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'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession' [129r] (270/476)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 31 Jul 1933-4 Oct 1933. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Translation of* Ict'tcp datsdi Jamad. al AuwaJL 1352—
4,9.1933 from H,S.Shaikh Hamad bin f Isa al Khalifah,
C.S.I.jRuler of Bahrain to H.B.M's
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.
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Bahrain,
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f 1 received your letter dated the 2nd Sdpt%ber
1933 to the address of my Adviser enclosing a letter
addressed to me fro'n the Representative of the Petroeum
Company in Bahrain.
^ From this letter I came to understand that
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I Major Holmes will be compelled to vacate his present
l ^lu j position, as the Company wants to make changes about
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their Representative,
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0 In reply to this letter of yours,^I want to
say that if this is an order from the British Government
I am compelled to accept it and would not raise any
Objection about it. But if it is from the Company I
feel very much surprised and ask you to inform the
Company that they ought to consult me and take my views
about Major Holmes,as he was appointed by the Company
with my sanction and the consent of the British
Government,for we considered him to be a very efficient
person,
U X accepted the Respresentative to be an
English man, because I do not want a Representative
other than an English man. Therefore I fail to understanc
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how the Company will be able to change the Represent-
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ative, who was approved by me and/the British Government
without first informing me and taking my views about
him.
It will probably be said that the change was
due to me, for which reason I want to Ae informed about
the matter, as I have some suggestions to make in this
connection, /
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The volume mainly contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between 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. in Bahrain, 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 Bushire, the Secretary of State for India, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Darlymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the Bahrain Oil Concession. The volume also contains correspondence and notes of meetings on the aquisitition of oil rights over an additional area, including the territorial waters of the Bahrain Islands. There are also letters in Arabic to and from the Sheikh of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifah, and confidential correspondence regarding the resignation of Major Holmes from Chief Local Representative of BAPCO, and the translation of a speech read in his honour by Ali bin Hussein (folios 201-203). Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 217-227).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 217-227). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in ink crayon or pencil, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation sequence is circled in pencil, at the top of each folio. It begins on the first page of writing, on number 2, and runs through to 233, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/391
- Title
- 'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:v-v, 2r:14v, 16r:18v, 19v:26v, 27v:40v, 41v:50v, 51v:53v, 54v, 55v:96v, 100v:108v, 109v, 111v:114v, 116r:121v, 122v:127v, 128v:130v, 131v:171v, 172v, 175v, 177v, 179v:183v, 184v:192v, 193v:199v, 200v:210v, 211v:212v, 213v:232v, 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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- Open Government Licence