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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/768
Title:: File 29/18 II Tea and coffee: Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:: This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 28 Mar 1944-24 Mar 1946
Extent:: 1 file (223 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/790
Title:: ‘File 29/30 Civil requirements: miscellaneous items from India (pepper, spices, etc)’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about the supply of various essential commodities from India, by sea from Bombay and Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, during the Second World War (1939-1945). Several commodities are mentioned including spi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 9 Sep 1943-25 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (240 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1372
Title:: ‘File 12/5 Wrecks of sailing boats and vessels in the sea and salvages’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, statements made by nakhudas, bills and receipts, all related to incidents in which native vessels were wrecked or damaged in the Persian Gulf (and chiefly in the waters around Bahrain) usually as a result either of storms or collision with another vessel. The co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 17 Nov 1929-12 Apr 1945
Extent:: 1 file (282 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1384
Title:: ‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows: correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the I...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1943-23 Jun 1949
Extent:: 1 file (28 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1492
Title:: File 16/00 Letters of good offices
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding providing letters of good offices. These were sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Residency Agent in Sharjah, merchants and rulers of the Gulf. The sender would raise a case to the recipient and ask for his help mostly in mediat...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1928-5 Nov 1931
Extent:: 1 file (136 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1518
Title:: ‘File 16/23 [I] Miscellaneous. Payment of Military pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and other correspondence regarding.’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments from the Bahrain Treasury, including to former employees of the State Police in Bahrain. The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Pe...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1927-15 Dec 1934
Extent:: 1 file (187 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1519
Title:: ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Hugh Weightman); the Controller (or Deputy Control...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: Jan 1935-11 Apr 1940
Extent:: 1 file (239 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1520
Title:: ‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, and Tamil
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1938-19 Mar 1945
Extent:: 1 file (366 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1555
Title:: ‘File 16/45 Case of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence, statements and other papers relating to incidents of theft occurring at the Political Agency: in June 1933, the theft of money from drawers in an Agency office (ff 2-9); in March 1934, another incident of money stolen from Agency cash boxes (ff 10-11); in August 1937, an incident...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 10 Jun 1933-25 Nov 1947
Extent:: 1 file (29 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1626
Title:: File 17/25 Stationery purchased from firms
Scope & Content:: This file consists largely of correspondence concerning stationery supplied to the Political Agency, Bahrain. Items ordered include rubber stamps, notepaper, envelopes, and printed forms. Much of the correspondence relates to the details of orders and the granting of export permits (from the Gov...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 7 Feb 1942-8 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (185 folios)

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