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1. IOR/R/15/1/204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/204
Title:
‘File 5/161 III Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to forty-four manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence within each case follows a similar pattern. In each case the Agency (then under the charge of Major Clive Daly) sent a covering letter to the Resident, which s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1924-14 Dec 1929
Extent:

One volume (293 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/205
Title:
‘File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to fifty-one manumission cases, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most cases are straightforward, in that the Political Resident approved the Bahrain Political Agent’s recommendation that the slave in question be given a manumission certificate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1930-1 May 1934
Extent:

1 volume (354 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/206
Title:
‘File 5/161 V Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to manumission applications made by slaves at the Political Agency at Bahrain. A total of seventy-six individual cases for manumission are dealt with in the file. Cases generally follow a set pattern, beginning with the slave’s manumission statement, fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1934-28 May 1938
Extent:

One volume (440 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/207
Title:
‘File 5/161 VI, 168 IX, 179 II Cases of slaves manumitted at Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
The volume is comprised of manumission requests made by slaves seeking refuge at the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Sharjah and Kuwait. Cases heard at Bahrain and Sharjah were covered by treaties signed between the British Government and coastal shaikhdoms, which meant that the assessment of man...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 May 1921-26 Nov 1943
Extent:

One volume (164 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/210

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/210
Title:
File 5/168 VI Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to 26 manumission cases, received by the Bushire Political Residency from the Political Agents on the Arab Coast. The majority of cases originate from the Native Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi), who sends his correspondence via the Political Agent in Bahrain. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1936-11 Nov 1938
Extent:

1 volume (287 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/220
Title:
‘5/190 VI – Manumission of Slaves at Muscat’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to twenty-six manumission cases. Although the volume is described in its title as being cases from the Political Agency in Muscat, cases 25 and 26 involve manumission cases heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah. The cases are straightforward in natu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1938-7 May 1942
Extent:

1 volume (209 folios)

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