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IOR/R/15/2/1664
- Record Id:
- 040-000230001
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00018f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100029684572.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1664
- Title:
- File 20/1- IV Ceremonials and Celebrations: New Year's a King's Birthday's Celebrations.
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains papers regarding the celebration of the King’s Birthday and New Year’s Day between 1939 and 1945 at the Agency in Bahrain. Due to the War, the arrangements for the King’s Birthday celebrations at the Agency were cancelled between the years 1940 and 1944, and invitations were only sent to the Shaikh of Bahrain and his family. For the King’s Birthday, a notice was sent regularly by the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf announcing which day in June the birthday would occur that year. For Christmas, a memorandum was sent by the Political Agent in Bahrain with a sum of money to the Adviser to the Bahrain Government. The memorandum instructed the Adviser to distribute sweets among the prisoners on Christmas Day. The following arrangements were made for each ceremony when it took place:
- refreshments including biscuits (Nice), coffee, sherbet, crystallised cherries, Mackintosh toffees and tin biscuits (unsweetened) were ordered mainly from Jashanmal & Son;
- European and American community members as well as Bahrain Petroleum Company’s staff were invited;
- personal invitations were sent to Shaikh Hamad Bin ‘Isa al-Khalifa and Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Bin ‘Isa al-Khalifa respectively;
- a guard was appointed to receive the Shaikhs and their family members at the Agency;
- the speech of the appointed Political Agent was read on the occasion, focusing mainly on malaria and education in Bahrain as well as affairs concerning the Second World War (1939-45).
Lists of invitees from among Manamah and Muharraq notables, and Indian invitees, and records of absentees were drawn up. After each ceremony a report was written summarising the event. The correspondence is mainly between Political Agents Hugh Weightman, Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and Tom Hickinbotham, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and Shaikh Hamad Bin ‘Isa al-Khalifa and Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Bin ‘Isa al-Khalifa.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000229279
038-000229999
040-000230001 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/963-1823 : Bahrain Agency, English Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/1663-1675 : File 20: Ceremonials and Celebrations
IOR/R/15/2/1664 : File 20/1- IV Ceremonials and Celebrations: New Year's a King's Birthday's Celebrations. - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0008]/037-000229279[0020]/038-000229999[0002]/040-000230001
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (218 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00018f
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1939
- End Date:
- 1944
- Date Range:
- 29 May 1939-24 Dec 1944
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-211; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Folios 212-219 are file notes.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)