IOR/L/PS/12/3826

The file concerns Indians and Pakistanis working in the Gulf states as employees of the Kuwait Oil Company, the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), Petroleum Concessions Limited, Qatar, and the Arabian American Oil Company Limited, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, particularly in terms of labour unrest and employee grievances.

The papers cover: a strike by Indian and Pakistani employees of the Kuwait Oil Company in August 1948, a list of employees' grievances (folios 98-99), press complaints in India about the treatment of Indian employees of the Company in Kuwait, allegations by British officials of Communist influence, notes on strike leaders, and comments on the situation in Kuwait by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf; a report by the British Middle East Office, Cairo of a visit to the Bahrain Petroleum Company, 1949; a report by the Indian Goodwill Mission to the Persian Gulf on the conditions of Indian labour in Bahrain and Kuwait, 1949; the visit of an Indian Government Minister to Kuwait, December 1949; and a report on the resignation of 125 Pakistani employees of Petroleum Concessions Limited, Qatar, 1949.