The file contains correspondence concerning the forwarding of kharitas (messages of good wishes sent at times of change) to the ruler of Bahrain. The correspondence enclosing the kharitas was sent from the External Affairs Department of the Government of India to Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khali...
File 6/87 Offences Against Motor Vehicles Regulation
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The file contains correspondence relating to driving offences in Bahrain. Much of the correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Adviser to Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. The file includes: correspondence with Bahrain Petroleum Company Chief Local Repre...
File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION
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The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his i...
The file contains applications made to the Political Agent, Bahrain, by local British and British Indian subjects, who were required by law to register as temporary or permanent residents of Bahrain. The file includes correspondence with individuals; businesses, such as the Bahrain Petroleum Com...
‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
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Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limit...
‘File 16/26 Miscellaneous. Purchase of stores through the Indian Stores Department’
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Correspondence and papers received from the Chief Controller of the Indian Stores Department of the Government of India. These include: a copy of a brochure entitled ‘Indian Stores Department. Its Organisation and Functions’ which includes lists of the classes of stores supplied by the Indian Sto...
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the principal shipping agents at Bahrain: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, and Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. The correspondence is routine, and relates to the exchange of bills of lading and redemption of let...
‘16/58 Contributions for the sufferers of Bombay fire’
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Correspondence received by the Political Agency relating to a donation of five hundred Indian rupees from the Bahrain merchant Rao Sahib Jashanmal, and the institution of a relief fund in Bombay [Mumbai], for the benefit of people suffering in the wake of the Bombay dockyard explosion and subseq...
‘File No. 16/74 Death of Father Gabriel Fleming in Motor Accident’
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Telegraphic correspondence, letters and other papers relating to the death in a road accident in Bahrain, of the Catholic Priest Father Gabriel Fleming, in June 1947. The correspondence covers: the reporting of the death to Fleming’s sister in England; expressions of condolences; burial arrangeme...
‘File No. 16/76 United Nations Appeal for Children’
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Correspondence and papers relating to collections made in Bahrain (and Qatar) for the United Nations (UN) Appeal for Children. The papers include multiple copies (approximately sixty-eight) of a circular letter from the Political Agent (Cornelius James Pelly), that includes a quote from a speech...
