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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/15/2/1965

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1965
Title:
File K/10 Agency Court Fees
Scope & Content:
This file contains documentation and regulations pertaining to the charging of court fees in the Political Agent's Court in Bahrain, and the Bahrain Court. The majority of the papers contain detailed instructions on case types, legal procedures, and various forms of judicial acts for which defend...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1923-10 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (74 Folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1950
Title:
File J/1 Correspondence with the Adviser
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the estates of deceased persons in Bahrain. The papers are primarily letters from supplicants on matters of inheritance, custody, and the administration of estates, primarily property. The file also contains exchanges between the Political Agent and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1946-20 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1959

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1959
Title:
File K/1 Letters of Good Offices
Scope & Content:
This file correspondence which consists of requests for letters of good offices to the Political Agent in Bahrain, and his responses to such requests. Most requests are submitted in order to facilitate travel elsewhere in the Middle East and India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1932-20 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (238 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1949
Title:
File H/2 Miscellaneous Correspondence with Muharraq Schools and Club
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Ministry of Education in Bahrain, the Political Agent, and various schools in Bahrain. The papers consist mainly of invitations to annual school events. The file notes at the end of the file contain some information about anti-British political dissen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1934-15 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1954

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1954
Title:
File J/34 'Correspondence with Defence Office on Judicial Matters'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the jurisdiction of military staff to imprison or detain military personnel in civil prisons. Several folios in the middle of the file (4-9) pertain to one such case in Bahrain with regards to soldiers from the Indian Army stationed at Bahrain during 1941.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1941-22 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1955

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1955
Title:
File J/36 'Correspondence received from outside Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence with claimants of funds and estates from outside Bahrain, but who either have relations in Bahrain or used to reside there as foreign subjects. Most papers relate to civil cases of divorce and inheritance, primarily between Bahrain, Iran and India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1946-17 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1847

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1847
Title:
Miscellaneous Papers Regarding Judicial Matters
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a request for assistance to the Political Agency, Bahrain, from the Adlieyah of Nasriyah Ahwaz in a judicial relief case. The documents (in Arabic, Persian and English) concern a case filed by Rustam bin Ali [Rustam bin ‘Alī], a Persian resident of Bahrain, against Mohd. bin G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
2 Jun 1931-23 Jun 1931
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1845
Title:
File A/7 Miscellaneous correspondence with Muhammerah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to two separate matters, one dating from 1932 and the other from 1940. The first matter relates to a financial claim being made by an Indian tailor residing in Bahrain, against an Anglo-Persian [Anglo-Iranian] Oil Company employee from Abadan in Persia [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
18 Aug 1932-10 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)