This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact on the population and economy of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast sheikhdoms, of Government of India export licensing restrictions for the supply of tea and to a lesser extent, coffee, sugar, dates and cotton piece goods, to the Persian G...
The file discusses the concession for red oxide (also known as ferric oxide) which the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company Limited (Eric Innes Pocock) was exploiting at Abu Musa [Abū Mūsā] including the company’s relationship with the Shaikh of Sharjah (Shaikh Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qasimī) and wo...
File 4/4 IV Budget Estimates & MODIFICATIONS THERETO.
Scope & Content:
The file contains statements of budget estimates for the Political Agency, Bahrain for the financial years 1941-42 and 1942-43, and associated correspondence. The correspondence is between the Political Agency, Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and the office of the Accounta...
The file consists of correspondence relating to the administration of Waqf property in Bahrain. Waqf property is that given by dedication to Muslim religious or charitable purposes. The file covers various matters, including: reforms of the administration of waqf property, including the formatio...
File 6/30 II Agricultural Adviser for the Bahrain Government
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the appointment of an agricultural expert to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondents include the Political Agency in Bahrain, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), British Ambassador at Cairo, Government of India (Ac...
File 6/53 Bahrain State Officials (Complaints from and against)
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters of complaint about matters connected to the Bahrain Government and its services, as well as correspondence between representatives of the government (usually Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the government, and Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier, Director of Cust...
‘File 12/1 Casaulties – Rules for Boats approaching steamers etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to incidents and accidents involving steamers at Bahrain, including: boats approaching steamers before they have anchored (ff 4-5); an accident leading to the death of a sailor on board SS Bandra (ff 6-7); instances of steamers running aground on sand b...
‘File 12/13 Shipping. Agents for foreign steamship companies’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to foreign shipping companies operating at Bahrain, and agents representing foreign shipping companies operating at Bahrain. Correspondents in the file include: the Political Agent at Bahrain (chiefly Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Edward Birkbec...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain and the Consular Section of the British Embassy, Baghdad. The correspondence concerns a request made by a Jewish resident in Bahrain, who was emigrating to the United State...
‘File 16/1 II Correspondence with the American Mission’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the American Mission at Bahrain (including the American Mission Hospital) relating to three separate matters: an application made in May 1945 by Dr William Harold Storm of the American Mission Hospital, to travel to Hassa [al-Aḥsā’] with...
