IOR/R/15/2/1445

All documents in the file were circulated by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire and later Bahrain, to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others, from May 1942 onwards, for information and guidance. The earliest document is a circular letter dated 17 May 1923 (folio 43 verso), which is reproduced in a circular dated 28 February 1945 (folio 43 recto).

Most of the Government of India circulars in the file were issued by the Finance Department, 1942-1947 and consist mainly of amendments to the General Provident Funds Rules and similar rules governing the following Funds:

• The General Provident Fund;
• The Contributory Provident Fund (India);
• The Indian Civil Service Provident Fund;
• The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund;
• The India Civil Service (Non-European Members) Provident Fund;
• The Post Office Insurance Fund.

The rule amendments and procedural changes in the circulars, cover all aspects of Fund management, including: interest rates on Fund deposits and balances, requests to withdraw or transfer money in order to pay for life insurance premiums or subscriptions to an approved Indian Family Pension Fund, death benefit nominations, payments to heirs of deceased Fund subscribers, liability of fund deposits to death duties in Great Britain, changes to official forms.

The file also contains:

• The Secretary of State’s Services (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1943;
• Circulars from the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi, about transferring the individual Provident Fund and Postal Insurance Fund accounts of some serving Government of India employees, between Pakistan and India, following partition, 1947-1949;
• Correspondence in 1950 between the Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of India in Iran; the Deputy Accountant-General, Postal Life Insurance, Calcutta and the Political Agent, Bahrain regarding the amounts of pay and deductions made to cover the Postal Life Insurance premiums of a Bahrain Agency clerk, 1946-1948;
• The amounts of pay and deductions made to cover the General Provident Fund subscriptions and Postal Life Insurance premiums of several Bahrain Agency clerks, 1948.