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1. IOR/R/15/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4
Title:
Residency Agency, Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
Very few files have survived from the Residency Agency, probably because there was little methodical record keeping before the appointment of the British Political Officer in 1939. The series contains only seventeen files dating from 1930 to 1951. Subjects covered include boundaries, Sharjah Air ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
17 files (1878 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

3. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

4. IOR/R/15/6/1-21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/1-21
Title:
Muscat Agency, General Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains reports, political correspondence, and memoranda on the general political affairs of Oman between 1829-98. A significant portion of the papers contains correspondence on rebellions against the authority of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, trade reports, and the foreign ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1898
Extent:
21 files (4,328 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/946-962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/946-962
Title:
Bahrain Agency, English Office Files
Scope & Content:
The English Office files comprise 18 unrelated files on topics and matters affecting Bahrain including: administration and finance - including administration reports for Bahrain, official Government of India communications, use of cypher codes, and the process of administrating claims against de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1951
Extent:
18 files and volumes (2020 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/917-924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/917-924
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Special Papers
Scope & Content:
The sub-series comprises circulars, notifications, telegrams, correspondence and invitations to and from the Political Agent at Bahrain. The communications relate to administration, finance, personnel management, naval matters, wartime intelligence, and leave allowances of the Agency and its sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
8 files (553 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1990 (Sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1990 (Sub-series)
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Public Relations Office
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain Public Relations Office files comprise one file, which contains correspondence relating to the shipment of a Dodge truck from the Public Relations Office in Basra to the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, and the shipment of a Hudson saloon in the opposite direction.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1947
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/497-504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/497-504
Title:
File 12 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Confidential files contain correspondence regarding the following subjects: official visits to the Persian Gulf; arrangements for the coronation of King George VI; transmission of cyphers; resignation, leave and discharge of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Company Limited (PC...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1945
Extent:
8 files and volumes (1763 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1819-1823

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1819-1823
Title:
Un-numbered Files
Scope & Content:
The un-numbered files comprise correspondence and papers covering a miscellaneous range of subjects: a court case, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain in 1950, relating to a legal dispute between M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam, and Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1819); de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1950
Extent:
5 files (387 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/13-18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/13-18
Title:
File B Commercial
Scope & Content:
The confidential commercial subject files deal with matters of commercial concern arising in Bahrain, as follows: the discovery and survey of bitumen and oil deposits in Bahrain; the efforts by British and foreign concerns to gain concessions for sponge fishing, pearl fishing, and pearl exports,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1907-1921
Extent:
6 files and volumes (333 folios)

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