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6211. IOR/R/15/2/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/595
Title:
‘19/8 PRINCE AHMAD TAWHID AND JAMAL PASHA’
Scope & Content:
This file contains one letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, dated 1 November 1931. The letter concerns the visit to Bahrain in 1931 of His Highness Prince Ahma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

6212. IOR/R/15/2/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/596
Title:
‘19/9 Mlle. CORBIAU’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns finding a temporary home in Bahrain for a female Belgian artist named Mademoiselle Corbiau who wishes to visit there to earn money by painting portraits. The correspondents in the file include: Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concession Limited, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1945-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

6213. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

6214. IOR/R/15/2/598

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/598
Title:
‘19/11 MR. FELIX VALYI. MR FELIX VAYLI’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence from the British Consulate General at Bushire and the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Felix Valyi, a Hungarian Orientalist. In particular, are details of his plan for a 'world university' in Greece and a 'Council of Higher Learning in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1946-16 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

6215. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

6216. IOR/R/15/2/600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/600
Title:
‘NAWAB OF BHOPAL'S VISIT THROUGH BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, concerning a stopover by the Nawab of Bhopal, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Hamidullah Khan, in Bahrain in Septe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1948-8 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

6217. IOR/R/15/2/602

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/602
Title:
File 20/1 II Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:

1 volume (283 folios)

6218. IOR/R/15/2/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/603
Title:
File 20/1 III Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. The volume includes correspondence between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Bahrain Political Agent (Hugh Weightman) and naval representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1938-4 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

6219. IOR/R/15/2/605

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605
Title:
‘File 21/1 I Zubarah’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence concerning the ongoing dispute between the Rulers of Bahrain and Qatar over the sovereignty of Zubarah and the surrounding area on the Qatar Peninsula. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly; Lieuten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1944-15 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

6220. IOR/R/15/2/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/606
Title:
'21/2 TAXES IN QATAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns protests by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the British Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the plan of Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, the Ruler of Qatar, to impose a system of taxation on its employees and the question of whether this breaches Article 10 of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1940-9 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

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