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21. IOR/R/15/2/100-115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/100-115
Title:
File 5 Personalities
Scope & Content:
This Confidential subject file contains papers relating to vaerious personalities active in Bahrain in the 1920s and early 1930s, including: ‘Abd Allāh bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah; ‘Abd al-‘Azīz and ‘Abd Allāh al-Quṣaybī; Muḥammad Sharīf bin Ḥājī Quṭb al-Dīn Awāzī; Muḥammad ‘Alī Nāsir; Jāsim Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1921-1933
Extent:
16 files (696 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/2/627-629

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627-629
Title:
File 23 Intelligence
Scope & Content:
The Intelligence files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain records of confidential information passed by various sources to the Political Agent, Bahrain. Most of the information is political intelligence relating to Saudi Arabia. There are only three files: reports of the activities of a n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1947
Extent:
3 files (200 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/2/1049-1079

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1049-1079
Title:
File 2: Medical
Scope & Content:
The 31 files forming the 'Medical' subject files were produced by the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Medical' subject files mainly contain correspondence between personnel of the Victoria Memorial Hospital at Bahrain, the Adviser to the Government at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1917-1951
Extent:
31 files (3,698 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/1595-1630

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)

25. IOR/R/15/2/73-95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/73-95
Title:
File 1 Political
Scope & Content:
The Political files of the Political Agency, Bahrain for this period deal with important political developments in the Persian Gulf affecting Bahrain itself and wider British interests in the region. The principal topic covered in the papers is relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1915-1937
Extent:
23 files and volumes (4748 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/2/2017-2022

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)

27. IOR/R/15/2/294-341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/294-341
Title:
File 8 Reports and Returns
Scope & Content:
The files consist of collated periodicals produced by various military and governmental offices and containing intelligence on a wide range of subjects, all of which were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files include the related correspondence. The geographic focus of the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1922-1950
Extent:
48 files (6052 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/2/853-857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/853-857
Title:
File 36: United States Interests
Scope & Content:
This Sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of the United States of America in the Gulf. The topics discussed are as follows: the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/853); foreign consular activities, primarily the US' desire for the establishment of a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and German
Date Range:
1933-1949
Extent:
5 files (511 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/2/896-898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/896-898
Title:
File 41 Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to arms control, and incidents of arms theft or arms smuggling, occurring at Bahrain and elsewhere along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf: arms licenses for the nakhudas of boats sailing on the Arab coast of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1949
Extent:
3 files (207 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/2/121-126

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)