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'File 9/4 Bahrain Reforms. Introduction of Reforms in Bahrain' [‎75v] (167/224)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (98 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1921-27 Jul 1924. 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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5. Leave. —(a) Casual leave. —The Director shall be entitled to a maxi
mum of twenty days casual leave on full pay per 3^ear of which not more
than seven (7) days shall be taken at any one time. Casual leave may onlv
be taken in the year in which it is due and may not be accumulated or added
to other leave (public holidays excepted).
(5) Privilege Leave. —The Director shall be allowed thirty (30) davs'
Privilege Leave on average pay for any complete year of service. Privilege
Leave shall be reckoned as commencing on the date of arrival of the up or
down steamer by which the Director leaves Bahrain for Busrah or Karachi
respectively, and ending on the date of departure of the up or down
steamer by which the Director arrives at Bahrain from Karachi or Busrah
respectively.
(c) Furlough. —The Director shall be allowed ninety (90) days' furlough
on half average pay for every complete year of service. Provided that no fur
lough shall be allowed until the Director has served four years from the
date of appointment (seventh day of Jamal-i-Thani A. H. 1342) or from
date of last return to duty from furlough.
If the Director so desires furlough on half average pay may be com
muted to furlough on average pay for half the period due.
[d) Any additional leave taken at any time shall be without pay.
{e) The period spent on furlough commuted furlough or leave without
pay shall not count as service for purposes of calculating Privilege leave fur
lough or commuted furlough nor shall it be included in the five years service
entitling the Director to payment of Provident Fund upon retiring [vide
clause (2)) or in the five years service exempting the Director from repav-
ment of the passage money referred to in clause (7) below.
Explanation. —For the purpose of clause (5) average pay means the
average monthly pay earned during the twelve completed months imme
diately preceding the commencement of Privilege Leave or Furlough.
6 Remuneration. —So long as the Director remains in the service of the
Government of Bahrain he shall not carry on any trade on his own or any
one else's behalf or receive any remuneration for services rendered to any
other party without the previous consent of the Bahrain Government.
7. Passage Money. —In the event of the Director's services being dis
pensed with through no fault of his own the Government of Bahrain shall
pay the cost of first class passages from Bahrain to England for the Direc
tor his wife and family. In the event of the Director resigning his appoint
ment (except on medical advice) before completing five years of actual ser
vice he shall refund to the Government of Bahrain the cost of his first-class
passage from England to Bahrain.
8. Termination of services.—This Agreement shall be terminated.
{a) by either party upon giving three months' previous notice and upon
stating the reasons for such termination in writing or
{h) by the Director reaching fifty-five years of age (provided that in
the case of the present Director an extension up to sixty years
may be granted on production of a certificate of fitness for
further service from the 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. Surgeon at Bushire) and
(c) by the Director absenting himself from duty without the sanction
of the Government of Bahrain.
Otherwise it shall and hereby does remain in force with retrospective
effect from the seventh day of Jamal-i-Thani A. H. 1342 (being the four
teenth day of January A. 13. 1924) on which day the Director's services with
the Government of Bahrain commenced.
/ t ^ witness whereof the Deputy Governor of Bahrain (on behalf of the
Bahrain Government) has set his seal and the Director has set his hand
this
the
day of
day of
in the year A. H. 1342, being
A. D. 1924.
Bahrain in the presence of . .
SEALED by the Deputy Governor of
Lewis-de Grenier in the presence of
SIGNED by the said Claud Cranbrook
<3CP Delhi—L XI—899—3 4-24-7.

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The volume contains printed copies of Government of India confidential correspondence, relating to the Bahrain reforms. The majority of the letters contained in volume are printed copies of correspondence originally sent to the Government of India either 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Trevor or Acting Resident Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Knox), or 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 (Major Clive Daly). Much of the correspondence featured in the volume can be found in the original (or as office copies) in a number of files in the two Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. subsubseries ‘File 9 Bahrain Reforms’ (IOR/R/15/2/127-138) and ‘File 8 Miscellaneous’ (IOR/R/15/2/121-126), and the Bushire 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. subsubseries ‘File 19 Bahrain’ (IOR/R/15/1/314-77).

The printed correspondence contained in the volume covers a range of subjects:

  • Events leading up to the programme of reforms carried out in Bahrain: allegations of the oppression of Bahraini subjects by members of the Āl Khalīfah family, violence, the deteriorating economic situation;
  • The reforms proposed and implemented by British officials: replacement of Shaikh ‘Īsá by Shaikh Ḥamad as defacto ruler, economic reforms, judicial reforms, pearl diving industry reforms, customs house reforms;
  • Specific incidents of violence involving Sunnis and Shias, or Najdis and Persians.

Some of the papers in the volume are accompanied by duplicate copies:

  • Folios 61-64 are duplicates of folios 57-60;
  • Folios 68-69 are duplicates of folios 66-67;
  • Folios 81-84 are duplicates of folios 77-80.
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1 volume (98 folios)
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The volume's contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, starting with the earliest items at the front and finishing with the latest items at the end.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . Most of the items in the volume are printed items that have their own internal pagination systems, using printed numbers in the top-right corners of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages and the top-left corners of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages, or centred at the top of both verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. and recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages. The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f.

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