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Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/157

1. IOR/R/15/2/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/157
Title:
File 1/A/38 I Negotiations with Bin Saud re:- Eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia with Qatar & Trucial Oman.
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the Eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia with Qatar and Trucial Oman (also referred to as the Trucial Coast), and negotiations over the boundary between British officials and Ibn Saud (referred to also as Bin Saud) [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, King of Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1934-24 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1570
Title:
‘16/58 Contributions for the sufferers of Bombay fire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence received by the Political Agency relating to a donation of five hundred Indian rupees from the Bahrain merchant Rao Sahib Jashanmal, and the institution of a relief fund in Bombay [Mumbai], for the benefit of people suffering in the wake of the Bombay dockyard explosion and subseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1944-29 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1571

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1571
Title:
‘16/59 Correspondence regarding Government of India Gazette.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reorganisation and distribution of the Gazette of India. The file contains a circular letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, dated 18 April 1944, detailing sections of the Gazette and its sale and annual subscription prices (folio 3). The fi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1944-7 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1572
Title:
‘File 16/60 Correspondence regarding Local Clubs in Bahrain Is.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from clubs, or concerning clubs in Bahrain: letters from representatives of the Bahrain Cricket Club, concerning requests to stage theatrical plays to support the club’s fundraising activities, and notification of the construction of a new club house. Papers include synopses for t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1944-22 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1573

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1573
Title:
‘File 16/61 Complaints from the Public’
Scope & Content:
Letters and other papers relating to complaints made to the Political Agency in Bahrain: complaints from individuals over ration cards issued by the Manama Municipality, and missing ration cards or numbers; commercial and contractual complaints between employees and employers, in relation to wo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1945-18 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1574

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1574
Title:
‘File No. 16/62 Shortage of meat and vegetables etc supplies in the Bazzar’
Scope & Content:
A single piece of correspondence, a letter from D Ham, Manager of the Bahrain branch of Eastern Bank Limited, to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 14 August 1944 (folio 2). Ham writes that his staff complain of having been unable to obtain meat in the bazaar for a fortnight, and asks if essen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1944-20 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1575

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1575
Title:
‘File 16/63 Cinema Programmes’
Scope & Content:
Cinema screening programmes and schedules for various organisations and institutions in Bahrain: cinema programmes for the Public Relations Office in the Persian Gulf’s cinema, dating from November 1944 until December 1946. The programmes are lists, indicating the date and time of screenings, ve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Nov 1944-21 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1576

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1576
Title:
‘File 16/64 Correspondence regarding indents placed on companies in India by the Executive Engineer, Persian Gulf Division’
Scope & Content:
Two items of correspondence addressed to the Executive Engineer of the Independent Persian Gulf Sub Division at Bushire, from the shipping agent Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, who write in their capacity as agents for Jenson & Nicholson (India) Limited. Both letters, which bear Jenson &am...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1944-7 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1577
Title:
‘File 16/65 Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, with which the Political Agency held a number of accounts, as listed on folio 2. The correspondence is of a routine nature: branch opening hours; the opening of a Dubai branch of the bank; the issue of bank drafts ‘at par’ (face value) for official ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1944-13 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1578

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1578
Title:
‘File 16/66 Gifts and souvenirs to shaikhs’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to gifts of ammunition cartridges made by British political officials to members of the ruling family of Bahrain, including the ruler, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah. Included in the papers are letters of thanks from the recipients of these gifts, often in both Engli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1945-8 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)