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3901. IOR/R/15/2/560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/560
Title:
File 17/7 CENSORSHIP
Scope & Content:
The file discusses arrangements for the wartime censorship of telegrams and letters and customs checking of individuals’ baggage and personal belongings. Included in the file are official orders in Arabic, English and French relating to censorship rules; requests for letters in other languages t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
6 Apr 1943-2 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

3902. IOR/R/15/2/573-587

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/573-587
Title:
File 18 Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial files each relate to a separate issue. The main categories are: Penal matters (IOR/R/15/2/573, IOR/R/15/2/587); the framing, application and interpretation of judicial legislation governing a variety of matters, including the question of British jurisdiction over American nationals ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Spanish
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:

15 files (824 folios)

3903. IOR/R/15/2/581

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/581
Title:
File 18/12 Trial of Bethel, BOAC Employee at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
The file refers to the arrest at Dubai of W Bethell [also spelled Bethel], a British citizen employed as a coxswain by BOAC [British Overseas Airways Corporation], who was accused of assaulting a supervisor and setting fire to a BOAC launch [or flying boat by one account]. The papers include corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1945-18 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

3904. IOR/R/15/2/584

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/584
Title:
File 18/16 Trial of Hathiram, a BOAC Employee at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
The file relates to enquiries into an incident at Sharjah in June 1946, in which S R Hathiram, a wireless operator with British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was alleged to have carried out a physical assault on a member of the Meteorological Department, Sharjah, who he thought had attempt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1947-17 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

3905. IOR/R/15/2/588-600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588-600
Title:
File 19 Travellers and Tourists
Scope & Content:
The confidential subject series, entitled Travellers and Tourists, comprises files pertaining to the visits of a variety of travellers and dignitaries – both British and foreign – to the Gulf region, or to specific places along the Arab coast of the Gulf, usually Bahrain. Most of the files are de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (466 folios)

3906. IOR/R/15/2/601

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601
Title:
‘File 20/1 I Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, in response to Sir George Maxwell’s (British adviser to the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Slavery) requests for information on the extent and nature of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf. Copies of c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1931-30 Jul 1937
Extent:

1 volume (332 folios)

3907. IOR/R/15/2/601-604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601-604
Title:
File 20 Slavery: Slave Trade in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
These slavery files consist of confidential correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to the nature and extent of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf region. The files contain: reports and statistical data on the slave trade, gathered for the League of Nations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
4 files and volumes (1176 folios)

3908. IOR/R/15/2/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/604
Title:
File 20/1 IV Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. A significant portion of the papers relate to allegations of slave trading into Qatar. In a letter dated 14 October 1945, Lady Kathleen Simon, a prominent representative of the Anti-Slavery Society, draw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1945-20 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (275 folios)

3909. IOR/R/15/2/605-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:
File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1949
Extent:
11 files and volumes (478 folios)

3910. IOR/R/15/2/607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/607
Title:
‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the lifting of travel restrictions imposed in 1944 by the British authorities in the Gulf on three members of the Darwish family from Qatar – Jasim bin Darwish, Abdulla bin Darwish and Abdur-Rahman bin Darwish. Correspondents in the file include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946-20 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

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