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'File 19/116 VIII (C 34) Bahrain Miscellaneous' [40r] (81/124)
The record is made up of 1 file (60 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1925-28 Jun 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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3.
A a.
Dear Colonel
f "
The
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrain,
-j 4th November 1929.
Je
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I have been worked to death ever since I arrived and
the rush of cyphers in the last few days has quite finished me,
I got the doctor on to the last one but he has made an utterly
unintelligible mess of it and when I have time I shall have to
finish it» and see what it really means. It does not seem very
urgent, and was not apparently something for him to see, but he
had it so mixed up that he got nothing out of it. I have com
plained separately to Russell about a recyphered message that
could have quite easily have been s ent in code but for the first
line. In the last week to add to ot^er distractions I have had
two sets of R.A.F. and one sloop.
I hope to get off the letter you wanted about Persians!
though it means a good deal of midnight oil, and you will, I hope
to be able to settle the business before you go.
The pearling season has been a failure and every one
is complaining. Belgrave says he will have difficulty in making
his budget figures and he is cutting down expenditure in every way.
The actual cash balance is low, both in the State and the Shaikh* s
account, and it is extremely fortunate that we took the action
we did with the civil list. The big buyers say there is no demand
from Europe and have bought little. The mefchants say that they
have comibined and have deliberately not bought to keep prices
down. I think there is more truth in the former and they have too
much last season^ stuff unsold. The catch has been goa^L about
4 crores, but only one
crore
Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees).
they s^id has been sold.
The big merchants wanted to see me about the cul
tured pearl biasiness and you will see a separate letter about it.
I have sent it in rather a half boiled state so that you cd record
a note shd you wish to. We argued for 2i hrs and finally arrived
at the unanimous conclusions that you will see. I had got a draft
before we started or nothing wd have ben settled. A lot of nasty
asides from AbdurRahman QusaiM against Md Ali Zainal was a feature
of the meeting.
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The documents contained in this file cover a diverse range of topics. The file includes - in the following order - letters concerning water boring operations in Bahrain (1925/1926), a report of an assassination attempt against Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (1926), a petition 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. from Sunni and Shia inhabitants of Bahrain (1926), a letter regarding Shaikh Hamad's desire to visit Abdullah bin Jasim Al Thani in Qatar (1927), a list showing the quantity and value of foreign goods imported into Bahrain in 1927, discussions regarding the granting of additional land in Bahrain to Mespers, The Mesopotamian-Persian Trading Corporation (1928), reports concerning the Persian school in Bahrain (1928), a letter from 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. in Bahrain to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Bushire that discusses several matters (1929), correspondence that discusses the distinction between Shaikh Hamad's personal flag and the official state flag of Bahrain (1930), an intelligence report on the Qusaibi family of Riyadh (1931) and a letter about the implementation of a 10 percent cut to the personal allowances of the Al Khalifa family (1931).
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- 1 file (60 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
- Physical characteristics
Unbound, loose pages in a folder. Foliation starts on the first page of the file. The foliation numbers are written in pencil and circled. They appear in the top right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . A previous foliation system runs from folio 3 to folio 8 but has been crossed out. An additional, inconsistent, foliation system appears in pencil and blue crayon, starting on folio 10.
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- IOR/R/15/1/328
- Title
- 'File 19/116 VIII (C 34) Bahrain Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1r:9v, 10v, 11v:60v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence