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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1817
Title:: File 36/107 Prohibition Regarding Sale of Service Property
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the sale of surplus military equipment (including vehicles) and other supplies by British military forces in Bahrain and Sharjah after the end of the Second World War. These supplies were purchased by the Government of Bahrain and a number of other p...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Feb 1946-10 Dec 1947
Extent:: 1 file (222 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1819
Title:: ‘M. Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam versus Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises court papers, including affidavits and exhibits (copies of correspondence, telegrams, invoices, transhipment notes) used in support of an arbitration case brought by M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika, against Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros. of Bahrain. The case was heard...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Nov 1947-15 Aug 1950
Extent:: 1 file (124 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1820
Title:: ‘Camping grounds at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises maps and notes prepared in anticipation of the stopping off at Bahrain of Indian Army regiments that were part of Indian Expeditionary Force D, which travelled from Bombay to Basra in October 1914, and went on to fight in the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War. The r...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914
Extent:: 1 file (20 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1821
Title:: ‘Foreign Office budget for the year 1949-50 and six monthly expenditure etc.’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises papers relating to the accounts (actual expenditure and estimated budget) of the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Sharjah: a copy of a circular written by Ernest Bevin, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 18 July 1946, requesting returns from overseas agencies ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Jul 1946-30 Nov 1948
Extent:: 1 file (50 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1822
Title:: ‘Foreign Office circulars. Particulars regarding temporary officers’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises copies of circulars and other papers received at the Bahrain Political Agency from the Foreign Office (FO), relating to the administration of the Foreign Service at home and abroad. The file is arranged in three parts: The first part (ff 2-23) is headed ‘Establishment’ and co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Jul 1946-26 Jan 1948
Extent:: 1 file (135 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1823
Title:: ‘Bahrain Church File (correspondence with Bishop in Jerusalem)’
Scope & Content:: The file comprises correspondence relating to the establishment of, and raising of funds for the construction of, an Anglican church in Manama, Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior); the Bishop of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Oct 1943-23 Jul 1947
Extent:: 1 file (57 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1824
Title:: File A 1/J I Correspondence of the Adviser
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers and correspondence sent between the Political Agency and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) between 1935 and 1945, relating to civil and criminal court cases in Bahrain. The cases raised include property theft (folios 26-29), disputes o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 20 Mar 1935-31 Dec 1945
Extent:: 1 file (102 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1825
Title:: File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to around sixty cases, involving slaves who have applied for manumission at the Agency in Bahrain. Copies of correspondence relating to many of these cases can also be found in the following Bushire Residency files: 'File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (343 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1826
Title:: File A/2 II Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications
Scope & Content:: The majority of the file is correspondence relating to about forty-eight manumission applications, most of which were made at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Some applications are made with the Residency Agent at Sharjah, and forwarded to the Agency at Bahrain for submission to the Political Re...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, and Marathi
Date Range:: 20 Dec 1934-27 Sep 1939
Extent:: 1 file (349 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1827
Title:: File A/2 III Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and other papers related to slavery, received by or sent from the Political Agency in Bahrain. The majority of the papers in the file are related to manumission applications (over fifty in total), made by slaves in Bahrain or Muscat. In most instances, the slaves...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 Jun 1937-3 Jun 1939
Extent:: 1 file (356 folios)

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