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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/892-895
Title:: File 40 Minerals
Scope & Content:: The minerals sub-sub-series discusses deposits of gypsum and red oxide on the islands of Ḩālūl Abū Mūsā, Şīr Bū Nu‘ayr, Dalmā, and Şīr Banī Yās in the Persian Gulf. The main focus of the correspondence are the red oxide concessions held by the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Mining Company at Bu ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935-1949
Extent:: 4 files (114 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1676-1688
Title:: File 21: Aviation
Scope & Content:: The thirteen aviation files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to matters of civil and military aviation in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in Bushire (later in Bahrain), numerous other political and m...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1927-1950
Extent:: 13 files and volumes (1137 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1368-1390
Title:: File 12: Shipping
Scope & Content:: The Shipping subject files comprise correspondence and papers relating to commercial shipping at Bahrain and in the wider Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the files are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; representatives of the Government of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1924-1950
Extent:: 23 volumes and files (2293 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594
Title:: File 16: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1917-1954
Extent:: 102 files (13,197 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/938-940
Title:: Aviation
Scope & Content:: The Aviation sub-sub-series comprises three files regarding the Sharjah and Dubai Civil Air Agreements. This sub-sub-series was created on 1 January 1951 with the introduction of a new Foreign Office filing system. The previous Aviation files up to 31 December 1950 can be found at IOR/R/15/2/505-...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1950-1951
Extent:: 3 files (190 folios)

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)

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/15/2/1998-2015
Title:: Confidential Files
Scope & Content:: The Confidential Files sub-sub-series contains files related to the Shaikhdoms along the Trucial Coast, primarily Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Ras al-Khaimah. These files discuss the following topics: political developments in Ras al-Khaimah, notably regarding the actions of its ruler, Shaikh Sul...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1950
Extent:: 19 files (3,964 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/15/2/1663-1675
Title:: File 20: Ceremonials and Celebrations
Scope & Content:: There are thirteen surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from 1914 to 1950, about Celebrations and Ceremonials. Files IOR/R/15/2/1663-1665 contain correspondence regarding the celebrations arranged every year by the Political Agency, Bahrain, for both the King’s Birthday and Ne...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1914-1950
Extent:: 13 files (1,556 folios)

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