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41. IOR/R/15/2/858-860

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/858-860
Title:
File 37: Visits
Scope & Content:
The 3 files forming the 'Visits' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Visits' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident at Bushire, other British authorities, the Ruler o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1948
Extent:
3 files (376 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/2/861-872

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/861-872
Title:
File 38: Petroleum Concessions Limited
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes contain correspondence and memoranda relating to the work of Petroleum Concessions Limited and their subsidiaries, Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited, and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, in the Persian Gulf ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1149 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/2/873-891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/873-891
Title:
File 39: Oil Development
Scope & Content:
The nineteen files forming the 'Oil Development' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Oil Development' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, other British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
19 files (844 folios)

44. 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)

45. IOR/R/15/2/896-898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/896-898
Title:
File 41 Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to arms control, and incidents of arms theft or arms smuggling, occurring at Bahrain and elsewhere along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf: arms licenses for the nakhudas of boats sailing on the Arab coast of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1949
Extent:
3 files (207 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/899-911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/899-911
Title:
File 42 Bahrain State Employees
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain State Employees sub-sub-series contains files related to the recruitment of European – primarily British – employees for service with the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence in the files discusses recruitment for a number of different vacancies including include police officers,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
13 files (1,220 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/912-915

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/912-915
Title:
File 43 Communist Activities
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series consists of four files containing correspondence between British officials regarding topics related to Communist activities in the Persian Gulf. The series contains a file on activities of the Tudeh Party in the Gulf, a file regarding the arrival of flights from the USSR, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1950
Extent:
4 files (75 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/916 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/916 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
Unnumbered file: Notes on Trucial States Rulers
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub-series comprises one file providing biographical and genealogical information regarding the rulers of the Trucial Coast states in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1937-c 1942
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)