File 10/23 Corr. re. certain Japanese cotton singlets imported into Bahrain by Messrs Trikamdas and Co, and shown as "Made in England"
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Correspondence between the Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain (Meredith Worth); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire (Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Department of Overseas Trade, London; the firm of C Trikamdas and Company, Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer,...
‘File 15/8-I Rules & Regulations General Provident Fund & Postal policies etc – Circulars received from the G. of India’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices issued mainly by the Finance Department and the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues Department. These were regularly forwarded by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Political Agen...
‘File 15/10 Vol. II Rules & Regulations:- (i) Fundamental Rules. Corrections and Amendment – Audit instructions: (ii) Civil Service Regulations:-’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices issued mainly by the Finance Department and the Home Department. These were regularly forwarded by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others for information and guid...
‘File 15/10 – Vol. III Rules and Regulations:- (i) F.R. (ii) C.S.R. Corrections and Amendments Audit Instructions’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices that were issued mainly by the Finance Department in 1936. There are also circulars from the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues; the Auditor-General in India and the Home Department. The circulars conta...
This file consists of letters related to several general subjects of the East African-Arabian Slave trade; domestic Omani politics; general affairs of trade. Of note are circular letters from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Trucial Coast Shaikhs and the Sultan of Oman on their resp...
Vol 210: 1856/57 Persia; General and Miscellaneous
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The file contains letters inwards and letters outwards from the Residency in the Persian Gulf, based at Bushire; the incumbent Resident is James Felix Jones. The subject matter of the correspondence concerns affairs in Persia; a proposed telegraph extension from India to Constantinople via the Pe...
‘File 5/6 I Brussels Conference and general rules and procedure on slave traffic’
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Correspondence related to the distribution of the text of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 throughout the Persian Gulf region. The English version of the Act is on folios 32-37. William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Government of India in Bombay, sent Adelbert Talbot (Political ...
File 5/168 VII Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
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The volume contains in excess of 120 manumission statements, taken down by the Residency Agent ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi) at Sharjah between July 1938 and June 1939. Correspondence accompanying the statements sent by al-Razzaq includes details of the appearance of slaves as an indication of possibl...
File 19/109 III (C 22) Bahrain - Relations with Foreign Powers, Etc
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This file contains correspondence concerning relations between Bahrain and other foreign powers, primarily Persia. The correspondence discusses the following topics: Agitation in the Persian press regarding the alleged oppression of Persians in Bahrain. This includes examples of this type of r...
File 19/194 (C 36) Proposal that Political Agent, Bahrain, should be Consul at Qatif
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A file that records details of a proposal to appoint the Political Agent in Bahrain as Consul in Qatif. The idea is not approved by the Government of India or Whitehall, primarily due to fears that such a move would provoke Bin Saud to make a counter-request for a Consul of his own to be appoint...
