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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/139-916

21. IOR/R/15/2/601-604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601-604
Title:
File 20 Slavery: Slave Trade in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
These slavery files consist of confidential correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to the nature and extent of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf region. The files contain: reports and statistical data on the slave trade, gathered for the League of Nations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
4 files and volumes (1176 folios)

22. 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)

23. IOR/R/15/2/616-625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616-625
Title:
File 22: Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
There are 10 surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the conduct of British relations with the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain and his subordinates at the British Residency Agency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
10 files (791 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/626 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/626 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Lt-Colonel Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent Muscat, concerning the Muscat State Council.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

25. 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)

26. IOR/R/15/2/630-632

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/630-632
Title:
File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses: recruitment of a teacher for a school in Muscat; issues involved in the purchase or lease of Masirah Island to the British Government as a permanent base;different Arabic titles by which the Sultan of Muscat liked to be referred and how this contrasted with the titles ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
3 files (35 folios)

27. 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)

28. 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)

29. IOR/R/15/2/643 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/643 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 26 Medical
Scope & Content:
The file forming the 'Medical' subject file was produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file dates from 1934-1935. The 'Medical' subject file contains correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire and local rulers. The topics covered are: reques...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1935
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/2/644 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/644 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 26 Administration (Political)
Scope & Content:
There is only one surviving file. This file relates to the establishment of a new decoration of honour by the ruling family of Bahrain, known as the Order of the Al Khalifah.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1941
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)