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31. IOR/R/15/1/350

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/350
Title:
File 19/176 I (C 39) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed information regarding Bahrain's finances between 1924 and 1931. The file contains annual financial reports that include budget, revenue and expenditure details for the Government of Bahrain in this period. Education, the pearling industry and other economic issues a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1924-11 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (325 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/1/351

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/351
Title:
File 19/176 II (C 40) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed correspondence regarding Bahrain's finances from 1931 and 1932 including revenue and expenditure figures. The correspondence also discusses the levy of the zakat religious tax, customs/tariff matters, budget estimates, auditing details and other financial issues. On ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1932-11 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (263 folios)

33. IOR/R/15/1/352

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/352
Title:
File 19/176 III (C 51) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed correspondence regarding Bahrain's finances from between 1932 and 1934 including revenue and expenditure figures. The correspondence also discusses state control of artesian wells, customs/tariff matters, budget estimates, auditing details, counterfeit coins and other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1932-6 May 1934
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/1/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/353
Title:
File 19/176 IV (C 71) Bahrain Finances
Scope & Content:
This file contains detailed records of Bahraini government budgets, revenues and expenditures for the years 1934 to 1937. The file also contains a number of reports compiled by Charles Belgrave (Shaikh Hamad's advisor). These reports cover the pearling trade and diving industry, the police force...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1934-14 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 volume (203 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/1/616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/616
Title:
File 78/1 II Pearl Fisheries
Scope & Content:
The Pearl Fisheries subject file contains correspondence and other papers relating to British concerns over the admission of foreign vessels into the Persian Gulf to fish on the pearling banks. At the front of the file are a number of fold-out maps (folios, 3, 5, 11 and 13) showing the locations...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Nov 1937-24 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/1/736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/736
Title:
Supplementary List of Undertakings etc, of a Confidential Nature between the Trucial Chiefs of Oman and the British Government, 1911-1912
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Supplementary List of Undertakings etc, of a Confidential Nature between the Trucial Chiefs of Oman and the British Government, 1911-1912. There are also two duplicate copies of the same item. One of the copies is inscribed 'Received under Foreign and Political Department ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
c 1912
Extent:

4 volumes (65 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/3
Title:
File A/5 Pearl fisheries of Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The contents of the file relate to the British Government’s concerns over growing British and international interest in the Gulf’s pearling industry, hitherto almost exclusively exploited by the region’s indigenous inhabitants. 1) The first half of the file (folios 2-13) comprises copies of Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1904-19 Jun 1918
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/2/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/14
Title:
File B/3 Sponge and Pearl Concessions
Scope & Content:
The file’s letters, memoranda and other papers relate to attempts by foreign and British commercial concerns to obtain concessions in the Gulf for sponge fishing and the fishing and export of pearls. The principle correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1905-9 Jan 1918
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/2/56-58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/56-58
Title:
File 4 British Interests
Scope & Content:
These Confidential subject files contain diary entries for the years and quarantine reports for the years 1913-17, and secret commercial intelligence reports on the activities of Hamburg-Amerika Linie for the year 1913-1914. Among the topics covered within the diary entries are: the First World W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1913-1917
Extent:
3 files (583 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/86
Title:
File 1/14 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Retirement of Shaikh Isa & Najdi-Persian Riots of May 1923.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns intercommunal and religious rioting in Bahrain between Persians and Najdis (also referred to as Nejdis), which resulted in the deaths of a number of people. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident, Bahrain (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly) and the (acting)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
10 May 1923-6 Jul 1923
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)