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1. IOR/R/15/2/1960

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1960
Title:
File K/2 Miscellaneous Petitions Received and Filed
Scope & Content:
This file contains petitions, letters, requests, and other documentation sent to the British Political Agency in Bahrain from Bahrain and various other parts of the Gulf. The bulk of the papers are requests for the settlement of debt, although a large number of them pertain to personal disputes a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1931-11 Nov 1954
Extent:
1 file (411)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1857
Title:
File A/13 Slave cases: Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to over thirty manumission applications heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The manumission statements for each slave are included in the file, along with related follow-up correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Agency and oth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1939-16 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (172 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1846

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1846
Title:
File A/8 Correspondence regarding extradition of persons
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to four separate extradition requests in the Persian Gulf region, sent to the Bahrain Political Agency. In the first case Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, sought the extradition of a Bahraini subject alleged to have misappropriated mo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
29 Jul 1934-28 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1852

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1852
Title:
File A/11 II Slave cases Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file comprises eighteen manumission application cases numbered 13 to 30, cases 1 to 12 being contained in the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 I Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1851). The files contain a total of sixty-nine individual manumission applications (as well as one woman’s app...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1937-12 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (369 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1844

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1844
Title:
File A/6 Claims and complaints received and settled
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers and correspondence related to a host of claims and complaints, occurring both in Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, that were brought to the attention of the Political Agent in Bahrain. The papers do not provide any detail of the court proceedings or the outcomes of any c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1936-1 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (285 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1905

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1905
Title:
File No. E/12 V. O. Barwas and Thulth El Mukaddas.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent between local and foreign manumitted slaves in Bahrain and the Political Agency, Bahrain. The manumitted slaves asked the Political Agency to provide them with Barwas (sing. Barwa) certificates to enable them to join the Nakhudhas (div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1927-16 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1850

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1850
Title:
File A/10 Slavery. Slave cases of the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains thirty-eight manumission cases, dealing with over one-hundred manumission applications or requests from individuals for help in the retrieval of enslaved relatives. All of the cases (with the exception of one occurring in Bahrain, folio 439) were heard by the Political Officer ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1941-13 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (442 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1904

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1904
Title:
File No. E/10 V. O. POLICE REPORTS
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of reports sent by the Police Department to the Political Agency in Bahrain between 1930 and 1934. The reports are on individual cases including domestic violence, robbery, infidelity, harassment, brawls, alcohol [‘arak] manufacturing and consumption,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Malay
Date Range:
18 Nov 1930-27 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (441 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1828

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1828
Title:
File A/2 IV Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers related to individual manumission cases heard by the Political Agency at Muscat. The Agency at Muscat sent details of each case, including copies of the slaves' manumission statements, to the Bahrain Agency (eg. folios 1B, 2). In turn, in those cases w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1939-14 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1831

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1831
Title:
File A/2 V Slavery: cases reported by Political Officer, Qatar
Scope & Content:
The majority of the papers in the file are correspondence between the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Doha, and concern manumission applications from slaves. Most of the manumission applications are made by men who were captured and sold into slavery. There is one case of a born (domestic) sla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1950-29 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)