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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Food rationing

1. IOR/L/PS/12/572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/572
Title:
Ext 5440/41 'Supply of foodstuffs to Persia'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between the War Office, Secretary of State of India, Government of India, HM Ambassador to Iran, and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf regarding the distribution of military and civil supplies to Persia. Topics discussed include: Using foodstuff prov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1941-12 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1144
Title:
Ext 3777/46 'Offer by Messrs Saapen and Co of Bombay of 5000 tons of Persian Barley to Government of India'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Government of India, External Affairs Department to presumably the HM Ambassador to Persia detailing an offer made by the Indian firm, Messrs Saapen and Company of Bombay to export 5000 tons of Persian barley to the Government of India, Food Department and th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

3. IOR/R/15/2/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/143
Title:
File 1/A/5 III ADMINISTRATION. QATAR AFFAIRS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning Qatar affairs, particularly the issues of smuggling, and rationing. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham); the Head Munshi of the Political Agency, Bahrain (Jassim bin Mohamed [Jasim ibn Muhammad Kadmari]);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1944-6 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (216 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/172
Title:
File 1/A/48 IV FOOD SUPPLIES.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the availability of food supplies in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast, at a time when rationing and a quota system for imports had been introduced as a result of the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Gujarati
Date Range:
27 Jul 1942-1 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (330 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766
Title:
‘File 29/3i Food Supplies – Food Control and Rationing & GENERAL’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about food rationing and price controls in Bahrain during the Second World War (1939-1945). The supply and distribution of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley, flour, sugar, tea and coffee to the population of Bahrain are discussed and to a lesser extent, other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1942-28 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (288 folios)