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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Subject Food rationing

1. IOR/R/15/2/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/143
Title:
File 1/A/5 III ADMINISTRATION. QATAR AFFAIRS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning Qatar affairs, particularly the issues of smuggling, and rationing. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham); the Head Munshi of the Political Agency, Bahrain (Jassim bin Mohamed [Jasim ibn Muhammad Kadmari]);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1944-6 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (216 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/R/15/2/766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766
Title:
‘File 29/3i Food Supplies – Food Control and Rationing & GENERAL’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about food rationing and price controls in Bahrain during the Second World War (1939-1945). The supply and distribution of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley, flour, sugar, tea and coffee to the population of Bahrain are discussed and to a lesser extent, other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1942-28 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (288 folios)