File 26/106 IV (F 48) Arabistan and Luristan Miscellaneous
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The volume contains correspondence pertaining to British interests and activities in the region of Arabistan in Persia. The correspondents include Eardley Peel, Vice Consul at Ahwaz, Percy Cox, High Commissioner at Baghdad, Cecil Lincoln, Acting Consul for Arabistan at Mohammerah [Korramshahr], ...
The volume comprises submissions of monthly statements of the revenue and expenditure of the Muscat State for the period April 1932 to March 1933; and quarterly submissions of statements on the progress of loans and debts, along with the cash balance of the Muscat Treasury for the same period. A...
The volume contains correspondence and other papers relating to the financial affairs of the Muscat State Government, including quarterly submissions of statements of revenue and expenditure, progress of loans and debt, and the cash balance of the Muscat treasury, for the period between July 193...
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident at Bushire, Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Sheikh of Qatar, in regard to the oil concession and the beginning of the oil explorat...
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, the Political Resident at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the cancellation, on 27 Nov 1932, of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession, because APOC was not acting in the inte...
This file contains correspondence between Stuart George Knox and David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, British Political Agents at Bahrain, and Percy Zachariah Cox and Richard Lockington Birdwood of the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, as well as with Sheikh ‘Īsā bin ‘Alī ...
Post of Indian Assistant and Assistant Political Agent
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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 and the High Commissioner of Baghdad. The correspondence concerns organisation and reorganisation of staff within the British Political Agency at Bahra...
File 9/1 Institution of Reforms & Sunni opposition intrigues
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The first part of the volume (folios 2 to 146) covers the period 1922 to 1927, and concerns proposals for reforms in the Sheikhdom of Bahrain, and their subsequent implementation and impact on the kingdom. This part of the volume contains letters exchanged between the Political Agent in Bahrain ...
File 9/3 Bahrain Reforms. Land Registration & Record of Rights
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The volume contains correspondence and papers relating to the issue of land rights and ownership in Bahrain. The first part of the volume (folios 2-78) concern the organisation of a land survey in Bahrain. The Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfa, with the assistance of the Bahra...
File 1/A/43 II Defence Measures in the Persian Gulf.
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The file concerns the implementation of defence measures during the Second World War (1939-45) in the area governed by the Political Residency in Persian Gulf generally, and more specifically in Bahrain. The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Per...
