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1921. IOR/R/15/2/941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/941
Title:
‘File 22/6 I Kalba’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to affairs on the Trucial Coast in 1951, chiefly the assassination of the Ruler of Kalba, Hamad bin Sa’id [Ḥamad bin Sa’id Āl Qāsimī] by Saqr bin Sultan bin Salim [Ṣaqr bin Sultan bin Salim Āl Qāsimī], son of the former ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah, Sheikh ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 May 1951-19 Nov 1951
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

1922. IOR/R/15/2/1013

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1013
Title:
File 1/25 II Nominal Roll
Scope & Content:
Nominal roll of the Persian Gulf, Meshed and Zabul Clerical Establishment as at 1 January 1947; statement of ministerial [clerical] staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain, as at 1 January 1948; and statement of ministerial staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain, as at 1 October 1948, all with cov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1947-9 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

1923. IOR/R/15/2/1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1514
Title:
‘File 16/17 i Agency Gardens’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to purchases for and the maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency gardens. The file’s correspondents include: the Political Agent (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
13 Oct 1927-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

1924. IOR/R/15/2/1628

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1628
Title:
File 17/27 AGENCY TRANSPORT
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the use and maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency's official vehicles. The file largely consists of the Agency's correspondence with various suppliers and distributors of vehicle parts in Bahrain. The file contains specific details of the vehicles used by the Agency du...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1946-24 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (237 folios)

1925. IOR/R/15/2/1867

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1867
Title:
‘File B/10-I CLAIM OF THE RULER OF DUBAI AGAINST MESPERS’
Scope & Content:
The file contains enquiry correspondence relating to a claim made in 1935 by Shaikh Said bin Maktum [Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm] the Ruler of Dibai [Dubai], principally against the shipping agents Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (also referred to as the Mesopotamia Iran ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1935-18 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

1926. IOR/R/15/2/1880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1880
Title:
‘File B/12 SEIZURE OF A RAS-AL-KHAIMAH BOAT AT SIRRI ISLAND’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with correspondence in 1935 reporting the seizure of a dhow belonging to nakuda Salim bin Abdullah, a subject of Ras al Khaimah, by a large group of Arab inhabitants of Sirri Island, led by Ubaid bin Khalfan al Aqrubi. As a result of their enquiries, the British authorities in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1935-7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

1927. IOR/R/15/2/927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/927
Title:
‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
Scope & Content:
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

1928. IOR/R/15/2/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/78
Title:
File 1/3 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Relations of Akhwan with Neighbouring States.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (also referred to Ibn Sa'ud), Sultan of Najd (also referred to as Nejd), particularly in terms of relations between Najd (also referred to as the Akhwan [Ikhwān] and Wahabis [Wahhabis]) and neighbouring states. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Feb 1924-21 Oct 1926
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

1929. IOR/R/15/2/665

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/665
Title:
‘File 28/1 L II British personnel recruited as refinery guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the recruitment, discipline, and resignation of members of the Bahrain Special Defence Police, who were charged with the security and defence of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s (BAPCO) refinery and oil fields. The principal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1942-7 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

1930. IOR/R/15/2/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/674
Title:
‘File 28/1 W (Bahrain Defence) N.C.O. – ‘Iraq levy officer’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence related to the recruitment of NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) from Iraq, to serve in the Bahrain Special Police Force. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain, Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban and the Air Officer Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1939-19 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

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