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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/121-126
Title:: File 8 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The Miscellaneous files cover a variety of topics arising in Bahrain during the 1920s; the response to political reforms carried out by the Political Agent Major Clive Daly in the early 1920s; challenges facing Bahrain's pearling industry, specifically declining profitability and pressures for it...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1921-1931
Extent:: 6 files and volumes (560 folios)

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/15/2/557-572
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/15/2/766-794
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/15/2/1368-1390
Title:: File 12: Shipping
Scope & Content:: The Shipping subject files comprise correspondence and papers relating to commercial shipping at Bahrain and in the wider Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the files are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; representatives of the Government of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1924-1950
Extent:: 23 volumes and files (2293 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594
Title:: File 16: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1917-1954
Extent:: 102 files (13,197 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1595-1630
Title:: File 17: Government Property
Scope & Content:: This sub-sub-series largely relates to the acquisition of stationery, tools, materials, supplies, and motor vehicles for the Political Agency, Bahrain. The files concerning stationery document the purchase of items such as rubber stamps, notepaper, envelopes, and court fee stamps. Other files co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1926-1950
Extent:: 36 files (6567 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1663-1675
Title:: File 20: Ceremonials and Celebrations
Scope & Content:: There are thirteen surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from 1914 to 1950, about Celebrations and Ceremonials. Files IOR/R/15/2/1663-1665 contain correspondence regarding the celebrations arranged every year by the Political Agency, Bahrain, for both the King’s Birthday and Ne...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1914-1950
Extent:: 13 files (1,556 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1846
Title:: File A/8 Correspondence regarding extradition of persons
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to four separate extradition requests in the Persian Gulf region, sent to the Bahrain Political Agency. In the first case Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, sought the extradition of a Bahraini subject alleged to have misappropriated mo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1934-28 Jun 1950
Extent:: 1 file (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/20-23
Title:: File 9: [Claims]
Scope & Content:: The four surviving Claims files contain correspondence, witness statements and other related documents. The first and second files concern the investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil offences in Kuwait, falling within the jurisdiction of the British Political Agent for Kuwait. In mos...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1908-1930
Extent:: 4 files (579 folios)

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