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1. IOR/R/15/2/139-916

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/139-916
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
778 files

2. IOR/R/15/2/229-258

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/229-258
Title:
File 6 Personalities
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1949
Extent:
30 files

3. IOR/R/15/2/497-504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/497-504
Title:
File 12 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Confidential files contain correspondence regarding the following subjects: official visits to the Persian Gulf; arrangements for the coronation of King George VI; transmission of cyphers; resignation, leave and discharge of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Company Limited (PC...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1945
Extent:
8 files and volumes (1763 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/605-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:
File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1949
Extent:
11 files and volumes (478 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/892-895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/892-895
Title:
File 40 Minerals
Scope & Content:
The minerals sub-sub-series discusses deposits of gypsum and red oxide on the islands of Ḩālūl Abū Mūsā, Şīr Bū Nu‘ayr, Dalmā, and Şīr Banī Yās in the Persian Gulf. The main focus of the correspondence are the red oxide concessions held by the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Mining Company at Bu ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1949
Extent:
4 files (114 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/588-600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588-600
Title:
File 19 Travellers and Tourists
Scope & Content:
The confidential subject series, entitled Travellers and Tourists, comprises files pertaining to the visits of a variety of travellers and dignitaries – both British and foreign – to the Gulf region, or to specific places along the Arab coast of the Gulf, usually Bahrain. Most of the files are de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (466 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/633-637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633-637
Title:
File 24: Passport Control
Scope & Content:
There are five surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about passport control at Bahrain. Each file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the handling of individual cases by the Political Agent, Bahrain, in cooperation with the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1947
Extent:
5 files (330 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/638-642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/638-642
Title:
File 25 Treaties
Scope & Content:
The Treaties subject files comprise copies of, and in some instances correspondence relating to, a number of international agreements and treaties, which are as follows: correspondence relating to the text of the Saudi-Yemeni Treaty of Taif, 1934 (IOR/R/15/2/638); a copy of the 1938 Agreement be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1948
Extent:
5 files (99 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/795-800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/795-800
Title:
File 30 Middle East Policy
Scope & Content:
There are six surviving files containing correspondence, dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about various aspects of British policy in the Middle East. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. There are seve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1950
Extent:
6 files (514 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/627-629

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627-629
Title:
File 23 Intelligence
Scope & Content:
The Intelligence files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain records of confidential information passed by various sources to the Political Agent, Bahrain. Most of the information is political intelligence relating to Saudi Arabia. There are only three files: reports of the activities of a n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1947
Extent:
3 files (200 folios)