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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [152r] (316/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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3. AL KHALIFAH.
His Highness Shaikh Salman continued to take a
keen^interest in the administration of the State. He
continued his urging of the Bahrain petroleum Company
to extract more oil, and also expressed anxiety that
the pearling industry had not recovered the ground lost
during the war, Ee is anxious to raise the standard of
secondary education in Bahrain, and to this end has asked
for the services of a British Director of Education and a
British Headmaster for the Manama Secondary School.
In February His Highness personally inspected the
site where the new customs sheds are to be erected, and
visited the power house in April to start the new 206 ICW
generating set which had arrived at the end of last year.
He wants visitors to carry away a good impression of
Bahrain. When he met Lord Pethick Lawrence on the latter's
return from India in June he expatiated at some length on
the good government and general prosperity that were to be
found in Bahrain.
Shaikh Mohammed bin isa al Khalifah, senior uncle
of His Highness, paid his usual visits to Egypt during
the year, the last one being June-September.
Shaikh Abdullah bin isa al Khalifah, C.I.E., went
on a number of shooting trips during the year. He visited
the mainland on two of these trips.
In February Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed bin Isa
arrived from Jerusalem where he had been studying law
He was appointed a magistrate of the Bahrain court in
April.
A son of His Highness and a son of Shaikh Khalifah
bin Mohammed were among those persons operated on by Sir
Henry Holland when he visited Bahrain in November.
4. EDUCATION .
(i) Number of schools in
existence on 1.1.*46 15
Number of schools in
existence on 31.12.*46 lo
Number of students on
1.1.'46 2,736
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Number of students on
31.12.»46
Number of teachers on
1.1.'46
Number of teachers on
31.12.'46
3,178
137
156
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(ii) Ho ys 1 Schools .
All the schools were filled to capacity during
/the year....
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- Title
- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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