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037-000229279 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, c 1922-c 1948

1. IOR/R/15/2/1508

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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1615
Title:
File 17/14 I 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:
4 Feb 1930-29 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (335 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1021

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1021
Title:
File 1/29 II Retirement of K S Ismail Barduli and Resulting Appointments
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the leave (pending retirement) of the Head Munshi of the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers, which consist of telegrams, notes, memoranda, letters and a statement, include papers relating to the appointment of a successor; papers relating to staffing arrangements in respec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1942-4 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1627

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1627
Title:
File 17/26 PROPOSAL TO PURCHASE A MOTOR CYCLE FOR AGENCY DESPATCH RIDER
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the Bahrain Political Agent's proposal that the Political Agency should be provided with a motorcycle despatch rider for the local delivery of mail to and from the Agency. In a letter to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, dated 7 June 1945, the Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1945-8 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1510

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1510
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/13 Pensions to Bahadur Khan & Niadar Khan Levy Corps Havildars – Correspondence re –’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to arrangements for the payment of Indian military pensions for individuals either residing in Bahrain, or who have worked in Bahrain and wish to return to British India. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Secretary to the Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
22 Sep 1926-9 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)