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11. IOR/R/15/2/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/698
Title:
‘File 28/12 Establishment of Contraband Control Centre’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the transport and trade in contraband goods through the Gulf during the Second World War, with particular reference to the trade in goods of enemy origin or destination. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Res...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1939-4 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/713

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/713
Title:
‘File 28/22-I Mission of S.O.(I) [Staff Officer Intelligence] Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file’s papers relate to the appointment and activities of the Security Officer (initially referred to as a Staff Officer Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the file are the Security Officer at Bahrain (Captain C G Campbell) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1941-29 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/784

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/784
Title:
‘File 29/24 COFFEE FOR BAHRAIN AND EAST SAUDI ARABIA’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in 1944 from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, New Delhi to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, refusing the latter’s request for an increase in the amount of coffee made available for export from India to Bahrain, d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1944-8 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/777

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/777
Title:
‘File 29/21 i FOOD SUPPLIES (RICE)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and telegrams about the efforts made to obtain supplies of rice for consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain and Dubai. British officials in the Middle East and Bahrain Government officials discuss the procurement of rice surpluses from Iraq and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1943-10 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (213 folios)

15. 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)

16. IOR/R/15/2/781

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/781
Title:
'File 29/22 I CEREALS FOR SHARJAH AND DUBAI'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about supplies of wheat and barley for importation and local consumption in Dubai, Sharjah and the other Trucial Coast sheikhdoms, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when food grains and wheat in particular were in short supply worldwide and subjec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1943-29 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (339 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/686
Title:
‘File 28/6 War. Arrangements for the Control of Norwegian, Danish and other neutral ships, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises communications and correspondence relating to the restrictions and orders imposed by the British Government on foreign vessels, and in particular those regarded as neutral or ‘enemy’ during wartime. The papers chiefly relate to Danish and Norwegian vessels, prompted by the Ger...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-15 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

18. 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)

19. IOR/R/15/2/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/787
Title:
File 29/27 II Pulses for Bahrain and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about: the allocation of import quotas of Indian pulses for Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms in 1947; the arrangements of Bahrain and Dubai importing merchants with their exporters in Karachi, regarding shipments; and the Government of India’s subs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1946-6 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/539
Title:
File 14/4 Visits of Japanese representatives and agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, memoranda, and correspondence relating to the visits and treatment of Japanese and Italian subjects and agents in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire, the British Ministry at Jeddah, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1936-4 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)