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1. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/787
Title:
Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-194...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/951
Title:
Ext 4741/44 'Shipment of supplies to Muscat: Mozambique sugar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding imports of sugar, tea and other commodities from Mozambique to Muscat, and their onward export to Persia. The file covers considerations of increased restrictions on such imports and potential withholding of tea from India in order to uphold rationing. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1944-26 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3969

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3969
Title:
Coll 30/225 'Economic development of Gulf States: (Agriculture and Fisheries) Water Scheme for Muscat.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the economic development of the Persian Gulf states that were under British supervision, particularly in terms of fisheries, agriculture, and water supply. The proposals are discussed in the light of expected increases in oil revenue in all the states, and the com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1947-10 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (140 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/2/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/173
Title:
File 1/A/48 A Complaint against the Food Controller by Messrs. Hirjimal Dhamanmal.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns complaints made by Hirjimal Dhamanmal, and other Bahrain merchants, about the Food Controller, Bahrain (Captain Arthur Charles Byard; later Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier), who was responsible for implementing food control policies (e.g. rationing and import controls) in Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Nov 1939-27 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/375
Title:
File 9/31 Report that illicit trade between Bahrain and Persia is encouraged by the Political Agent Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the British Embassy at Tehran and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, concerning allegations of illegal trade between Bahrain and Iran by a merchant from Bushire, who was responsible for smuggling sugar, tea and opium...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1946-24 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/771

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/771
Title:
‘File 29/18 vol I TEA FOR THE RESIDENCY BUSHIRE, ESSENTIAL FIRMS BUSHIRE, AND THE CONSULATES AT KHORRAMSHAHR, KERMAN AND BANDAR ABBAS’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about Indian tea and sugar exports to Bahrain under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities were in short supply. The file contains the corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1944-31 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (244 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/772
Title:
'File 29/19 FOOD SUPPLIES EXPORT CONTROL'
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about Indian tea and sugar exports to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities wer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1943-5 Dec 1943
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/775

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/775
Title:
‘File 29/20 iii STOCK POSITION – BAHRAIN & TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and statistics about the monitoring and maintenance of adequate supplies of quota rice, cereals such as wheat and barley, sugar, tea and also cotton piece goods, in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, in the years following the Second World War (1939-1945)....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1946-27 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)