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'File 6/73 Live Stock' [12r] (23/136)
The record is made up of 1 file (66 folios). It was created in 20 Sep 1939-29 Jul 1941. 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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Office of the I’oXitloal heeident
la the rereian Gulf*
L.T.Hearohue, At t»€e#
D«0»Ho« /
)at€d the i8th February, 194C»
iy dear 0aroe 9
Despite an unusual diet oonslstin^ largely of salt
fish 9 datest and a little lueerne 9 Bahrain has been oelebrated
for an unusually good breed of aileh oattie• In September
last f howeTer 9 fceightzsan wrote to ae and said that it was
steadily deteriorating swing to the attentions of scrub bulls
and local ignorance and prejudices' and obserred that it would
be easy to get a Cattle Breeding Faro going in Budaiya if
only we could enlist the Interest of the Shaikh, and he
wondered whether Kio acelleney the Viceroy, whose interest
in Anlz&al Husbandry is well known, would oonsider presenting
a stud bull to His Highness in order to launoh the cattle
breeding establishaeut. The Shaikh would, he said, be
delighted, and if sponsored in this way the scheme would
receive the fullest support*
2, when Z was in Delhi in Kovember 1 mentioned the
proposal ts His >xcsXlenoy ; who appeared to view it favour*
ably, but he told me that in addition to the figures of
the height which 1 hud secured, the details of the colour
of the skin and hair and, if possible, photographs showing
the type of oattls would hays to ot produced* 1 have now
obtained them, and enclose them together with the photo*
graphs in ease His Excellency is disposed to pursue the
matter* The Bahrain Government would* of course, meet
o*K # Caro€ Esquire, G.I.S*,
secretary to the Government of India,
External Affairs Department,
Hew Delhi*
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The file contains correspondence relating to the import of livestock in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly 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. , Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, later Captain John Baron Howes (acting)), 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 Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), and various departments and offices of the Government of India.
The papers include:
- correspondence between Belgrave, Weightman, Prior, and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India regarding a proposal to establish a cattle breeding farm in Bahrain;
- correspondence between Belgrave, Weightman (later Howes), the Department of Education, Health and Lands of the Government of India, and various offices within the Sind Secretariat (including Director of Agriculture, Live-stock Officer, Revenue Department, and the Director of Veterinary Service) concerning the transportation of a Red Sind bull to Bahrain;
- a letter from the California Wool Growers Association requesting photographs of sheep breeds in Bahrain;
- correspondence between Belgrave, Howes, Prior, the Sind Secretariat, and the All India LiveStock Supply Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Karachi regarding Belgrave's proposal to import goat stock into Bahrain.
Folios 63-67 are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (66 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; 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 2-60; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: the volume also contains a pagination sequence, written in pencil, between ff 63-66.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/1292
- Title
- 'File 6/73 Live Stock'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:7v, 10r:13v, 15r:34v, 36r:36v, 38r:39v, 43r:50v, 52r:55v, 57r:58v, 60r:67v, 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