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1. IOR/R/15/2/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/144
Title:
File 1/A/11 I Honours and Awards.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the award of titles and honours, principally to Gulf rulers, but also to Bahraini citizens and members of staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain. The correspondence is mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1932-29 Jul 1937
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/621

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/621
Title:
‘File 22/22 Trucial Coast – Kalba Succession’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the succession to the Trucial Coast shaikhdom of Kalba, following the death of its Ruler Shaikh Said bin Hamad [Sa‘īd bin Ḥamad] on 30 April 1937, leaving a seven-year-old son, the minor Shaikh Hamad bin Said [Ḥamad bin Sa‘īd], as heir. Discussion focuses o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1931-23 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (152 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/632

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/632
Title:
File 23/5 SULTAN of MUSCAT's VISIT TO EGYPT
Scope & Content:
Consists of a letter from Sir Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to: Sir Olaf Caroe, Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, New Delhi; Captain Roy Douglas Metcalfe, Political Agent, Muscat; Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent, Bahrain. Enclos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1944-5 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/645-650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645-650
Title:
File 27 Etiquette
Scope & Content:
The Etiquette files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, contain files from the 1930s and 1940s concerning: gun salutes for British officials and members of the various Arab ruling families in the Gulf; social etiquette (such as terms of address, relative seniority of British officials and seating ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
6 files (564 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/954

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/954
Title:
'202 Notification from Govt of India Home Dept.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises notifications, resolutions, circulars, and memorandum from the following Government of India departments: the Finance Department, Home Department, Foreign and Political Department, Department of Industries and Labour, Army Department, Department of Education Health and Lands, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1923-27 Mar 1926
Extent:
1 file (276 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1273
Title:
File 6/55 Correspondence regarding Hoisting of flag by the Shaikh of Bahrain when visiting H. M. S. Warships
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence from the Political Agent, Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, in Bushi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1933-19 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1286

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1286
Title:
File 6/67 Salutes to the Ruler of Bahrain and Chiefs and notables
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from Claud Cranbrook Lewis De Grenier, acting Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, to the Political Agent, Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch. The letter is dated 9 August 1934 and reports the number of saluting guns fired by the State Police upon the arriv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1934-11 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)