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831. IOR/R/15/2/619

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/619
Title:
File 22/11 (22/8 III) DUBAI CUSTOMS AGITATIONS FOR REFORMS IN DUBAI
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a few letters and memoranda exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Residency Agent at Sharjah about imposing a temporary restriction on the importation of arms and ammunition by the Trucial Coast shaikhs, especially from Japan. There follows two memoranda...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-9 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (122 folios)

832. IOR/R/15/2/775

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/775
Title:
‘File 29/20 iii STOCK POSITION – BAHRAIN & TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and statistics about the monitoring and maintenance of adequate supplies of quota rice, cereals such as wheat and barley, sugar, tea and also cotton piece goods, in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, in the years following the Second World War (1939-1945)....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1946-27 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)

833. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

834. IOR/R/15/2/769

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/769
Title:
‘File 29/18 vol. iii TEA FOR BAHRAIN, EAST SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (238 folios)

835. IOR/R/15/2/773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/773
Title:
‘File 29/20 I Bahrein & Trucial Coast Stock Position and Statement of Bahrain Imports, Exports and re-exports of certain foodstuffs’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the importation of essential food commodities and cotton piece goods from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah, under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1943-4 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (317 folios)

836. IOR/R/15/2/621

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/621
Title:
‘File 22/22 Trucial Coast – Kalba Succession’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the succession to the Trucial Coast shaikhdom of Kalba, following the death of its Ruler Shaikh Said bin Hamad [Sa‘īd bin Ḥamad] on 30 April 1937, leaving a seven-year-old son, the minor Shaikh Hamad bin Said [Ḥamad bin Sa‘īd], as heir. Discussion focuses o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1931-23 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (152 folios)

837. IOR/R/15/2/783

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/783
Title:
File 29/23 i Contravention of Food Regulations and smuggling of quota goods
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about investigations conducted by the Political Agent, Bahrain into the maritime smuggling of rice, sugar, tea, matches, cotton piece goods and other essential commodities in short supply during the Second World War (1939-1945). Supply and trade in these goods be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1944-16 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (227 folios)

838. IOR/R/15/2/790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/790
Title:
‘File 29/30 Civil requirements: miscellaneous items from India (pepper, spices, etc)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of various essential commodities from India, by sea from Bombay and Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, during the Second World War (1939-1945). Several commodities are mentioned including spi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
9 Sep 1943-25 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (240 folios)

839. IOR/R/15/2/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/699
Title:
‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, copies of official notices and regulations, and other papers, relating to air raid precautions and passive air defence measures taken in Bahrain throughout the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 May 1940-22 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

840. IOR/R/15/2/791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/791
Title:
File 29/30 vol. ii CIVIL REQUIREMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - EG. PEPPER, SPICES, TURMERIC, ETC
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of foodstuffs, cotton and leather goods, soap and other manufactured articles, from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, under Government of India wartime export licensing restrictions and import...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 May 1945-1 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (149 folios)