File 6/52 Bahrain sailing boat smuggling goods out of or into Persia, chased by Persian Patrol-boat
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The file contains correspondence relating to the seizure of boats belonging to Bahrain subjects by Persian patrol boats. The correspondence is between representatives of the Bahrain Government, the Political Agency in Bahrain, and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The pape...
File 6/60 Deaths among the royal family; death of His Highness Shaikh Sir Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifah
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The file contains correspondence relating to the deaths of Shaikh Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifah (in 1933), a senior member of the ruling Al Khalifah family, and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah (in 1942), the ruler of Bahrain. The majority of the papers are letters and telegrams of condolence...
File 10/7 III Trade and Commerce. Registration of trademarks and protection of inventions in the Bahrain Island
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Correspondence relating to trade marks (there was no registration of trade marks in Bahrain at this period, but foreign trade mark rights applied). The file includes examples of flower basket match labels imported from Czechoslovakia by Abdul Rahman Noor Alfarsi, Bahrain, that were similar to flo...
‘File 15/5 I Rules & Regulations Rules & instructions for pilgrims to Hedjaz and other correspondence relating to Pilgrims’
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British officials in Bahrain and other Arab Gulf States received information at regular intervals about the regulations imposed on pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz, by the Saudi Arabian Government. This information enabled the British authorities to make the necessary administrative arrangements...
‘File 16/50 A Conditions of employment of Indian staff in Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Company.’
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Two sets of correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain office of Gray, Mackenzie & Company, both relating to the rights and employment terms for Indians employed by Gray, Mackenzie & Company in Bahrain. The first set of correspondence is dated 1945, and relate...
‘File 16/69 Enquiry from India Office regarding financial privileges for American officials in the British protected Arab States’
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Correspondence and papers exchanged between representatives of the India Office and Foreign Office, and British officials in the Persian Gulf, concerning a proposed agreement to extend financial privileges to United States officials other than diplomatic or consular personnel, who are based in t...
File 36/1 (a) Government of India Notifications restricting export of certain commodities from India
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This file contains copies of notifications from the Government of India's Department of Commerce regarding wartime export restrictions and related correspondence. The notifications were forwarded to the Political Residency in Bushire and the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The...
‘Establishment. No. I/12 Appointments and Changes in the Political Residents & Agents in the Persian Gulf, and Secretaries, Bushire, & of the Govt. of India. and Others.’
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Correspondence relating to the departure (either permanently or on temporary leave) of current, and the arrival of new incumbents, to the post of Political Resident and Consulate General in the Persian Gulf. The file includes: circulars issued by the Political Resident to Political Agents and Of...
‘File 2/4 II. AVIATION. A. CIVIL AVIATION (1) Sanitary Administration on the Arab side of the Gulf’
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The file contains correspondence in the form of letters and notifications related to the outbreak of smallpox at Sharjah. Correspondents in the file discuss the necessity of the application of the International Sanitary Convention and of quarantine restrictions in the Persian Gulf on the Arabian...
File 8/52 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: SHAIKH ISSA BIN SALEH AND HIS FATHER'S CAREER (SHAIKH OF OMAN)
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This file consists of a report entitled 'Sketch of the Careers of Saleh Bin Ali and his son Isa Bin Saleh: The Stormy Petrels of Oman Politics.' Written by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, the report comprises an account of the career of Saleh bin Ali bin Nasir of the El Harth tribe [Sh...
