahrain. They include two detailed surveys of the island's water supply, correspondence concerning the status of Bahrain's artesian wells, concerns about the wastage of water in gardens owned by Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1939-19 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 volume (45 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/1/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/742
Title:
Air Agreements
Scope & Content:
The file consists of typescript and printed copies (including supporting correspondence) of the following air agreements between the United Kingdom and other states: Lebanon, 1951 (including correspondence and papers in French and Arabic); Kuwait, Civil Air Agreement and Air Navigation Regulati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
1 file (153 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/1/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/202
Title:
‘File 5/104 II,III Miscellaneous slave trade correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and papers related to miscellaneous slave trade correspondence: Correspondence between the Deputy Political Resident and the Political Agent in Muscat (Major Lionel Haworth) relating to an incident in June 1917, in which a pearl diver sought refuge at the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1913-27 Jan 1935
Extent:

1 volume (77 folios)