Search

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Travel documents Digitised Content No

1. IOR/R/15/2/633

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633
Title:
‘File 24/1 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RE: PASSPORT CONTROL’
Scope & Content:
The file contains the correspondence of the Political Agent, Bahrain, mainly with other British agency, consular and passport authorities in the Persian Gulf and India and also with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (representing the Bahrain passport authorities). The correspondence conce...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1934-20 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (255 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/634

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/634
Title:
‘File 24/3 SAYID MUHAMMAD TAHIR AL DABBAGH & ABDUL RA’OUF SABBAN, HEDJAZI AGITATORS’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter of complaint from Mr Ismail Ghaznavi (also spelt Ghuznavi) of Amritsar, India, and is addressed to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, in December 1927. This letter and the ensuing correspondence, mainly between British officials in India an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1927-18 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1391-1409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1391-1409
Title:
File 13: British Protection and Nationality
Scope & Content:
The 19 surviving files about nationality contain numerous, individual applications dealt with by the British Agency, Bahrain, for the following services: the registration of British and British Indian subjects and British protected persons as Bahrain residents, 1926-1951; the registration of bir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1926-1951
Extent:
19 files (3,318 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1751
Title:
File 29/7 D Ristricted Visas
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents regarding a number of foreign individuals that British officials were ordered to not grant visas to, without prior reference to the Government of India. On folios 2-10, the file contains a list of the names of a group of Pakistani Aramco employee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1950-18 Aug 1950
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1754

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1754
Title:
File 29/22 B II Special Endorsement for British Territories etc
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents related to special endorsements for travel issued in Bahrain and Sharjah for individuals travelling to British territories including India, Palestine and the Union of South Africa. The file also contains lists of visas granted to 'aliens' (i.e. non...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1945-Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1756
Title:
File 29/35 Travel Facilities for Gulf Subjects - Issue of Certificate of Identity
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters sent to the British authorities by individuals in the Gulf (mainly from Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat and Qatar) requesting for travel documents and permission to travel (primarily to other locations in the Gulf) to be issued to them. Some of these letters are from ex-slaves...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1944-31 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (309 folios)