The file consists of papers, largely correspondence, completion certificates of repairs, and abstract of cost estimates, relating to special repairs to the Political Agency building and compound in Bahrain. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of servants’ quarters and...
‘File 18/13 I. Buildings: Accommodation for Agency Clerical Staff’
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The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to accommodation for Bahrain Political Agency clerical staff, including correspondence regarding the flat formerly used by the Public Relations Offices. The file includes three documents in Arabic, including correspondence between the R...
File 31/4 Books and Publications from Indian Information Services
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The file contains correspondence received from the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India, forwarding a copy of a weekly bulletin titled 'Indiagram' for circulation amongst Indian residents in the Arabian Peninsula. The file also includes a 'Report of the Forestry and Timber Util...
File 33/3 [16/2] Correspondence with the Wireless Station etc.
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The file contains correspondence concerning the radio (referred to earlier in the file as the wireless) station, Bahrain. The station was initially run by the Indo-European Telegraph Department (a department of the Government of India), but from 1931 responsibility passed to a public company, Im...
File 33/3 II Routine Correspondence with Cable & Wireless Ld., BAHRAIN
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The file contains correspondence on matters of routine administration between the Political Agency, Bahrain and Cable and Wireless Limited, Bahrain. The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Officer-in-Charge (later Manager), Cable and Wireless, Bahrain; and other members of...
‘File B/10-3 CLAIM OF KAL AHMAD DRESSER AGAINST THE LATE HILAL BIN RAMAZAN OF DUBAI’
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The file contains correspondence relating to a renewed debt recovery claim in 1936 made by Ahmad Gharibi (also referred to as Kal Ahmed), a wound dresser employed in the Persian Gulf Residency Dispensary at Bushire. His claim is against the late Hilal bin Ramazan (also referred to as Hilal bin R...
The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation and prosecution of nine cases of piracy by the Political Agent, Kuwait. These cases concern attacks by Arab, Persian and Somali pirates, mainly on Kuwaiti cargo and passenger boats, their passengers and crew, in the Persian Gulf and o...
This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit). The papers notably cover/include the following: The est...
The file includes letters (drafts, originals, and copies), telegrams, and notes relating to secret negotiations over the lease of Bander Shweikh [Ash Shuwaykh] from the Shaikh of Kuwait. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agent, Kuwait, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (or ...
Copies of correspondence from the British Minister in Saudi Arabia (Stanley R Jordan) to the Foreign Office, dated 2 March 1944, and subsequently forwarded by the India Office to the Government of India, describing the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
