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File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351 [35r] (74/200)
The record is made up of 1 volume (96 folios). It was created in 3 Jun 1933-27 Jul 1933. 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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Education.
40
The progress of education during the year has been
satisfactory and no disturbances like those which took
place in the past have ocurred.
There are now five boys schools and two girls T
schools and the total average attendance is 644 boys
and girls although 828 are enrolled. Out of the 27
teachers 15 are local and 12 are foreign, the foreign
ones being mostly Syrians. There is undoubtedly some
feeling among the people against the foreign school
teachers but the standard of education is still so low
that it is impossible to obtain satisfactory local
teachers for the higher posts in the schools and it is
impossible to obtain any local women who are capable of
teaching and managing the girls schools.
ijaal^cQiiiatiuii of Dnia aiiu ouimi sciiuOa-S . o^arly
in the year, at the beginning of the present school year,
the Government carried out its intention of amalgamating
the two boys schools in Manamah.
The Manamah girls 1 school was previously housed in
a building which was rented by the Government, the girls f
school was moved into what used to be the Sunni boys
school. It is a large airy house and suitable for a
school, it was purchased as a school by the Government
about ten years ago. Screens were put up in front of
the windows in order to ensure privacy.
The Sunni boys school moved into the big Shia school
on the south of the town which was built by the government
about three years ago. The school is a very fine build
ing and can hold about 300 boys but at the end of the
previous year only about 40 boys were attending and of
these ^uite a number were Sunni. The action of the
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The volume contains the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the Hijri year 1351 AH. The report is written by the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave.
The report was 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, Percy Gordon Loch, who then forwarded it 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 is included in the volume.
The report itself (folios 8-83), submitted in June 1933, is divided into sections corresponding to a particular subject, as follows: Revenue and Expenditure; Pearl Industry; Police and Public Security; Judicial; Land Registrations; Education; Manamah Municipality; Muharraq Municipality; Artesian Wells; Agriculture; Sunni Wakf Department; Shia Wakf Department; Audit; Imperial Airways; Press Propaganda; Counterfeit Coins; Death of Shaikh Sir Isa bin Ali [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], accession of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah]; Bahrain Electric Supply; Customs; General; Miscellaneous.
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- 1 volume (96 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 98; 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 12-83; these numbers are also written in ink, 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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- File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351
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- 6r:83v, 87r:89v
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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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