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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/116-117
Title:: File 6 Staff
Scope & Content:: This Confidential subject file contains papers related to the organisation of staff in the British Political Agency at Bahrain. Covered within these files are details concerning the positions of Indian Assistant, Assistant Political Agent and Assistant Surgeon. Officials mentioned in relation to ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921-1931
Extent:: 2 files (122 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/118-120
Title:: File 7 Military and Marine
Scope & Content:: The Military and Marine files contain details of military affairs, especially concerning the Royal Air Force, affecting Bahrain and the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1921-1931
Extent:: 3 files (478 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/121-126
Title:: File 8 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The Miscellaneous files cover a variety of topics arising in Bahrain during the 1920s; the response to political reforms carried out by the Political Agent Major Clive Daly in the early 1920s; challenges facing Bahrain's pearling industry, specifically declining profitability and pressures for it...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1921-1931
Extent:: 6 files and volumes (560 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/127-138
Title:: File 9 Bahrain Reforms
Scope & Content:: The Bahrain Reforms files cover different aspects of the reforms and other modernisation programmes introduced by British officials into Bahrain during the 1920s. These include: judicial reforms and civil/criminal code reforms; economic reforms to Bahrain's pearl diving industry; Government fina...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1921-1931
Extent:: 12 files and volumes (1778 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/139-174
Title:: File 1/A Administration (Political)
Scope & Content:: The administration (Political) files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, deal with matters of political and economic importance during the 1930s, and specific issues (particularly food control and publicity) relating to the Second World War (1939-45). The files fall into a number of groups and in...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:: 1931-1946
Extent:: 36 files (8736 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/175-176
Title:: File 1/B Administration (General)
Scope & Content:: The files contain papers concerning the finances of the Bahrain State, protests and suggestions for reform. Correspondents include: Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident Persian Gulf; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; and Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa [Sheikh Ḥamad ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1932-1939
Extent:: 2 files (571 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/177-179
Title:: File 2 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:: The Books and Publications files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain two kinds of material: files concerning publicity in newspapers and journals about Bahrain and affairs in the wider Persian Gulf, much of it deriving from the Arabic language press and much if it of a sensitive or critic...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1934-1946
Extent:: 3 files (938 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/180-194
Title:: File 3: Staff
Scope & Content:: The Staff files contain details regarding various positions within or reporting to the Bahrain Political Agency, including: Assistant Political Agent; Political Officer on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; Agency Medical Officer; Censor Clerk; Upper Air Observatory staff; Post Office staff; Public Wo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1931-1949
Extent:: 15 files (838 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/195-210
Title:: File 4 Bahrain State
Scope & Content:: The Bahrain State files contain correspondence regarding a number of different topics that relate to the development of the state of Bahrain, the running of its government and its finances. The files cover financial information and the development of state services (IOR/R/15/2/195-198), educati...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1945
Extent:: 16 files (3,575 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/211-228
Title:: File 5 Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:: The Naval and Marine files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain files concerning: ports and anchorages at Bahrain; movements of British naval ship and non-military ships in the Persian Gulf; visits of United States naval vessels to Bahrain; lighting and buoying; the establishment of the Jufai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1932-1949
Extent:: 18 files (901 folios)

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