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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/825
Title:: File 32/22 Bahrain Government's Facilities for Dealing with Accidents
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding concerns that the Government of Bahrain did not possess the appropriate medical and emergency facilities to deal with large-scale accidents in the country. These concerns were raised by W B Steele, the Residency Surgeon in Ba...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Sep 1947-20 Oct 1947
Extent:: 1 file (10 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/826
Title:: File 32/23 Increase in Civil List Payments
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the desire of Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah (the Ruler of Bahrain) to increase the amount of civil list payments made annually to him and other members of the ruling family. Much of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 24 Jul 1946-25 Mar 1950
Extent:: 1 file (73 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/827
Title:: File 32/24 Customs and Police Post at Sitra
Scope & Content:: This file contains two letters regarding Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah's desire to construct a Customs and Police Post on the island of Sitra. In the first letter (folio 3), Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain asks R M Brown, the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Jan 1948-11 Feb 1948
Extent:: 1 file (7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/828
Title:: File 32/26 Assault on Persian Taxi Driver in RAF Camp
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding an incident in June 1948 in which a Persian [Iranian] taxi driver was assaulted by a group of men at the Royal Air Force (RAF) camp in Muharraq. According to a report of the incident written by Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 Jun 1948-7 Jun 1948
Extent:: 1 file (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/829
Title:: File 32/27 National Income and Local Resources in Bahrain
Scope & Content:: This file contains a letter (ff 2-4) sent from Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, to several foreign companies active in Bahrain. The letter informed the companies that the Government of Bahrain wanted to obtain information relating to the country's national income and local...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 May 1948-13 Jul 1948
Extent:: 1 file (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/830
Title:: File 32/28 Representation of Bahrain in Foreign Countries
Scope & Content:: This file contains a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent in Bahrain. In the letter, Hay informs Pelly that Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain had recently told him that a man in Coc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 May 1949
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/831
Title:: File 33/1 (4/8) Supply of Electricity to BAPCO by Bahrain Government
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding discussions between the Government of Bahrain and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) regarding the government's offer to provide BAPCO with an electricity supply for its operations in Bahrain (ff 2-18). These discussions were not successful and BAPC...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 May 1934-21 Apr 1947
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/832
Title:: File 33/2 (4/20) Superintendent, P. W. D.
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding Agha Mohamed Jafar, the Superintendent of the Public Works Department (PWD) in Bahrain. In May 1944, Jafar returned home to India on leave and in May 1945, after repeatedly delaying his return, wrote to Bahrain implying he would not return to his pos...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 May 1945-16 Apr 1946
Extent:: 1 file (30 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/833
Title:: File 33/3 (4/21) Improvement of Bahrain Water Supply
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the installation of a water supply in Manama (for which Messrs. Holloway Brothers Limited received the contract). Much of this correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. A co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Aug 1945-29 Jan 1950
Extent:: 1 file (28 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/834
Title:: File 33/4 (4/22) New Electricity Supply Scheme for Bahrain
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding an upgrade of the Government of Bahrain's electricity supply. The correspondence discusses the logistics of implementing the upgrade as well as broader discussions regarding Bahrain's inadequate power supply at the time. A detailed note on Bahrain's ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Aug 1945-25 Nov 1948
Extent:: 1 file (100 folios)

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