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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Bahrain Political Agency, 1900-1971

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3769B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3769B
Title:
Coll 30/52(3) 'Bahrein Intelligence Summaries 1946'
Scope & Content:
The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency at Bahrain for January 1948 until January 1950 (not for the year 1946 as the title suggests). The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office, and numerous British diplomat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1948-14 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (233 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3767

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3767
Title:
Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
Scope & Content:
The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency at Bahrain for the years 1933-40. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office, and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. Ther...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1933-21 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (535 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3768
Title:
Coll 30/52 (2) 'Persian Gulf, Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
Scope & Content:
The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency at Bahrain for the years 1941-45. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office, and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1941-9 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (473 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3769A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3769A
Title:
Coll 30/52(3) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain Intelligence Summaries 1946'
Scope & Content:
This file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency in Bahrain from August 1946 until December 1947. A handwritten note on the cover of the file states that the summaries from January to July 1946 had been mislaid. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1946-22 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (136 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3751
Title:
Coll 30/38 'Persian Gulf, Bahrein: Re-organisation of Police Force'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the pay, training and composition of the Bahrain Police Force. This includes arrangements for Bahrain Police Force members to receive training in India and for the deputation of policemen from India to serve in Bahrain as lath...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1929-2 Dec 1943
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3716

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3716
Title:
Coll 30/6 'Persian Gulf. Bahrein [sic]: Trade Reports 1928 to'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of annual trade reports that were compiled by the Political Agency in Bahrain and printed in India. The reports contain detailed lists of all trade shipped in and out of Bahrain and the country's primary importers and exporters as well as general trade and financial i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1929-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (236 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3755
Title:
Coll 30/42 'Correct spelling of Bahrain/Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding whether the official spelling should be Bahrain or Bahrein. The spelling of Kuwait (Kuwait or Koweit) is also discussed in passing. The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, the Political Residency in Bush...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1932-15 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3752

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3752
Title:
Coll 30/39 'Persian Gulf, Bahrain: Succession; Attitude to be Adopted by Political Agent in the Event of Need to Choose a Successor'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the issue of succession in Bahrain. Specifically, this correspondence discusses the death of Shaikh Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa and the formal succession of his son, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in 1932 and the subsequent death ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1932-16 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (148 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1044

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1044
Title:
File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to the finances of the Bahrain state. The papers cover a number of matters, including the appointment and retention of Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave as Financial Adviser in Bahrain, annual budgets and reports, and the economic situation in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1924-11 Sep 1931
Extent:

1 volume (187 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1427
Title:
Pol Ext 8579/49 'Declassification of maps of Muscat: request from Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the declassification of maps detailing Muscat, created by the Government of India, which were requested by the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain . The main correspondents are the Bahrain Political Agency, the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Fore...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1949-24 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)