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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/59-61
Title:: File 5 British Protection
Scope & Content:: This Confidential subject file contains papers related to British protection in Bahrain. Covered in these files are the establishment of a Christian cemetery in Manamah in 1901 and its upkeep; Bahraini shipping vessels and the Tangistan blockade in 1916; and the issue of a young Iraqi Jewish woma...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1901-1920
Extent:: 3 files (154 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/62 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 7 Customs
Scope & Content:: The records consist of one file only. This relates to improvements to the customs pier at Bahrain funded by a loan from Bahrain merchants. It includes a list of those merchants who made contributions.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1916-1917
Extent:: 1 file (37 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/63 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 16 Office Instructions
Scope & Content:: The Office Instructions sub-sub-series consists of one file that contains correspondence between British officials regarding instructions and regulations for the various British agencies and offices in the Persian Gulf region. The issues discussed in the file include the use of demi-official co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1907-1918
Extent:: 1 file (102 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/64 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 25 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The records consist of one file only. The file relates to the correction of shortages in weights used by foreign shopkeepers and merchants in Bahrain, and the supply of sets of standard weights for the state.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1909-1917
Extent:: 1 file (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/65 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 27 Al Khalifa Family
Scope & Content:: The records consist of one file only. This relates to the succession to Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa [‘Isá bin ‘Ali Al Khalifah] in Bahrain in 1914-17, and the recognition of his son Hamad as successor.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1901-1917
Extent:: 1 file (132 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/66 (Sub-sub-series
Title:: File 28 Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths
Scope & Content:: The records consist of one file only. This relates to births and marriages of British and American nationals in Bahrain.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909-1921
Extent:: 1 file (47 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/67-72
Title:: Miscellaneous unnumbered files
Scope & Content:: The records consist of the following miscellaneous files: miscellaneous official and demi-official correspondence relating to the outbreak of World War One and its impact on Bahrain, 1914-1917; reports from the Political Agent, Bahrain, to the Eastern Bureau, Basra 1916-1917; a file of miscella...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1914-1920
Extent:: 6 files (373 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/73-95
Title:: File 1 Political
Scope & Content:: The Political files of the Political Agency, Bahrain for this period deal with important political developments in the Persian Gulf affecting Bahrain itself and wider British interests in the region. The principal topic covered in the papers is relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1915-1937
Extent:: 23 files and volumes (4748 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/96-99
Title:: File 2 Trade
Scope & Content:: This Confidential subject file contains papers related to the negotiation of Bahrain oil concessions between 1922 and 1931, as well as the amendment of title-deeds for land occupied by the Bahrain Political Agency.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1922-1931
Extent:: 4 files (952 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/100-115
Title:: File 5 Personalities
Scope & Content:: This Confidential subject file contains papers relating to vaerious personalities active in Bahrain in the 1920s and early 1930s, including: ‘Abd Allāh bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah; ‘Abd al-‘Azīz and ‘Abd Allāh al-Quṣaybī; Muḥammad Sharīf bin Ḥājī Quṭb al-Dīn Awāzī; Muḥammad ‘Alī Nāsir; Jāsim Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1921-1933
Extent:: 16 files (696 folios)

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