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038-000229062 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, c 1929-c 1944

1. IOR/R/15/2/793

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/793
Title:
File 29/32 CIGARETTES FOR BAHRAIN & TRUCIAL COAST from INDIA
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding tobacco quotas imported from India, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America to Bahrain, Kuwait, Trucial Coast, Muscat, and Gwadur [Gwadar]. The correspondence is mainly about fixing quota distributions between manufacturers. It also discusse...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1944-18 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/794
Title:
File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/792

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/792
Title:
File 29/31 Matches from India for Bahrain, Trucial Coast & Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of matches from India to Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, for local consumption, under Government of India export licensing controls and import quotas imposed during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when matches and oth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1943-11 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/776

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/776
Title:
‘File 29/20 – Vol II FOOD STOCK POSITION – Monthly Return’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and statistics about the monitoring and maintenance of adequate supplies of quota rice, wheat, sugar and also cotton piece goods, in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, in the years following the Second World War (1939-1945). These essential commodities con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1948-5 Dec 1950
Extent:

1 file (120 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/787
Title:
File 29/27 II Pulses for Bahrain and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about: the allocation of import quotas of Indian pulses for Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms in 1947; the arrangements of Bahrain and Dubai importing merchants with their exporters in Karachi, regarding shipments; and the Government of India’s subs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1946-6 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/778
Title:
‘File 29/21 vol ii FOOD SUPPLIES RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Dubai and the other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, also Qatar, at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). Rice and whea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1945-30 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/788
Title:
‘File 29/28 Bran for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the export of bran from Punjab, by sea from Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential animal feed such as bran was in short supply and subject to Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1943-2 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/789
Title:
‘File 29/29 Tamarind for Bahrain & T.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly about the importation of surplus tamarind from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), when this fruit was subject to Government of India export licensing restrictions and import quotas in Persian Gulf cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1943-9 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/774

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/774
Title:
‘File 29/20 ii BAHRAIN & 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 1943-11 Apr1946
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)

10. 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)