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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:: File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:: 1 file (74 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/796
Title:: 30/2 THE ARAB LEAGUE.
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence relating to the establishment of the Arab League. a summary (ff 2-9) of a resolution of protocol of the Preparatory Committee for the Arab Congress published in the Journal d'Egypte in October 1944. a copy – provided by the British Ministry of Information Middl...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Oct 1944-15 Nov 1945
Extent:: 1 file (20 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/797
Title:: ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH LEGATION IN TRANSJORDAN.
Scope & Content:: This file consists of a Foreign Office circular noting that as a result of the Anglo-Transjordan Treaty [Treaty of London] of 22 March 1946, which recognised Transjordan as a fully independent state with Amir [Emir] Abdulla [‘Abdullāh] bin Hussein as sovereign, responsibility for British policy h...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Jul 1946
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/798
Title:: File 30/4 STUDY OF CURRENT MILITARY AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence (mainly telegrams) relating to arrangements for a conference in Basra involving senior inter-service officers from the Imperial Defence College to study the military and economic problems of the Middle East and their effect on strategy. Due to work relating to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Jul 1947-2 Mar 1950
Extent:: 1 file (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/799
Title:: ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP BRITISH TANKERS IN THE SUEZ CANAL
Scope & Content:: Correspondence discusses the possibility of an attempt to blow up British tankers in the Suez Canal by means of bringing up a small boat alongside. The Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf communicated this to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent, Bahrain, and R M Brown, C...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Aug 1947-18 Aug 1947
Extent:: 1 file (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/800
Title:: File 30/7 Review of Middle Eastern Economic and Social Policy
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence relating to the submission of information on the Persian Gulf states for a review of Middle East economic and social policy prepared by the Middle East Secretariat of the Foreign Office. The file includes: notes (ff 6-9) on Bahrain compiled by Herbert George Ja...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Aug 1949-25 Feb 1950
Extent:: 1 file (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/804
Title:: File 31/6 (4/7 II) EDUCATION OF YOUNGER MEMBERS OF AL KHALIFAH
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence concerning the education of the younger members of the Al Khalifah Ruling Family. Topics discussed include arrangements for judicial training in Palestine and the practicalities of starting a degree course at either Stanford University in the United States of Amer...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Feb 1944-1 Aug 1950
Extent:: 1 file (157 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/805
Title:: File 31/7 HEALTH OF THE RULER OF BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the failing health of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and arrangements for him to spend time in India for recuperation. The main correspondents are Lieutenant-Colonel Tren...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 27 Oct 1936-20 Feb 1942
Extent:: 1 file (112 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/806
Title:: File 31/8 File No:- 1-B/7(a) Major Head: Administration. Sub: Head:- General. Subject:- Land Tenure in Bahrain. Sub file. MUNICIPAL MEAT MARKET & SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about land tenure in Manamah, specifically over the municipal meat market and slaughterhouse. The majority of the correspondence is between the Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, Political Agent, Bahrain, and the President, Manama municipality, as well as Shaik...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Sep 1933-28 Oct 1933
Extent:: 1 file (40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/807
Title:: File 31/8 1 b/7. AL KHALIFAH PROPERTY IN BAHRAIN. (Municipal Meat Market and Slaughter House)
Scope & Content:: The file begins with a letter and note from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, to the British Political Agent, Bahrain, explaining the issue concerning disputes over landownership in Bahrain based on the practice of Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa of giving out scrap...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 19 Nov 1931-7 Jun 1941
Extent:: 1 file (207 folios)

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