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261. IOR/R/15/2/1764-1770

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)

262. IOR/R/15/2/2016 (Sub-sub-series)

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)

263. IOR/R/15/5/58 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/58 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 21: Coal Depot
Scope & Content:
The Coal Depot sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait and other British officials about the planning and construction of a British coal depot at Bandar Shweikh [Shwaykh].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1917
Extent:
1 file (193 folios)

264. IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 1: Agency Staff [policy]
Scope & Content:
The Agency Staff [policy] sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains employee details about locally recruited clerical staff working mainly in the British Political Agency in Kuwait.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1949
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

265. IOR/R/20/D/413-419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/20/D/413-419
Title:
Original documents: formerly kept in Government House, Aden
Scope & Content:
Statutory Instruments: Orders-in Council signed by Clerk to Privy Council (IOR/R/20/D/413/1-12); Royal Instructions signed and sealed by HM Queen Elizabeth II (IOR/R/20/D/414/1-5); treaties (IOR/R/20/D/415-419).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1962-1967
Extent:
22 files

266. IOR/R/15/2/50 (Sub-sub-series)

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)

267. IOR/R/15/2/59-61

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)

268. IOR/R/15/2/62 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/62 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 7 Customs
Scope & Content:
The records consist of one file only. This relates to improvements to the customs pier at Bahrain funded by a loan from Bahrain merchants. It includes a list of those merchants who made contributions.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

269. IOR/R/15/2/461-483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/461-483
Title:
File 11 Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain Political Agency confidential files on Saudi Arabia chiefly concern the relationship that Saudi Arabia and its Ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (also known as Ibn Sa‘ūd) had with British-administered Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial shaikhdoms. The British Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
23 files and volumes (714 folios)

270. IOR/R/15/2/616-625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616-625
Title:
File 22: Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
There are 10 surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the conduct of British relations with the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain and his subordinates at the British Residency Agency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
10 files (791 folios)