'14/15 I, Succession at Dubai; 14/253 I, notice issued by Shaikh of Dubai'
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Most of the correspondence concerns succession at Dubai: Letter from Residency Agent Shargah [Sharjah] No. 13, 10 April 1894 informing Resident of death of Shaikh Rashid bin Maktoom [Rashid bin Maktum]. Letter from Maktoom bin Hasher [Maktum bin Hashar] of 12 April 94 informing Resident of his h...
File 19/43 (C 1) Bahrein. (i) Shaikh Hamed recognised as successor to Shaikh Esa. (ii)Customs
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This file contains correspondence related to Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa's request that the British Government in India formally recognise his eldest son, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa as his heir apparent. The file contains direct correspondence between Shaikh Isa and British officials (Ara...
‘File 19/98 II, 128 (C 10) Naphta Spring Near Halul Island + Miscellaneous Correspondence + Viceroy’s Interview 1901. 19/98 II Asphalt Deposit’
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The file contains - in the following order - correspondence between the Residency in Bushire and the Agency in Bahrain regarding a debt owed by Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa of Bahrain to a Mr. Francis; discussions concerning the dispatch of a gun ship to Katif (Qatif) and a proposed survey of t...
File 19/165 I (C 19) Reforms: printed copy correspondence forwarded by Political Resident to Political Agent, Bahrain, for reference
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The file contains copies of correspondence between the Political Residency in Bushire and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence discusses the rationale for replacing Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa with his son Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, details of proposed social and economic refor...
File 53/57 I (D 35) Jariyah [Jahra] Affair and Boundary Dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait
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This file contains correspondence regarding the conflict between Shaikh Sālim al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ of Kuwait and Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] of Nejd [Najd]. As well as correspondence between British officials on...
File 61/26 I (D 84) Exemption from transit duty at Bahrain on foodstuffs, etc., imported by the Hejaz government
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The correspondence in the volume relates to a request by the Hejaz Government to import 32,000 sacks of rice from Karachi via Bahrain, for use by the Hejaz army and government. Most of the items in the volume are telegrams sent between the British minister in Jeddah, the Political Agent in Bahrai...
Treaties and Undertakings etc in force between the British Government and the Rulers of Bahrain, 1820-1914
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Government of India Foreign and Political Department documents: three identical copies, one (volume three) enclosed in a red cover. Volume two is inscribed 'Received under Foreign and Political Department endorsement 147EA of 22.6.16'. The documents contain transcripts of fifteen treaties and und...
File E-15. Khan Sahib Syed Siddiq Hasan, Indian Assistant, Bahrain, on Deputation to Riyadh and Mecca
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, British representative in Jeddah, as well as with the Civil Commissioner and High Commissioner at Baghdad. The correspondence concern the deputation of Si...
‘File 7/24 Lease of R.A.F. land to A.I.O.C. [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company]’
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The papers in the file relate to a request made by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [AIOC] to lease land belonging to the Air Ministry at Qadhibia [Qudaibiya], on the outskirts of Manama. A decision on the lease was deferred by the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Gallo...
File 18/19 Conferment of UK Nationality on Certain Indian and Pakistani Residents in the Persian Gulf
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The file consists of a letter from William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to R E Ellison, Political Agent, Muscat, dated 19 February 1949 asking him to establish how many members of the Hindu community in Muscat had been resident there for over two generations, and whether ce...
