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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, c 1922-c 1948

1. IOR/R/15/2/1879

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1879
Title:
‘FILE. B/11. KIDNAPPING ON TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation of individual cases of the kidnapping and sale into slavery of Arab and Persian inhabitants of Ajman, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al Qiwin [Umm ul-Qaiwain]. These offences are committed mainly by Bedouins belonging to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1936-20 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1508

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1508
Title:
‘File 16/11 Arab shipping companies’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a single piece of correspondence, a letter sent by the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Cornelius James Pelly) to the British Political Agents and Consuls in the Persian Gulf region, dated 2 January 1947 (f 2). Enclosed with the letter is a typewritten e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1946-2 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/232
Title:
File 5/198 I Kidnapping on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to incidents of kidnapping in the Trucial Coast region. The correspondence for each incident was probably compiled at a later date, drawing together extracts from other Bushire subject files, in particular the Sharjah diary subject file (identified as ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 May 1934-17 Mar 1939
Extent:

1 volume (299 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1622
Title:
File 17/19 I Agency library
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the Bahrain Agency Library, which is a stock of books considered to be of use to Agency staff. The file therefore contains orders for new books, and relevant invoices and receipts; the main supplier is Messrs Thacker and Company Limited, Bombay. It also contains corres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1940-29 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (147 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1666

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1666
Title:
‘File 20/B HANDING OVER OF P. A. Advice to Shaikhs etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and memorandum regarding the appointment of Cornelius James Pelly as Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in Bushire, and his departure from Bahrain. The correspondence is also about the appointment of Arnold Crawshaw Galloway as the new Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1945-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/216
Title:
‘File 5/190 II Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to thirty-seven manumission cases heard at the Political Agency in Muscat. During the period covered by the file, seven different individuals held the post of Political Agent at Muscat. Most of the cases are straightforward affairs, in which the Muscat ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1921-11 May 1929
Extent:

1 volume (523 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1505
Title:
‘File 16/10-A Securities held by Bahrain Government in the Eastern Bank’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to securities in the Government of India, held by the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence specifically concerns certificates for these securities, forwarded by the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) to the Indian Income Tax authorities...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1945-16 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1616
Title:
File 17/14 II Toshakhana articles for Bushire — Correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the Bushire Residency [Persian Gulf Political Residency] Toshakhana — a store of gifts kept with the Bahrain Political Agency, so that they would be available for presentation to the Trucial Coast Shaikhs when needed. Regular stock accounts are submitted to Bushire to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1942-16 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/217
Title:
‘File 5/190 III Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains thirty-nine manumission subjects, each one involving the manumission request of one or more slaves, who had sought refuge at the Political Agency in Muscat (then under the charge of Major G. Murphy). Each manumission case follows a very similar pattern. Murphy sent a copy of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1929-32 Dec 1932
Extent:

One volume (353 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1620

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1620
Title:
File 17/17 Supply of Broadcasting receiving sets
Scope & Content:
This file concerns plans for wireless broadcasting sets to be provided to the Political Agencies at Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat, as well as at the Residency at Sharjah, for the purpose of making up-to-date news available (with the cost of the wireless sets being borne wholly by His Majesty's Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1936-1 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)