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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [78r] (168/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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30. TRIJCIAL COAST .
(a) (i) Trucial Shaikhs.
THUCIAL COAST. 30.
The following were the Ruling Shaikhs of
the various states on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
throughout
the year;-
1. Dubai
2. Sharjah
3. Abu Dhabi
4. Ajman
Shaikh Said bin Maktum, O.B.E.
Shaikh Sultan bin baqr al Qasimi
Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan bin
Zayid.
Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid.
5. Umm al Qaiwain Shaikh Ahmad bin Rashid.
6. Ras al Khaimah Shaikh Sultan bin Salira.
7. Kalba Shaikh Hamad bin Said (Minor)
Regent, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad.
(ii) On the 24th May Shaikh Muhammad bin Hamad
ash-Sharqi of Fujairah married the daughter of the
Shaikh of Ajman and left for Pujairah on the 25th of
July.
(iii) The Ruler of Dubai, Shaikh Said bin Maktum,
O.B.E., visited the 'Ain Khamir hot springs'in Persia.
He was away from Dubai from the 26th May to the 18th
June.
(iv) The Ruler of Ras al Khaimah, Shaikh Sultan
bin Salim, came . to Bahrain by air from Sharjah on the
12th June and stayed with His Highness the Ruler of
Bahrain. He concluded an oil concession agreement
with Messrs. Petroleum Concessions Limited and returned
to Sharjah on the 22nd June.
(v) On the 18th June the Ruler of Ajman, Shaikh
Rashid bin Humaid, accompanied by his elder son Ali,
paid a visit to His Highness the Sultan of Muscat,
returning to Ajman on the 7th July. They travelled
both ways by car.
(vi) Later in the year on the 25th September
the Ruler of Dubai, Shaikh Said bin Maktum, O.B.E.,
went to Muscat by launch and stayed with His Highness
the Sultan. He returned to Dubai on the 21st October.
(vii) The Shaikhs of Fujairah and Bakha also
paid visits to His Highness the Sultan of Muscat at
the latter's invitation.
(b) BRITISH INTERESTS .
(i) Mr. G.R. Shea was the Station Manager of
the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Sharjah, from the
1st January to the 8th May-when he was relieved by
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
- Arrangement
There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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