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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/630
Title:: File 23/3 EMPLOYMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS BY MUSCAT GOVERNMENT
Scope & Content:: Correspondence discusses recruitment of British subjects (from Palestine) to teach in a school in Muscat.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1944-6 Oct 1944
Extent:: 1 file (7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/630-632
Title:: File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:: Correspondence discusses: recruitment of a teacher for a school in Muscat; issues involved in the purchase or lease of Masirah Island to the British Government as a permanent base;different Arabic titles by which the Sultan of Muscat liked to be referred and how this contrasted with the titles ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1944
Extent:: 3 files (35 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/633-637
Title:: File 24: Passport Control
Scope & Content:: There are five surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about passport control at Bahrain. Each file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the handling of individual cases by the Political Agent, Bahrain, in cooperation with the Government ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1927-1947
Extent:: 5 files (330 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/638-642
Title:: File 25 Treaties
Scope & Content:: The Treaties subject files comprise copies of, and in some instances correspondence relating to, a number of international agreements and treaties, which are as follows: correspondence relating to the text of the Saudi-Yemeni Treaty of Taif, 1934 (IOR/R/15/2/638); a copy of the 1938 Agreement be...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1930-1948
Extent:: 5 files (99 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/643 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 26 Medical
Scope & Content:: The file forming the 'Medical' subject file was produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file dates from 1934-1935. The 'Medical' subject file contains correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire and local rulers. The topics covered are: reques...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1934-1935
Extent:: 1 file (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/644 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 26 Administration (Political)
Scope & Content:: There is only one surviving file. This file relates to the establishment of a new decoration of honour by the ruling family of Bahrain, known as the Order of the Al Khalifah.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1940-1941
Extent:: 1 file (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/645-650
Title:: File 27 Etiquette
Scope & Content:: The Etiquette files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, contain files from the 1930s and 1940s concerning: gun salutes for British officials and members of the various Arab ruling families in the Gulf; social etiquette (such as terms of address, relative seniority of British officials and seating ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1931-1949
Extent:: 6 files (564 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:: File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:: The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:: 1930-1950
Extent:: 115 files (13,409 folios)

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