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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/512
Title:: ‘File 13/4 II Facilities for Foreign Air Company’s using Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:: The volume is a continuation of ‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’ (IOR/R/15/2/511) and contains correspondence relating to the authorisation of foreign aircraft to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and the route’s aerodrome ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 22 Dec 1937-13 Apr 1942
Extent:: 1 volume (269 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/516
Title:: ‘File 13/7 II Civil Aerodromes and Civil Air Agreement–Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: The volume is a continuation of ‘File 13/7 Civil Air Agreement’ (IOR/R/15/2/515), and contains correspondence relating to the air agreements and navigation regulations in place at the aerodromes on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and chiefly at Muharraq in Bahrain. The principal corresponden...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 9 Jan 1935-12 Sep 1936
Extent:: 1 volume (308 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/553
Title:: 16/4 JAP. SHIPPING IN P.G. 21-5-34 TO 3-7-40 I
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to Japanese shipping activities in the Persian Gulf, 1934 to 1940. Topics discussed include: visits by Japanese trawlers to the region, possible justifications for excluding them from docking at local reports and how to discourage Japanese commercial pen...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 21 May 1934-3 Jul 1940
Extent:: 1 file (387 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/557-572
Title:: File 17 Posts and Telegraphs
Scope & Content:: The Posts and Telegraphs sub-sub-series discusses matters relating to wireless telegraphy, postal services and other communications matters affecting Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly during the Second World War. Included in the sub-sub-series are discussions around exist...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1932-1949
Extent:: 16 files and volumes (1513 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/560
Title:: File 17/7 CENSORSHIP
Scope & Content:: The file discusses arrangements for the wartime censorship of telegrams and letters and customs checking of individuals’ baggage and personal belongings. Included in the file are official orders in Arabic, English and French relating to censorship rules; requests for letters in other languages t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 6 Apr 1943-2 Feb 1946
Extent:: 1 file (54 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/575
Title:: File 18/3 Application of Indian Arms Act to Bahrain
Scope & Content:: The file mainly relates to a proposal to curb the proliferation of arms in Bahrain [often referred to in the papers as Bahrein] by the issue of a proclamation (also referred to as an Alaan and an 'Alan) by the Ruler of Bahrain banning the import and export of fireams and other weapons and provid...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 5 Jan 1935-22 Jun 1937
Extent:: 1 file (132 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/766-794
Title:: File 29 War: Food Supplies
Scope & Content:: The 29 surviving files about wartime food supplies contain the correspondence of the Political Agent for Bahrain with other British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and India, as well as rulers, officials and merchants in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar. They discuss the maintena...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1940-1950
Extent:: 29 files (5,479 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/767
Title:: ‘File 29/18i I Food Supplies – TEA & COFFEE’
Scope & Content:: This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact on the population and economy of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast sheikhdoms, of Government of India export licensing restrictions for the supply of tea and to a lesser extent, coffee, sugar, dates and cotton piece goods, to the Persian G...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 08 Mar 1940-16 Mar 1944
Extent:: 1 file (372 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/838-845
Title:: File 34: Education
Scope & Content:: The Education subject files contain correspondence related to the development of education in Bahrain and Kuwait. The correspondence in the files discusses the role and activities of the British Council in the region, the recruitment of an educational advisor in Bahrain, the enrolment of Kuwaiti...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1939-1949
Extent:: 8 files and volumes (779 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/873
Title:: File 39/2 (1 B/8) Effect of abrogation of APOC concession by Persian Government on oil market in Bahrain
Scope & Content:: The file contains a letter from the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and a letter from Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), regarding the situation in Bahrain after the dispute between Britain and Persia, due to the cancellation of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession (see IOR/R/15/1/636). The file als...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 5 Dec 1932-15 May 1933
Extent:: 1 file (38 folios)

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