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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [67r] (135/1077)
The record is made up of 1 file (535 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1933-21 Feb 1941. 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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(ii) in the Inst four issues of the 5, Al Bahrain”
fifteen publicity articles totaling 12 columns supplied
by the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, have been published.
(iii) Recently there have been aonormal exports of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
from Bahrain to Hasa and Kuwait, and the Manama
bazaar is flooded with Saudi riyals. In the past month
something like half a milliom riyals have been brought
into Bahrain and exchanged here for
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
. The reason
is apparently a lack of confidence ■■n Hasa in the stabi
lity of the riyal.
118. frucial Coast
Reference paragraph lab of my Intelligence Summary
Ho. 20 of 1939.
Barly in the month it seemed that an attack on
Dubai by Bedouin led by Shaikh Mana might have to be
expected fairly shortly. Mana> and hir adherents appa
rently ncid the support or a suo-seu^ion of the Beni Kitab
and intrigue based on Sharjah was rampant.
Shaikh Said however who still has considerable
personal popularity in Dubai, has succeeded in rallying
various sections in the town to his support and has
strengthened his position by re-establishing alliances
with Umm ai faiwain, Ajman and the Shaikh of the Beni
Kitab.
119. Meteorological
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96.3 on the 2nd November
O Ml
Maximum temperature ..
Minimum temperature .. 66.l u on the 8th November
Humidity exceeded 70 % on 14 days, the max:mum being
93 % on hhe 9th November.
Bahrain,
The 20th November 1939.
So/- Ho Weightman.
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.
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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
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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the years 1933-40. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the 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. , and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. There are occasional hand-written comments in the margins of the reports.
The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following topics:
- Shipping
- The movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables
- Local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the wider Middle East
- Economic matters and food supplies
- Bahrain Petroleum Company and other matters related to the oil industry
- Transport accidents
- The Bahrain ruling family
- Tensions between Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- The pearl trade
- Workers' strikes in Bahrain
- Local crime
- The slave trade
- Regional boundary disputes
- The impact of the beginning of the Second World War in Bahrain and local reaction to events in the war
- Weather and meteorological data.
A photograph of Charles Belgrave and the French Naval Officer, Contre Amiral Rivet is contained on folio 388. It was taken when the French Sloop Bougainville visited Bahrain on 14-16 February 1935.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (535 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 537; 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 3-537; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:387v, 389r:537r, 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