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1. IOR/R/15/2/180-194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/180-194
Title:
File 3: Staff
Scope & Content:
The Staff files contain details regarding various positions within or reporting to the Bahrain Political Agency, including: Assistant Political Agent; Political Officer on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; Agency Medical Officer; Censor Clerk; Upper Air Observatory staff; Post Office staff; Public Wo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
15 files (838 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1808

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1808
Title:
File 36/86 II Export of Gold and Silver from Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the movement of currency and precious metals (gold and silver) around the Persian Gulf. The Correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain and the Eastern Bank Limited. A small...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1942-30 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (378 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1819-1823

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1819-1823
Title:
Un-numbered Files
Scope & Content:
The un-numbered files comprise correspondence and papers covering a miscellaneous range of subjects: a court case, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain in 1950, relating to a legal dispute between M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam, and Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1819); de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1950
Extent:
5 files (387 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1824-1980

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1824-1980
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Vernacular Office Files
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1950
Extent:
157 files

5. IOR/R/15/2/1828

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1828
Title:
File A/2 IV Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers related to individual manumission cases heard by the Political Agency at Muscat. The Agency at Muscat sent details of each case, including copies of the slaves' manumission statements, to the Bahrain Agency (eg. folios 1B, 2). In turn, in those cases w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1939-14 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1830
Title:
File A/2 II [3/A II] Slavery: cases of Qatar slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning Qatar slaves seeking manumission in Bahrain. In total there are five cases included in the file where the slave in question seeks manumission from the Political Agency in Bahrain. In one case, the manumission statement is made by the husband of a femal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1946-22 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1831

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1831
Title:
File A/2 V Slavery: cases reported by Political Officer, Qatar
Scope & Content:
The majority of the papers in the file are correspondence between the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Doha, and concern manumission applications from slaves. Most of the manumission applications are made by men who were captured and sold into slavery. There is one case of a born (domestic) sla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1950-29 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1832

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1832
Title:
File [3] Slavery: cases of Trucial Coast slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to nearly forty manumission applications heard at the Bahrain Political Agency. Of these applications, thirty-six involve new manumission applications, while another two are requests for replacement manumission certificates that have been...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1944-10 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1834

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1834
Title:
File A/2 IV (III) Slavey: cases of Trucial Coast slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to around forty manumission applications heard at the Bahrain Political Agency. All slaves were owned by residents of, or originated from, the towns of the Trucial Coast, primarily Dubai. The correspondence for most of the cases includes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1948-14 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (142 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1838
Title:
File A/3 III (3 B II) Slavery: cases of Muscat and Saudi Arabian slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to thirteen manumission applications heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the slaves making the applications had travelled to Bahrain from Muscat and the al-Batinah region of Oman. In these cases, correspondence was exchanged...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1945-24 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (99 folios)