File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
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The record is made up of 1 item (91 folios). It was created in Jun 1905-Jan 1912. 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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Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The correspondence is between the Foreign Office, 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 Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Company and the British India Steam Navigation Company, and numerous political and diplomatic offices in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
The papers cover the discussion over who and how Turkish mail is to be carried to Hassa [al-Hasa] from Basra, and an agreement with the Shaikh of Bahrain preventing him from establishing a foreign post office in his country.
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- 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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- P 1508/1905 Pt 3
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- Jun 1905-Jan 1912 (CE, Gregorian)
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- BasraAl-Hasa
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- General Post OfficeGray, MacKenzie and Company, shipping agentsBritish India Steam Navigation Company Limited
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- Title
- File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
- Pages
- 139r:139v, 118v:119r
- Author
- Mackenzie, Sir George Sutherland
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- Title
- File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
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- 131v, 120r:120v
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- Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited
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- ©P&O Heritage
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- IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
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- File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
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- 97v
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- British India Steam Navigation Company Limited
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- ©P&O Heritage
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- IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
- Title
- File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
- Pages
- 77r:97r, 98r:118r, 119v, 121r:131r, 132r:138v, 140r:166v
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