‘File 2/7 II ANNUAL RETURNS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES’
Scope & Content:
The file contains details of four births and one death among British and former British Indian subjects in Kuwait, as registered by the Political Agent for Kuwait and included in his 1947 annual return of births, deaths and Christian marriages among British and other European, Indian and Pakista...
‘File 2/22 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (3L) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Sur.’
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The file contains correspondence related to the possibility of establishing a landing ground at Sur for the Royal Air Force (RAF), which was to be within easy access of the town. The proposal was dropped later owing to the Sultan’s unwillingness and the risk of creating trouble at Sur. The file ...
File [11/4] Salute by H.H. The Sultan To Political Officers When Leaving and Returning to Muscat
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This file contains correspondence between Britain's Political Agency in Muscat and the Council of Ministers of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman regarding arrangements for the firing of a gun salute upon the return of the Political Agent to Muscat. The correspondence is in Arabic accompanied by En...
The volume contains correspondence related to individual cases of the enslavement and trade of Baluchis from the Makran coast and Karachi, to the Trucial and Oman Coast, and in particular to Dubai. The correspondence is predominantly between Government representatives in Karachi/Sind, the Persia...
The file contains correspondence regarding the finances of Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa and Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the activities of Khalifa bin Hamad (who visited King Faysal in Iraq), Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s desire to expel three tribal individuals from Bahrain, the idea for the formation of a...
The documents contained in this file are correspondence related to the Dowasir tribe. In 1923, approximately half of the members of the Dowasir, a Sunni tribe who had been resident in Bahrain since 1845, left the island and moved to Dammam on the mainland. The documents in this file discuss th...
The file relates to a proposed visit by Sheikh Hamad bin Isa [Sheikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], eldest son of of the Ruler of Bahrein [Bahrain], Sheikh Isa [Sheikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah] to India 'for recreation, and also for seeing civilization and material progress'. The papers consist ...
This file concerns the request by Reverend Father Gabriel [Fleming?], a Roman Catholic priest at Bahrain, to visit Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] for religious services within the premises of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). The request is subsequently refused by the Saudi Government Representativ...
The volume contains covering letters and correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, the British Consulate at Basra, the India Office in London, and the Political Residency in the Gulf; concerning the transmission and despatch of mail, packets, secret documents and cypher...
The file comprises a copy of a single letter, dated 16 May 1942, from the Political Resident, Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, to Hugh Weightman, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department. In the letter Hay requests that one of the five weekly air services cur...
