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'File 10/1 G BAPCO labour' [6r] (15/586)
The record is made up of 1 volume (293 folios). It was created in 2 Nov 1938-4 May 1944. 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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Confidential
D«0« No. 0/718-10/1.0.
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
Bahrain, 22nd November 1938.
*
(
Will you please refer to your demi-official letter
No. 605-3 dated the 18th November 1938°
2. Actier was taken exactly as instructed in your
letter No. 366-3 dated the 10th June 1938 and the arrange
ments referred to in paragraph 3 of that letter are in
working order. In fact I understand that the Personnel
Department has under examination at present a list of
suggestions put forward by the Representatives of the
Company's Indian employees.
3. I am sorry that no report has been sent to you
earlier but you did not ask for a reply and as action
had been taken on your instructions I did not think it
necessary to report.
Yours sincerely,
t
Honourable Lieuten mt-Colonel
Sir Trenchard Fowle, K.C .I .S., C.B.S.,
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 the Persian Qulf,
Bu shire.
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- Content
The volume mainly contains correspondence between 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, 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, the Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives and staff of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the conditions and benefits requested by BAPCO employees, and on a special 'War Allowance' agreed by BAPCO to meet the increased cost of living.
The volume includes correspondence on members of the Afghan royal family refuged in India and seeking for employment in Bahrain (folios 43-46); list of food prices 'prewar price' and 'present price' (folio 68); memorandum on 'The strike situation as on 28 December 1943' (folio 209).
There are some letters in Arabic in the volume. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 270-283).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (293 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 271-283). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner. It begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 2, and runs through to 291, ending on the inside of the back cover. There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.
- Written in
- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/2/408
- Title
- 'File 10/1 G BAPCO labour'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 3r:10v, 14r:15v, 17r:19v, 20v, 22r:23v, 35r:46v, 48r:50v, 52r:53v, 57r:58v, 59v:60v, 61v:67v, 69r:69v, 82r:91v, 92v:94v, 100r:101v, 103r:107v, 109r:114v, 120r:124v, 125v:131v, 136r:138v, 144r:155v, 162r:163v, 169r:172v, 174r:174v, 179r:184v, 185v, 189r:189v, 195v:199v, 200v:211v, 213v:226v, 227v:228v, 234r:243v, 252r:252v, 253v:255v, 256v:262v, 263v, 265r:265v, 266v, 267v:290v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence