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'File 19/175 Bahrain - Pearling' [5r] (9/83)
The record is made up of 1 volume (41 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1924-30 Jul 1936. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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31/3/24
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Political Agent
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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.
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Pearling Castoms
Recently 3h&ik Heraiii deputed iiheik Abdulle bin ^se to convene s
Majlis of the leading Nakhudts & to explain to them the new lic«n3 : ng
^ules. The Wskhudas agreed to accept the situation,but brought up
various points for consideration.The most important of these was the
question of interest. Since the commenceiaent of the reforms & the
cessation of the ielifeh Court from inanition .cases regarding accounts
hsve been sent to the Sh^ra'. : coounts have been so bfcdly kept in the
past, or not kept at all,that Shaik Hamad s court .or the Joint Court,
could not possibly deel with them.The accounts^ of%4n^requted going in
to "btfoY* a decision could be retched.In the llr r- court
a compromise of some sort is usually errived r t. The ihar* 1 does not
however r dmit of interest being cherged.lt has been the custom in the
past for the owner^fcf the boats to take a large advrnce of grain from
a merchant et about 20^ interest,repayable after the end of the next
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season. This gr^in the IJakhudf sells to convert into cash with which
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he pays ^isqam 1 to the divers for the following season.On each advance
he ciitorges 2o £ interest in the diver's account. Similarly when the
season is «bout to commence, the Ka .-chuda takes another advance (& custom
s it that he must take it from the seme merchrnt who sdvrnced him ^or
the Tisqam) also at 20^ repay^ible et the end of the season, "ith this
he pays the divers their '3Plaf T . The Nakhuda buys grain & converts
it into c»sh(o- sometimes pays the divers in kind & they have to sell
it at a loss to get cash) because merchants will not advance c^sh,which
would be 1 ram T according to the Shara' but they ere able to satisfy
their consciences pockets) by selling grain at exhorbitant interest,
which they do not consider to be money-lending.
At the end of the season the advances are recovered from the divers
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This file contains correspondence related to the pearling industry of Bahrain and the reforms of the industry that were enacted by the British during the 1920s.
The correspondence discusses the status of the industry prior to the reforms, the nature of the relationship between the ship captains (Nakudas) and the pearl divers and the impact of the reforms - especially their positive impact on the condition of the divers.
An example of a Nakuda's general account is included on folio 16.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (41 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
- Physical characteristics
There is one incomplete foliation sequence and one complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top corner of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and runs through to 42, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
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- IOR/R/15/1/349
- Title
- 'File 19/175 Bahrain - Pearling'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:12v, 15v:19r, 20v:37v, 39v:41v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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