IOR/R/15/2/104

This file contains correspondence between Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, the British Political Agent at Bahrain; Arthur Prescott Trevor, the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, and Stuart George Knox, Acting Political Resident at Bushire; the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bombay. Also included within this file are copies of correspondence between the British Political Resident at Bushire and the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and copies of various court documents.

These papers concern the personality of Jāsim Muḥammad al-Chirāwī and his uncle, ‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh, and their deportation from Bahrain on account of their intrigues against the British Agent, the Manamah Municipality (al-Baladiyya), Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah and his son and heir-apparent, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah. Included within this file are statements by various notable Bahrainis attesting to al-Chirāwī's crimes and intrigues against the British.