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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Qatif, Arabian Peninsula, Asia Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3745

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3745
Title:
Coll 30/31 'Hasa Coast; Entry of Hindu Merchants into Hasa; Attitude of Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence pertaining to the re-entry of Hindu merchants to al-Hasa and Qatif after a number of them had been ordered to leave in 1928. The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of letters that were...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1928-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B406

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B406
Title:
Question of British Consular Representation in El Hasa and Qatif
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the considerations of British representation in El Hasa [Al Hasa] and Qatif from 1904, with suggestions put forward by the Government of India and Sir Lionel Haworth, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It includes the reasons behind the need for represent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

3. IOR/R/15/2/95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/95
Title:
File 1/21 Bin Saud's relations with Baharnas at Qatif.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns relations between the King of Hejaz and Nadj [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (commonly referred to in the papers as Bin Saud or Ibn Saud) and members of the (Shiah) Baharna community at Qatif (also referred to in the papers as Katif and Catif [al-Qaṭīf]),...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1929-4 Jul 1930
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/461

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/461
Title:
11/1 TREATMENT OF BAHARNA IN HASA AND QATIF
Scope & Content:
This file contains two letters listed in the file notes at the rear of the file. The first, on folio 4, dated 30 March 1933, is from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, concern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-5 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/477

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/477
Title:
'PERMISSION FOR HINDU TRADERS TO VISIT QATIF'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the ability of Hindu traders to access the ports of Qatif [al-Qaṭīf] and Jubail [al-Jubayl] on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Correspondents include: Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1932-1 Jul 1932
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/478
Title:
11/18 EXCHANGE OF MAILS BETWEEN HASA & BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the exchange of postal services between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and covers: 1932-1933 (ff 2-30): the conveyance of post between Hasa [al-Aḥsā’] and Bahrain, as well as between Hasa and other foreign countries via Bahrain; 1934 (ff 31-43): Saudi Posts, Telegraph and Telephone ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1932-30 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/930
Title:
File 4/9 (2/7) "AL BAHRAIN" NEWSPAPER
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following a formal protest made by Ibn Sa’ud (King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia) to the Minister at the British Legation in Jeddah, about publication of an article in the newspaper Al Bahrain on 26 November 1942. The correspondence is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1942-21 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1498

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1498
Title:
‘File 16/5 Bahrain Agency: fortnightly political diaries’
Scope & Content:
Reports, submitted by the Political Agent (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) or the Indian Assistant at the Political Agency in the Political Agent’s absence, detailing proceedings at Bahrain and elsewhere. The reports are organised under various headings, as follows: arrivals and departures of sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1930-10 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)