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31. IOR/R/15/2/1170-1199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1170-1199
Title:
File 5: Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial files of the Political Agency, Bahrain for the period 1926-50 reflect the work of the Political Agent, Bahrain as Notary Public, Judge, and Magistrate. Certain members of the Political Agent's staff also held judicial powers. The files fall into a number of groups: IOR/R/15/2/1170-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Urdu
Date Range:
1926-1950
Extent:
30 files (6553 folios)

32. 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)

33. 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)

34. 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)

35. 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)

36. 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)

37. 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)

38. 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)

39. IOR/R/15/2/941-944

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/941-944
Title:
File 22 Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The Trucial Coast subject files from 1951 contain correspondence and other papers relating to affairs on the Trucial Coast; more specifically affairs at Kalba and Fujairah, and the islands of Abū Mūsá and Tunb. The principal correspondents across these files are: the Political Resident in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951
Extent:
4 files (132 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/1694 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1694 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 25: Qatar
Scope & Content:
The English Office subject file contains correspondence regarding various enquiries made by the British Admiralty between 1929 and 1938 regarding flags flown by the Shaikh of Qatar, as well as by the sheikhs of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1929-1938
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)