File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget' [83r] (176/382)
The record is made up of 1 volume (187 folios). It was created in 1 Sep 1924-11 Sep 1931. 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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British Hesider.cy,
Bushire, the 26th June 1330.
Please refer to your D.0.Uo.F.24l/lj/29 of 30th April 1930,
regarding tiie education of certain Banrain students.
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.
have expressed a view that it would be
preferable that these students should not be educated at an
American University, and in Ache son’s D.O. dated 13th November,
1929, it was suggested that they might possibly be sent to
Aligarh. I preferred the idea of Baghdad for the reasons
given in my D.0« ITo. P.S.8 of 14th December 1929, namely that
at Baghdad they would be educated in an Arab atmosphere and
in the Arabic language. Prior went up shortly afterwards
to Baghdad and discussed the matter with the Inspector-General
of Education in ’Iraq and the latter said that he could not
honestly recommend any of the ’Iraq schools with the exception
of the American Mission school run by a man called Van Bss at
Basrah. This school has the reputation of being extremely
well run and on the whole I should prefer Baghdad to Beirut
as being a less ’westernised’ city and education there would
be a great deal cheaper for the State. It is however open to
the same objection as has been raised to Beirut, that it is an
American institution. Further Shaikh Hamad appears to have an
objection to Basrah because some boy who was sent there got
ill and in consequence he has regarded the place as being un-
healthy ever since, and if he was opposed to it he could always
advance the argument that it was a missionary institution. I
accordingly wrote to Prior and asked him whetner it would not
be possible for the Bahrain State to start a secondary school,
since I understood that the stmdents at Beirut were by no means
up to university standard and only required a secondary edu
cation. Further you had suggested that it might be a mis
take to withdraw the batch of students from Beirut and that
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Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to the finances of the Bahrain state. The papers cover a number of matters, including the appointment and retention of Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave as Financial Adviser in Bahrain, annual budgets and reports, and the economic situation in the country more generally. Correspondence is between officials at 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. , Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), and Belgrave himself.
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The volume is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; 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 3-72, and between ff 93-122; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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