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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Trade (practice)

1. IOR/R/15/2/342-387

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/342-387
Title:
File 9 Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
The forty-six volumes and files forming the 'Trade and Commerce' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files and volumes date from 1928-1950. The 'Trade and Commerce' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1928-1950
Extent:
46 files and volumes (4028 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/737

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/737
Title:
‘File 28/42 Persian Gulf War Trade Bureau Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises: 1) copies of extracts, or complete copies of, Persian Gulf Trade War Bureau reports, numbered 29 to 37, and issued weekly and dated between 15 August 1942 and 2 November 1942; 2) copies of correspondence concerning the re-export trade from the Arab Coast, chiefly from Dubai t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1942-5 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/531
Title:
‘File 13/26 Refusal of Trading Facilities to inhabitants of Socotra & Mahris: Establishment of Landing Ground at Qishn’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to trading restrictions being placed upon the inhabitants of Al-Mahra [incorrectly written in some parts of the file as Manris; Al-Mahra is in present-day Yemen] and Socotra, in response to the authorities of Qishn refusing the British Government permiss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1933-8 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/698
Title:
‘File 28/12 Establishment of Contraband Control Centre’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the transport and trade in contraband goods through the Gulf during the Second World War, with particular reference to the trade in goods of enemy origin or destination. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Res...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1939-4 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/538
Title:
File 14/3 Foreign Interests - American (General)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to American influence and activities in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire (later at Bahrain), and the India Office. The file opens with a copy (folio 3) of correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1944-17 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/678
Title:
‘File 28/4 Trading with the enemy’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of printed circulars and notices issued by the British Government, memoranda and letters issued by the Government of India, and copies of correspondence to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to trade with countries and territories regarded as the enemy, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1939-4 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 volume (498 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/684
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) I War. Proposed extension of export licensing system’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and statistical data relating to the monitoring of imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and the states of the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export license controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband contr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1941-6 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/686
Title:
‘File 28/6 War. Arrangements for the Control of Norwegian, Danish and other neutral ships, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises communications and correspondence relating to the restrictions and orders imposed by the British Government on foreign vessels, and in particular those regarded as neutral or ‘enemy’ during wartime. The papers chiefly relate to Danish and Norwegian vessels, prompted by the Ger...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-15 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)