'File 14/4 Post Office at Moharraq'

Content

The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the need for facilities to convey mail at Moharraq (Muharraq, Bahrain) and the subsequent arrangements for the opening of a Post Office, staffed with a postman sent from Manama via boat twice a week to make deliveries, clean the letterbox and sell stamps. A sketch of the building rented to host the Post Office at Muharraq is on folio 77.

The file also discusses the proposal to open a branch telegraph Office of the Wireless in the Bazaar at Manama, which is refused by the Imperial and International Communications Limited.

The correspondents are: the Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division, at Karachi; Imperial and International Communications Limited, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain; and 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.

Extent and format

1 file (95 folios)

Arrangement

The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 89-96. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give brief description of the correspondence with a reference number.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; 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 3-88; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/1417

Former external reference(s)

English Office Files: 14/4

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Feb 1928-26 Apr 1949 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Postal services

Places

Moharraq

People & organisations

Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and the Persian Gulf, KarachiSub-Postmaster, BahrainAdviser to the Government of BahrainCable and Wireless Ltd

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