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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, c 1929-c 1944 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/R/15/2/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/169
Title:
File 1/A/48 I Control of Prices of standard foodstuffs in Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the control of prices of foodstuffs and other commodities in Bahrain, the suppression of hoarding, and the regulation of imports and exports by the Food Controller, Bahrain, against the background of wartime conditions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1939-1 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (281 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/171
Title:
File 1/A/48 III FOOD CONTROL.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the effects of the implementation of controls on the import and export of food and other commodities in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1942-8 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (278 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/172
Title:
File 1/A/48 IV FOOD SUPPLIES.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the availability of food supplies in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast, at a time when rationing and a quota system for imports had been introduced as a result of the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Gujarati
Date Range:
27 Jul 1942-1 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (330 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/173
Title:
File 1/A/48 A Complaint against the Food Controller by Messrs. Hirjimal Dhamanmal.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns complaints made by Hirjimal Dhamanmal, and other Bahrain merchants, about the Food Controller, Bahrain (Captain Arthur Charles Byard; later Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier), who was responsible for implementing food control policies (e.g. rationing and import controls) in Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Nov 1939-27 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/297
Title:
File 8/8 1931-34 Bahrain Agency Administration Reports and Related Papers
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency, as well as the reports themselves. Present within the volume are the reports for the years 1931-1934. Each report contains a prose statement and somet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1932-20 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 volume (151 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/299
Title:
File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency and the Trucial Coast Office, as well as the reports themselves. Present within the file are the reports for the years 1940-43. Each Bahrain Agency repor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1941-15 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (358 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/552
Title:
File 16/2 B.I.S.N. STEAMERS CALLING AT SHARJAH
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses two matters. Firstly, issues around the granting of exclusive rights to the British India Steam Navigation company to use Sharjah as a Port of call and how to deal with any requests from Soviet and Japanese shipping. Correspondents include Lieute...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1933-5 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/678
Title:
‘File 28/4 Trading with the enemy’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of printed circulars and notices issued by the British Government, memoranda and letters issued by the Government of India, and copies of correspondence to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to trade with countries and territories regarded as the enemy, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1939-4 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 volume (498 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/684
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) I War. Proposed extension of export licensing system’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and statistical data relating to the monitoring of imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and the states of the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export license controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband contr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1941-6 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)