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'File 8/9 Bahrain Government Annual Report' [91r] (186/298)
The record is made up of 1 volume (145 folios). It was created in 16 Jul 1930-11 Jul 1931. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Haknuda and the Clivers, It does not represent the real
value of the pearls as before they reach the final purchaser
in Bahrain they often change hands several times and are
frequently sold <jnd lesola again in India* As an instance
oi this miring a previous season a record sized pearl Y/as
found which was bought by the taja^from his Nakhuda for
Rs 75,000/-. It was eventually sold, during the same season,
in Bahrain for about Rs 200,000/-.
trom these ligures it is shown that the original amounts
paid to the Makhudas for their pearls amounted to less than
half the prise paid last year. The proportion of this
decrease v/hich is owing to the bad market and that owing
to the smallness of the catch cannot be differentiated. The
Catch Wa.s Scio. go be a poor one, not as good as the previous
year f s. It can be assumed that the remainder of the sales
were proportionally the same.
Out of 249 boats only the divers of three boats received
any shares in the profits, the rest of the beats paid no
dividends as the expenses not only swallov/ed up the whole
of the profits but exceeded them so that at the end of the
season the divers received nothing, but their debts to
their Uakhudas increased. These expenses include advances
ana interest on the same, cost of rations, licenses and also
the hakhuda’s share from the sales, what remains is supposed
to be divided among the divers.
DIVERS 1 DEBTS. One poor season, one bad season and the
prospect of another very bad season will have an unfortunate
efiect on the important question of the gradual reduction of
divers T debts. From the time of the diving reforms until
1346 there was a steady decrease in the amounts owing to the
Ndkhudas by the divers, but from 1347, there has on the whole
been an increase though owing to the government’s policy of
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The volume contains the annual Government of Bahrain reports for the years AH 1348 and 1349. Both reports include budgets for the upcoming year and are written by the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave.
The reports are submitted by Belgrave to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain, Charles Geoffrey Prior, who then forwards them to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire. The correspondence relating to this process are included in the volume.
The 1348 report (folios 8-68), submitted in July 1930, is divided into sections corresponding to a particular subject, as follows: Budget 1349; Notes on Budget, for 1349; Notes on Revenue for 1348; Notes on Expenditure; Education; Judicial; Public Works; Wakf Departments; Municipalities; General.
The report includes an index (folio 8) which lists the sections in alphabetical order, with reference to page numbers. Most of these page numbers are not present in the document itself.
The 1349 report (folios 76-134), submitted in July 1931, is divided in a similar way, as follows: Budget 1350; Statements of Receipts and Expenditure; Comparative analysis; The Pearl Industry; Police and Public Security; Land Department; Education; Manamah Municipality; Muharrak [Muharraq] Municipality; Agriculture; Quarantine; Electricity; Press Propaganda; General. There is no index.
Folio 69 is a letter from Belgrave to Prior regarding two Bahraini boys educated at the American University of Beyrout [Beirut].
Folios 135-37 are correspondence between Prior and Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier, Director of Customs at Bahrain, regarding a recent drop in trans-shipment duty in Bahrain.
The volume contains the following photographs:
- Jaffariah School (folio 45);
- Manamah-Muharrak [Manama-Muharraq] Bridge (two photographs, folio 46);
- a new "sea road" north of the Customs House (folio 57);
- a new quarantine site (two photographs, folio 115).
Folio 116 is a blueprint of the new quarantine.
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- 1 volume (145 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 147; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 25-70; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- 'File 8/9 Bahrain Government Annual Report'
- Pages
- 6r:69v, 73r:134v
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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