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1. IOR/R/15/2/633-637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633-637
Title:
File 24: Passport Control
Scope & Content:
There are five surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about passport control at Bahrain. Each file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the handling of individual cases by the Political Agent, Bahrain, in cooperation with the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1947
Extent:
5 files (330 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/637
Title:
File 24/10 John Hinsler
Scope & Content:
The file contains only four documents, all dating from October 1946. There is a letter and enclosure from the British Embassy in Baghdad to the Political Agent, Bahrain asking him to take temporary custody of a seemingly harmless destitute calling himself John Hinsler, who had been detained in Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1946-15 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/633

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633
Title:
‘File 24/1 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RE: PASSPORT CONTROL’
Scope & Content:
The file contains the correspondence of the Political Agent, Bahrain, mainly with other British agency, consular and passport authorities in the Persian Gulf and India and also with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (representing the Bahrain passport authorities). The correspondence conce...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1934-20 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (255 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/636
Title:
‘File 24/6 KUWAIT PASSPORTS IN BOOK FORM’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two documents only, a short letter of enquiry and a short interim letter of reply, dated 28 December 1936 and 26 January 1937 respectively. The Political Agent, Kuwait, mentions that the Kuwait authorities are planning to introduce a passport system. He asks the Political Agent,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1936-26 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/635

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/635
Title:
‘File 24/4 MR. EL MAKKI (Swiss) & MR. QUISAN (French)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of letters and telegrams as a result of enquiries made by the Political Agent, Bahrain, about Imperial Airways passengers Captain Henry Guisan, Swiss, born 1899, and his companion Mr El Makki or Mekki, French, born 1892. They had been refused permission to land at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1934-15 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/634

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)