Archive Reference (shelfmark): IOR/R / Level: [38] SubSubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1758-1763
Title:: File 31 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:: The six files forming the 'Books and Publications' subject files were produced by the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Books and Publications' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, British and international print...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1933-1950
Extent:: 6 files (1446 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1764-1770
Title:: File 33 Wireless/Telegraph
Scope & Content:: The Wireless/Telegraph files of the Political Agency, Bahrain fall into two main groups. The first group (IOR/R/15/2/1764-1768) concerns the work of the Wireless (later Radio) Station, Bahrain in the period 1926-50. The station was initially run by the Indo-European Telegraph Department (a dep...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1926-1950
Extent:: 7 files (598 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1773-1817
Title:: File 36: War: Export and Imports
Scope & Content:: The 'War: Exports and Imports' sub-sub-series contains files related to the Political Agency in Bahrain's regulation of all imports/exports in to and out of Bahrain and the broader Persian Gulf region during and after the Second World War. As such, the files in this sub-sub-series primarily co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1940-1950
Extent:: 45 files (6,535 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1819-1823
Title:: Un-numbered Files
Scope & Content:: The un-numbered files comprise correspondence and papers covering a miscellaneous range of subjects: a court case, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain in 1950, relating to a legal dispute between M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam, and Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1819); de...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914-1950
Extent:: 5 files (387 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1998-2015
Title:: Confidential Files
Scope & Content:: The Confidential Files sub-sub-series contains files related to the Shaikhdoms along the Trucial Coast, primarily Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Ras al-Khaimah. These files discuss the following topics: political developments in Ras al-Khaimah, notably regarding the actions of its ruler, Shaikh Sul...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1950
Extent:: 19 files (3,964 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/2016 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: Vernacular Office File
Scope & Content:: The records consist of one volume only: IOR/R/15/2/2016: 'File B/17 Kalba - Affairs regarding.' This a file produced by the Vernacular Office of the Political Agency, Bahrain, which is separate from the main run of Vernacular Office papers (IOR/R/15/2/1824-1980). The volume concerns political af...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1937
Extent:: 1 volume (279 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/2017-2022
Title:: Registers of legal documents
Scope & Content:: This sub-sub-series consists of registers of legal papers deposited at the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers include land sales, tenancy agreements, marriage certificates, contracts of employment, powers of attorney, and last wills and testaments. Many of the documents are in Arabic without ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:: 1913-1953
Extent:: 6 files (1199 folios)

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