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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/15/2/1626
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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1663
Title:: File 20/1- Vol: III Ceremonial and Celebrations: New Year's and King's Birthday's Celebrations.
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers regarding the celebration of the King's Birthday and Christmas and New Year’s Day between 1935-1939. Christmas and New Year’s Day were announced as an official holiday at the Agency in Bahrain. The King's Birthday was celebrated in June each year, but was not an official...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 31 Oct 1935-4 Jun 1939
Extent:: 1 file (283 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/15/2/1693
Title:: File 23/1 Acquisition of property in Bahrain by Shaikh Muhammad ibn `Isa Al Khalifa; Hindu Bathing Pool
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Political Agent (Colonel Barrett, from November 1927 to April 1929), representatives of the Hindu community in Manama, and the Khalifa ruling family. The correspondence refers to the ownership and use of freshwater pools (referred to as chauch...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Nov 1928-6 May 1929
Extent:: 1 file (14 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1845
Title:: File A/7 Miscellaneous correspondence with Muhammerah
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to two separate matters, one dating from 1932 and the other from 1940. The first matter relates to a financial claim being made by an Indian tailor residing in Bahrain, against an Anglo-Persian [Anglo-Iranian] Oil Company employee from Abadan in Persia [I...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 18 Aug 1932-10 Feb 1940
Extent:: 1 file (24 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/15/2/1847
Title:: Miscellaneous Papers Regarding Judicial Matters
Scope & Content:: This file concerns a request for assistance to the Political Agency, Bahrain, from the Adlieyah of Nasriyah Ahwaz in a judicial relief case. The documents (in Arabic, Persian and English) concern a case filed by Rustam bin Ali [Rustam bin ‘Alī], a Persian resident of Bahrain, against Mohd. bin G...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 2 Jun 1931-23 Jun 1931
Extent:: 1 file (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1858
Title:: 'File No. B/1 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh and Notables of Qatar.’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of petitions and letters mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Ruler of Qatar. The two exchanged petitions on behalf of locals from Bahrain and Qatar respectively. The petitions were mainly regarding claims of debts, properties, stolen b...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 4 Jan 1926-8 Jan 1944
Extent:: 1 file (150 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1860
Title:: File B/3 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh, the Notables and the Political Agent, Kuwait
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to several complaint cases investigated by the Political Agent, Bahrain. They include: the desertion of his wife by a Kuwaiti subject in 1930; the recovery of money owing to a divorced wife by her ex-husband in 1931; the alleged seizure of goods from the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1930-8 Dec 1949
Extent:: 1 file (100 folios)

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