File 1/6 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Arabian Mission, Bahrain
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The file concerns the activities of the Arabian Mission (the papers from 1922 refer to the American Mission) in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein), including the work of the Mason Memorial Hospital (for male patients) in Bahrain. The correspondence is mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain; th...
The file deals with revolts against the King of Hejaz and Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (commonly referred to in the papers as Bin Saud or Ibn Saud) by Akhwan [Ikhwān] tribes in Najd (also referred to as Nejd). The file consists of a small amount of direct correspo...
File 9/4 Bahrain Reforms. Introduction of Reforms in Bahrain
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The volume contains printed copies of Government of India confidential correspondence, relating to the Bahrain reforms. The majority of the letters contained in volume are printed copies of correspondence originally sent to the Government of India either by the Political Resident in the Persian ...
The volume concerns gun-running and piracy in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Hugh Weightman); the Residency Age...
The volume contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency, as well as the reports themselves. Present within the volume are the reports for the years 1921-1930. Each report contains a prose statement and stati...
The papers in this volume date mostly from 1933-1934. The volume contains copies of correspondence between the Political Resident at Bahrain and the Secretary of State for India in London about oil concession in Qatar and the negotiations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Shei...
This file contains two letters listed in the file notes at the rear of the file. The first, on folio 4, dated 30 March 1933, is from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, concern...
File 12/8 Channels of communication for secret and confidential documents
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The volume contains covering letters and correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, the India Office in London, the Government of India, the Political Residency in the Gulf, the British Consulate at Basra and Yusuf Ahmad Kanoo, concerning the transmission, despatch and r...
‘File 13/2 VIII Air facilities in Arab shaikhdoms’
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The file’s contents concern the implementation of civil air agreements, and the use of air facilities, at Britain’s aerodromes along the Arab coast (chiefly Bahrain (Muharraq), but also at Sharjah, Kuwait, and Qatar) in the period directly following the Second World War. The principal correspond...
‘File 13/21 Flights by private aircraft in Persian Gulf’
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The file contains correspondence relating to the use by private aircraft of aerodromes along the Arab coast of the Gulf, chiefly of the RAF aerodrome at Muhurraq, Bahrain, but also the RAF base at Sharjah. The principal correspondents in the file are the Acting Political Agent in Bahrain, Captai...
