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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/199-703
Title:: Political Residency, Bushire: subject files
Scope & Content:: The records consist of subject files of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are arranged as follows: IOR/R/15/1/199-234: File 5: Slave Trade, 1892-1943; IOR/R/15/1/235-236: File 9: Arms and Ammunition, 1910-1932; IOR/R/15/1/237-238: File 13: Miscellaneous, 1912-19...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Italian, Kanarese, Marathi, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1871-1948
Extent:: 506 files and volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/384-388
Title:: File 26: Arabistan and Luristan
Scope & Content:: The volumes contain correspondence, reports, maps, and memoranda relating to British interests in the Arabistan [Khūzestān] and Luristan [Lorestān] provinces of south west Persia following their political and commercial penetration of the region in the late nineteenth-century. The documents cove...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1905-1946
Extent:: 5 volumes (1073 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/646
Title:: 86/1 X Kuwait Oil (D 131)
Scope & Content:: The file primarily contains correspondence between the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ), the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Dickson and Gerald Simpson DeGaury), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle and Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (John C...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 24 Apr 1935-13 May 1937
Extent:: 1 file (240 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/709-748
Title:: Political Residency and Political Agency, Bahrain reference libraries: miscellaneous prints and publications
Scope & Content:: The records consist of miscellaneous official prints and publications from the reference libraries of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946 Bahrain), and the Political Agency, Bahrain. The records include Persian Gulf Administration Reports for the years 1883-1947; gazetteers of the Persia...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1856-1954
Extent:: 50 files and volumes (5023 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/749-758
Title:: Political Residency, Bushire: further additional papers
Scope & Content:: The records consist of unrelated miscellaneous additional records of the Political Residency, Bushire (from 1946, Bahrain). The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/749: Oil Concessions, 1933 - c. 1964; IOR/R/15/1/750: Government of Bahrain Administration Report for 1926-1937, and Annual Reports ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1884-c 1964
Extent:: 14 files and volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/752-757
Title:: Correspondence in Arabic and English between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah
Scope & Content:: This file mainly contains letters and instructions sent from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah in the years 1883-1914, 1921, 1924-1927 and 1930, as well as a ledger book of drafts of letters sent from the Residency Agent to the Pol...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1883-1930
Extent:: 6 files (1206 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/50 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File W War
Scope & Content:: The Confidential subject file contains correspondence concerning the anti-British revolt of the Tangsiri and Qashqai tribes, headed by Ra’īs ‘Alī Dalvārī under the influence of Wilhelm Wassmuss, and the aftermath of the attack on the British Residency at Bushire on 12 July 1915.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1915-1918
Extent:: 1 file (203 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/59-61
Title:: File 5 British Protection
Scope & Content:: This Confidential subject file contains papers related to British protection in Bahrain. Covered in these files are the establishment of a Christian cemetery in Manamah in 1901 and its upkeep; Bahraini shipping vessels and the Tangistan blockade in 1916; and the issue of a young Iraqi Jewish woma...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1901-1920
Extent:: 3 files (154 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/73-95
Title:: File 1 Political
Scope & Content:: The Political files of the Political Agency, Bahrain for this period deal with important political developments in the Persian Gulf affecting Bahrain itself and wider British interests in the region. The principal topic covered in the papers is relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1915-1937
Extent:: 23 files and volumes (4748 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/86
Title:: File 1/14 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Retirement of Shaikh Isa & Najdi-Persian Riots of May 1923.
Scope & Content:: The file concerns intercommunal and religious rioting in Bahrain between Persians and Najdis (also referred to as Nejdis), which resulted in the deaths of a number of people. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident, Bahrain (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly) and the (acting)...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 10 May 1923-6 Jul 1923
Extent:: 1 volume (114 folios)

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