File 6/92 Bahrain Municipality: town planning - bye laws
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other documents relating to town planning in Manama, Bahrain, including: correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Government of India (External Affairs Department), and Adviser to the Governm...
‘File 12/20 Correspondence regarding ships articles deposited with the Agency’
Scope & Content:
The file chiefly comprises letters received by the Political Agency from Gray, Mackenzie and Company, enclosing articles from vessels at Bahrain, for endorsement by the Agency. Most of the letters have dated handwritten notes, usually made by the Assistant Political Agent (A.P.A.), confirming tha...
The file contains several Government of India memoranda dating from 1939 to 1941, mainly from the Labour Department and the Office of the Controller of Printing and Stationery, India. The memoranda stress the need for economy in the use of paper and other stationery by all government employees d...
‘File 16/27 Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous Assistance to Government Officials’
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Correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency, and dealing with a miscellaneous range of day-to-day matters: arrangements amongst British officials and shipping agents in the Persian Gulf for the delivery, forwarding and receipt of letters, packages, furniture, motor vehicles, and other i...
‘File 16/32-II Miscellaneous. Correspondence with the Residency, Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence exchanged between British offices in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the Persian Gulf Political Residency or British Consulate in Bushire, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The papers deal with matters of a routine nature, including: the order of goods from suppliers and me...
‘File 16/42 II Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to arrangements for visits to Bahrain, or passages through Bahrain, by various individuals, including: Harbans Lal Jerath, Director of Posts and Telegraphs at Karachi, on an official visit in late 1946 and early 1947. Details of the visit, including a tou...
‘File 16/52 Correspondence regarding building of Catholic Church in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence (in English and Arabic) exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) and the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah) dated 1939, relating to the latter’s agreement to provide a piece of land at the edge of Manama town for the construction of a Cat...
‘16/59 Correspondence regarding Government of India Gazette.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reorganisation and distribution of the Gazette of India. The file contains a circular letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, dated 18 April 1944, detailing sections of the Gazette and its sale and annual subscription prices (folio 3). The fi...
File 20/5 CEREMONIALS AND HONOURS. Honours, Titles & Decorations
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the grant of titles and badges to various persons in the Gulf. For instance, the title ‘Khan Bahadur’ was given to, among others, Khan Sahib Abdur Rahman Zaiyani, an Arab merchant, and to Mirza Ismail Barduli, an interpreter at the Agency in Muscat. The...
File 21/29 Proposal regarding aeroplane for Political Agent, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes and correspondence relating to the proposal for the purchase or loan of an aircraft for the use of the Political Agent in Bahrain. The correspondence is between: Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain; Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persi...
