File 1/16 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Sunni-Shiah relations.
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The file concerns relations between the Sunni and Shiah communities in Bahrain. The correspondence is mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, but the file also contains correspondence with Shaikh Hamad, Deputy Governor of Bahrain [Ḥamad bin ‘Ī...
File 5/7 Mohammad Ali Nasir alias Sayed Ahmad, Egyptian
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This file contains correspondence between Captain George Leslie Mallam, acting British Political Agent at Bahrain and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. These papers concern the case an Egyptian schoolteacher resident in Bahra...
File 3/11 Creation of Post of Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Charles Mylles, Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Abadan; R Holmes, Assistant Surgeon, Victoria Memorial Hospital; R I Hallows; C R Latimer; Secretary to th...
This file contains correspondence sent by the Political Agency at Bahrain to J G Ballie, Vice-Consul at Bushire [Bushehr], regarding Khan Bahadur Abdul Latif bin Abdul Jalil [Khān Bahādur ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl], former Director of Customs at Kuwait. The letters mention why the forme...
File 8/25 Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Diaries
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The file contains fortnightly news reports on the Trucial Coast, compiled by the Political Officer or Residency Agent at Sharjah. Included are the reports from late October 1939 to early March 1942, when they stop, resuming again at the start of 1945 until the end of 1946. Each report was sent ...
The file contains weekly reports on the affairs of Saudi Arabia, compiled by the Political Agent at Bahrain and distributed to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Political Agency at Kuwait. The reports, marked secret, consist of brief summaries of intelligence gathered...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Gulf regarding imports to Bahrain of rice from India and sugar. There is also mention of correspondence regarding import of vehicles (not included in the file).
File 9/5 Traffic in cultured pearls on Trucial Coast
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The file contains correspondence, in English and Arabic, between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Residency Agent at Sharjah. The correspondence refers to merchants mixing Japanese cultured pearls with real pearls in the Trucial Coast, thereby damaging the reputation of the industry with t...
The file contains statements of shipments of gold, silver, jewellery and currency from Bahrain, signed by the Director of Customs and Port Officer at Bahrain and sent to the Political Agent at Bahrain for information. The file also contains applications to the Political Agent at Bahrain for lic...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the manager of Gray Mackenzie & Co, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain concerning measures to contrast pilfering of goods from ships.
