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141. IOR/R/15/2/1554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1554
Title:
‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
Scope & Content:
Notices and memoranda from various institutions and commercial concerns in Bahrain, informing the Political Agency of office closures (in observance of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu festivals, bank holidays, and other occasions such as the King’s birthday) or changes to working hours. Not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1934-28 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (412 folios)

142. IOR/R/15/2/1564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1564
Title:
‘File 16/53 Enquires Re: Calculation of Local Time’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and various governmental, commercial and military institutions in Bahrain, aimed at gathering a consensus on the standardisation of time in Bahrain, and the establishment of a set local time in relation to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1940-1 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

143. IOR/R/15/2/1565

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1565
Title:
‘File 16/54 School for the Children of Indian Communities in Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly exchanged between the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban) and the Government of Bahrain (represented by the Adviser to Government, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) on proposals to establish a school for Indian children in Bahrain. The corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1941-16 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

144. IOR/R/15/2/1573

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1573
Title:
‘File 16/61 Complaints from the Public’
Scope & Content:
Letters and other papers relating to complaints made to the Political Agency in Bahrain: complaints from individuals over ration cards issued by the Manama Municipality, and missing ration cards or numbers; commercial and contractual complaints between employees and employers, in relation to wo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1945-18 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

145. IOR/R/15/2/1583

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1583
Title:
‘File No. 16/72 Visits of students from abroad to Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to a visit to Bahrain of thirty-five students and teachers from Kuwait, instigated by the Kuwait Government. The correspondence includes: a telegram from the Political Agent at Kuwait to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), dated 10...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1946-11 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

146. IOR/R/15/2/1590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1590
Title:
‘16/81 Re: Somalis Arrived in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to twenty Somalis who arrived in Bahrain from Qatar in February 1949, claiming to be survivors of a shipwrecking off the coast of Muscat. The papers include: an account by the survivors of their shipwrecking and journey to Bahrain (f 5, f 9); correspondence exchanged between the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1949-11 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

147. IOR/R/15/2/1607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1607
Title:
'File 17/6 Books and Periodicals: Correspondence re. Supply and Rules for the supply of articles'
Scope & Content:
The file documents the purchase of books and periodicals (and the management of subscriptions) by the Bahrain Political Agency. To this end it contains receipts and bills, correspondence between the Political Agent (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, and Charles Geoffrey Prio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1926-6 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (309 folios)

148. IOR/R/15/2/1608

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1608
Title:
File 17/7 Electric Installation – E. Engine spare parts & Use of current in the Agency Buildings – Telephones.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply of electrical goods, engine parts, and other mechanical devices to the Political Agency, Bahrain. It includes correspondence with electrical and engineering companies, as well as memoranda, invoices, receipts, product brochures, and price lists. Correspondents incl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1926-15 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

149. IOR/R/15/2/1609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1609
Title:
File 17/7 III Electric Installation Political Agency Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply and maintenance of electrical installations in the Bahrain Political Agency's buildings. Most of the file consists of correspondence between the Assistant Political Agent [Captain George Ashmead Cole; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Captain Michael Gray Dixon] and the Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-2 Jul 1944
Extent:
1 file (192 folios)

150. IOR/R/15/2/1611

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1611
Title:
File 17/9 Government Property: Bahrain Toshakhana Articles and Returns
Scope & Content:
The file concerns articles in the Bahrain Toshakhana, the store where items received as gifts from tribal chiefs and princes were deposited. Such items were often later presented as gifts to other rulers. Most of the material comprises correspondence between: the Political Resident in the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1927-30 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (249 folios)