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'File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency' [‎170r] (339/720)

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The record is made up of 1 file (358 folios). It was created in 16 Jan 1941-15 Feb 1944. 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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Total population
Number of stone houses, amaras and shops
Number of saf houses
Males or females
Literate or illiterate
Nationality and
Religion
The total population of Bahrain was found to number
89,970 persons, of whom 27,835 lived in Hamamah and 17,775
in Muharraq; 74,040 were Bahrainis and 15,930 were foreigners.
(ii) During the months of May and June, 1941, there was
an acute shortage of wheat flour and bread in Bahrain, owing
to shipments of flour from India having been delayed. To
begin with only a few small consignments were received by
dhows but the position subsequently improved when B. I.
steamers resumed a more regular service to Bahrain.
21. Petroleum Concessions Limited
(i) Qatar Exploration
(a) Wells and Drilling
No. 2 well was completed on the 9th June 1941 at a
depth of 6206 ft. at which point a promising oil ,, showing M
was struck.
No. 3 well, about 4 kilometres east of the Company^
Camp at Dukhan, was spudded in on the 1st September 1941 and
by the end of the year had reached a depth of 5138 ft.
There was no production in 1941. A certain amount
of oil from well No. 1 was used on road construction end
maintenance necessary to the Company^ further exploration
operations.
(b) Staff
On an average personnel in Qatar consisted of
8 British
5 American
46 Indians (clerks, artisans, servants)
300 Qataris and other miscellaneous nationals
These figures do not include the Company* s staff
stdioned in Bahrain, viz
2 British
12 Indians (clerks and servants)
20 Bahrainis

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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Office, as well as the reports themselves.

Present within the file are the reports for the years 1940-43. Each Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. report contains a prose statement and sometimes statistics on all or most of the following subjects: Officers; Ruler of Bahrain and the Al Khalifa Family; Bahrain Police; Local Affairs; Bahrain Petroleum Company; Agriculture; Municipalities; Customs; Public Works; Electric Department; Pearling Industry; Boatbuilding and Shipping; British Interests; Post Office; Medical; Judicial; Visits of British Notables; Visits of Foreign Notables; Visits of Arab Notables; Qatar; Petroleum Concessions Limited; Foreign Interests; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Fighter Fund; Accidents Within Port Limits; Education; Royal Air Force Levies; Economic; and Cable And Wireless Ltd. Each subject comes under its own sub-heading. Each report is signed by the officiating 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 the time of submission to 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. at Bushire.

Each report on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. contains information on all or most of the following subjects: Personnel; Trucial Shaikhs; British Interests; Tours; Aviation; Royal Navy; Shipping; Medical; Raids and Disturbances; Oil; The [Second World] War; Red Oxide; Pearling; Fighter Fund; Local Affairs; Royal Air Force Levies; Economics; Security; Population.

Preceding each report is correspondence 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. and the institutions and offices that provided reports and statistics for the final Administration Report. These include: Charles Belgrave, Advisor to the Government of Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer; the Postmaster or sub-Postmaster of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department; doctors and other employees of the American Mission Hospitals (men's and women's), the Victoria Memorial Hospital, and the Medical Department of the Bahrain Government; representatives of Bahrain Petroleum Company and Petroleum Concessions Ltd; the Political Officer at Sharjah; and representatives of The Eastern Bank and Cable and Wireless Ltd.

At the back of the file (folios 355-59) are internal office notes.

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1 file (358 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; 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. A previous foliation, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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