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21. IOR/R/15/2/613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/613
Title:
‘File 21/11 Communal tension in Qatar: appointment of special constables for Qatar’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to tensions arising between the Muslim and Sikh communities of Bahrain and Qatar, in response to the Indo-Pakistan war of 1947. The tensions referred to in the file are chiefly between Indian/Pakistani employees of Petroleum Concessions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1948-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/2/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/733
Title:
‘File 28/38 Powers to appoint approved members of the Company’s [Petroleum Concessions Limited] staff in Qatar as special police officers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the institution of a regulation, created under the Qatar Order in Council (1939) enabling the Political Agent at Bahrain to appoint specified employees of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) as Special Police Officers in Qatar. The princip...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1947-4 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/2/815

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/815
Title:
File 32/3 (4/4) Bahrain Police
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence (primarily between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and the Political Agency in Bahrain) regarding attempts to reform and expand Bahrain's police force. The file contains a detailed report written by R I Hallows, Assistant Political in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1934-12 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (207 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/816

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/816
Title:
File 32/6 I (4/4A) Recruitment of British Police for Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding arrangements for a number of British policemen to be seconded to work for the Bahrain Police Force. The file contains correspondence covering the following: the reason why the British police officers are needed; the logistics needed to facilitate the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1944-8 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (239 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/2/827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/827
Title:
File 32/24 Customs and Police Post at Sitra
Scope & Content:
This file contains two letters regarding Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah's desire to construct a Customs and Police Post on the island of Sitra. In the first letter (folio 3), Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain asks R M Brown, the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1948-11 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/2/1216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1216
Title:
File 6/9 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding police duties, etc., arrivals of foreigners in Bahrain, or with Commandant Police
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence between the Political Agency, Bahrain, and the Commandant of the Bahrain State Police relating to a wide range of matters, including: the arrival of 'undesirables' into the country, such as prostitutes, suspected and convicted criminals, and those seeking work...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
16 Feb 1927-14 Jun 1941
Extent:
1 file (151 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/2/1306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1306
Title:
File 6/88 II British police in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following: an extract from a memorandum by the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, dated 8 April 1945, in which he proposes that British police in Bahrain be housed at the Fort Bungalow and enquires as to whether it would be possible to import ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1945-20 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/2/1897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1897
Title:
File No. E/3 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Commandant of Police, Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda, petitions and proclamations. A few issues are raised in the correspondence including cases of robbery, alcohol production, complaints by locals against the police for illegally detaining them in the police lock-up, and complaint...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1926-11 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (81 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/5/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/231
Title:
File 4/44 Kuwait State. Recruitment of British Police Sergeants for Kuwait Police Force
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf Political Residency in Bahrain regarding the hiring of British police officers in Kuwait by the country's ruler, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah. The correspondence also contains references to the broader...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1949-25 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/5/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/296
Title:
‘File 7/1 III Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of King's Regulations under the Kuwait Order in Council. It is concerned with two regulations in particular: the Kuwait Passport Regulation, 1947 to introduce penalties for arriving at Kuwait without a visa, and the Special Police Officers Regulation, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1945-5 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)