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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/15/2/172
Title:: File 1/A/48 IV FOOD SUPPLIES.
Scope & Content:: The file concerns the availability of food supplies in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast, at a time when rationing and a quota system for imports had been introduced as a result of the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield);...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Gujarati
Date Range:: 27 Jul 1942-1 Nov 1942
Extent:: 1 file (330 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1200-1312
Title:: File 6: Bahrain State
Scope & Content:: The Bahrain State files of the Political Agency, Bahrain cover a range of matters connected to the running of the state in Bahrain, such as education, public works, road building, policing, marine regulations, customs, agriculture, personnel, municipal matters, state finances, public health, dri...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Hebrew, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1926-1950
Extent:: 113 files (10,236 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1224
Title:: File 6/14 II Adviser (C.D. Belgrave) and Director of Customs (C.C.L. de Grenier): Trust Fund with Eastern Bank Ltd
Scope & Content:: The file consists of correspondence connected to trust funds established for the Director of Customs (Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier) and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave). The majority of the papers are receipts, covering letters, and letters of acknowledge...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Farsi, and Gujarati
Date Range:: 1 Dec 1934-16 Oct 1940
Extent:: 1 file (263 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1227
Title:: File 6/17 I Bahrain Government Proclamations, Notices (Public), etc.
Scope & Content:: The file contains proclamations and public notices issued by the Government of Bahrain. The notices are mostly in Arabic with brief or full translations in English given for many. They are concerned with a wide range of matters relating to boating, driving, trade and pricing, customs, travel doc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, and Gujarati
Date Range:: 7 May 1926-8 Oct 1929
Extent:: 1 file (161 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1365
Title:: File 11/1 Correspondence re - SLAVE TRAFFIC AND Kidnapping etc: of Slaves (including Proclamations)
Scope & Content:: The file contains copies of covering letters and extracts of the 1873 Slave Trade Proclamation sent between 1926 and 1938. The letters were sent by Political Residency staff to British representatives in the political agencies in Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait. The file contains five copies of the ex...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, and Urdu
Date Range:: 20 Apr 1926-13 Feb 1938
Extent:: 1 file (38 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1365-1367
Title:: File 11: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:: The Slave Trade subject files comprise: extracts of the 1873 Proclamation prohibiting the Slave Trade; reports and correspondence on freed slaves; applications for manumission certificates.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1926-1938
Extent:: 3 files (266 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1826
Title:: File A/2 II Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications
Scope & Content:: The majority of the file is correspondence relating to about forty-eight manumission applications, most of which were made at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Some applications are made with the Residency Agent at Sharjah, and forwarded to the Agency at Bahrain for submission to the Political Re...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, and Marathi
Date Range:: 20 Dec 1934-27 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (349 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1866
Title:: ‘File B/10 I (30/12) Miscellaneous Complaints and claims at Sharjah'
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation and settlement of several debt recovery claims made against mainly Arab subjects of the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, by merchants of Dubai and Sharjah who are British Indian subjects. The main correspondents are the Political Agent at B...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Persian, and Sindhi
Date Range:: 25 Mar 1933-19 Jan 1941
Extent:: 1 file (340 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/2
Title:: Letters inward and outward
Scope & Content:: This file contains miscellaneous correspondence consisting primarily of letters between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent in Muscat. The subject matter of the correspondence covers a range of subjects, most of them pertaining to the resolution of commercial and le...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Gujarati
Date Range:: 1 Jan 1869-1 Oct 1869
Extent:: 1 file (486 folios)

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