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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1758
Title:: File 31/2 [17/6 III] Books and Periodicals, Supply of
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to the purchase of books and maps by the Political Agency at Bahrain, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, and supply of news cuttings. The documents in the file are orders for books and stationery, cheques, receipts of payment, and newspaper cutt...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 17 Aug 1933-11 Dec 1934
Extent:: 1 file (261 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1944
Title:: File G/7 III Id Calls. Correspondence with the Shaikhs of the T. Coast.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters sent between the Political Agency, Bahrain, and various Gulf rulers and shaikhs mainly on the occasions of ‘Eid al-Fitr and ‘Eid al-Adha between 1944 and 1950. A memorandum was sent by the Agency to the Naval Officer in charge that the Agen...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Sep 1944-30 Sep 1950
Extent:: 1 file (398 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/783
Title:: File 29/23 i Contravention of Food Regulations and smuggling of quota goods
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about investigations conducted by the Political Agent, Bahrain into the maritime smuggling of rice, sugar, tea, matches, cotton piece goods and other essential commodities in short supply during the Second World War (1939-1945). Supply and trade in these goods be...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 1944-16 Feb 1946
Extent:: 1 file (227 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/790
Title:: ‘File 29/30 Civil requirements: miscellaneous items from India (pepper, spices, etc)’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about the supply of various essential commodities from India, by sea from Bombay and Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, during the Second World War (1939-1945). Several commodities are mentioned including spi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 9 Sep 1943-25 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (240 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1659
Title:: File 19/4 Tours of officers of the Residency, Bushire (EE, RS, Secretary etc)
Scope & Content:: The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for visits of officers of the Political Residency to Bahrain and other Persian Gulf countries: the tours of the Assistant Engineer, Independent Persian Gulf, Bushire, in June 1934, January and November 1937, and October-Novemb...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 May 1934-25 May 1946
Extent:: 1 file (113 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/699
Title:: ‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, copies of official notices and regulations, and other papers, relating to air raid precautions and passive air defence measures taken in Bahrain throughout the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 4 May 1940-22 Nov 1944
Extent:: 1 file (314 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/791
Title:: File 29/30 vol. ii CIVIL REQUIREMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - EG. PEPPER, SPICES, TURMERIC, ETC
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about the supply of foodstuffs, cotton and leather goods, soap and other manufactured articles, from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, under Government of India wartime export licensing restrictions and import...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 16 May 1945-1 Oct 1946
Extent:: 1 file (149 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/634
Title:: ‘File 24/3 SAYID MUHAMMAD TAHIR AL DABBAGH & ABDUL RA’OUF SABBAN, HEDJAZI AGITATORS’
Scope & Content:: The file begins with a letter of complaint from Mr Ismail Ghaznavi (also spelt Ghuznavi) of Amritsar, India, and is addressed to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, in December 1927. This letter and the ensuing correspondence, mainly between British officials in India an...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 8 Dec 1927-18 Feb 1934
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/768
Title:: File 29/18 II Tea and coffee: Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:: This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 28 Mar 1944-24 Mar 1946
Extent:: 1 file (223 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/786
Title:: File 29/27 Vol. I Dhal for Bahrain & T.C.
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence about the export of Indian pulses, mainly dhal, from Punjab and Sind by sea from Karachi, to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities were in short supply and subject to Government...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Oct 1943-28 Jan 1947
Extent:: 1 file (206 folios)

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