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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/84
Title:: File 1/13 I Major Head:- Political. Sub:- Head:- Persian pretensions to Bahrain.
Scope & Content:: The file concerns Persian claims to Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein). The correspondence is mainly between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Bahrain. Other correspondents include the British Consular Agent, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and the Adviser to the Governm...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Mar 1922-10 Dec 1931
Extent:: 1 volume (341 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/121
Title:: File 8/2 Public petitions etc. Letters to Major Daly (P.A.) thanking him for his interest in Bahrain affairs
Scope & Content:: The file contains a number of petitions (or 'madbatas') written by Bahraini merchants and other Bahrain inhabitants of native, Persian, Nejdi and Indian origin, praising the actions of the Bahrain Political Agent, Major Clive Daly. The original petitions in Arabic and Persian are included, along...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 7 Jul 1921-3 Jul 1924
Extent:: 1 file (34 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/124
Title:: File 8/7 Arms traffic; arms convention; prevention of slavery
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence relating to arms trafficking and slavery in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence regarding arms trafficking takes up a small proportion of the file. It includes a printed copy of the British Government's Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunitio...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Oct 1922-10 Jun 1928
Extent:: 1 volume (184 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/149
Title:: File 1/A/23 I Activities of the Persian Navy
Scope & Content:: The file concerns the seizure of, or interference with, Arab merchant vessels (dhows, jolly-boats, booms) by ships of the Iranian Navy, and the Iranian (often referred to as the Persian) authorities. The pretext was generally the prevention of smuggling. The correspondence is mainly between the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 8 May 1933-5 Nov 1937
Extent:: 1 volume (254 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/173
Title:: File 1/A/48 A Complaint against the Food Controller by Messrs. Hirjimal Dhamanmal.
Scope & Content:: The file concerns complaints made by Hirjimal Dhamanmal, and other Bahrain merchants, about the Food Controller, Bahrain (Captain Arthur Charles Byard; later Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier), who was responsible for implementing food control policies (e.g. rationing and import controls) in Bahra...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: Nov 1939-27 May 1944
Extent:: 1 file (119 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/562
Title:: File No. 17/9 MAILS BETWEEN BAHRAIN & IRAN
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Agent at Bahrain (Reginald George Evelin Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain, Secretary to the External Affairs Department of the Government of In...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Sep 1937-8 May 1943
Extent:: 1 file (203 folios)

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)

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