IOR/R/15/2/1453

The file consists mainly of annual reports submitted by the Political Agent, Bahrain to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, about the working of the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. The reports are for the period 1926-1949 and provide summary information about:

• The number and type of civil and criminal cases heard or otherwise disposed of by the Court of the Political Agent, Bahrain;
• The number of deportation and prohibition orders issued;
• The number of British subjects registered at the Agency as Bahrain residents.

There is one report containing summary information about two civil cases heard on the Trucial Coast in 1950, one by the Bahrain Agency Court and the other by the Joint Court with Shaikh Saqr bin Sultan at Sharjah. There is also related correspondence with the Foreign Office, Eastern Department, London about the transfer of one of these Trucial Coast cases, to the Bahrain Government Court.

The file also includes a letter from the Indian Assistant to the Political Agent, Bahrain, to The Imperial Indian Citizenship Association, Bombay, giving the number of Indians registered as Bahrain residents and the names of several leading Indian merchants, for publication in the 1933 edition of the Indians Abroad Directory, compiled by the Association (folio 53).