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'File 8/9 Bahrain Government Annual Report' [‎30r] (64/298)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (145 folios). It was created in 16 Jul 1930-11 Jul 1931. 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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caused a great deal of excitement. Public petitions were
organised, deputations called the Shaikh and schoolboys
broke into the Muharrak school and destroyed a quantity
of furniture and fittings. The Kozaibis and others sug
gested, as a threatjthat they would open a new school in
opposition to the Government schools.
4 In ten days the schools were re-opened,at first the
attendance was small but within a month it reached the
normal number. Throughout the affair most of the parents
of the boys protested that they did not approve of their
sons f behaviour but they were powerless to stop it or
to send them back to school. It is an actual fact that
here in Bahrain, with a few exceptions, from the family
of the Ruling Family downwards, quite small boys are
absolutely independent of their fathers 1 wishes.
Newspaper attacks . The departure of the two masters
was promptly followed by a series of abusive and anti-
English articles in Iraki, Persian and Syrian newspapers.
Their vituperation was mostly directed against the poli
tical agent in Bahrain and the British policy in Bahrain.
The pe? reason for the masters dismissal was given as being
their refusal to make English the teaching language of the
schools, jealousy of the English at the success of the
Arab schools and the wish of the English to forbid the
teaching of religion. These, and other causes, all
of them equally untrue, were circulated by the masters who
remained in Bahrain. Shaikh Abdulla as President of
Education, published a brief notice in f? Al-Iraq Tt ggl contra
dicting the newspaper statements and stating the reason
for the masters dismissal. Some articles were also pub
lished giving a true account of the circumstances in
respectable newspapers.

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The volume contains the annual Government of Bahrain reports for the years AH 1348 and 1349. Both reports include budgets for the upcoming year and are written by the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave.

The reports are submitted by Belgrave to 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, Charles Geoffrey Prior, who then forwards them to 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire. The correspondence relating to this process are included in the volume.

The 1348 report (folios 8-68), submitted in July 1930, is divided into sections corresponding to a particular subject, as follows: Budget 1349; Notes on Budget, for 1349; Notes on Revenue for 1348; Notes on Expenditure; Education; Judicial; Public Works; Wakf Departments; Municipalities; General.

The report includes an index (folio 8) which lists the sections in alphabetical order, with reference to page numbers. Most of these page numbers are not present in the document itself.

The 1349 report (folios 76-134), submitted in July 1931, is divided in a similar way, as follows: Budget 1350; Statements of Receipts and Expenditure; Comparative analysis; The Pearl Industry; Police and Public Security; Land Department; Education; Manamah Municipality; Muharrak [Muharraq] Municipality; Agriculture; Quarantine; Electricity; Press Propaganda; General. There is no index.

Folio 69 is a letter from Belgrave to Prior regarding two Bahraini boys educated at the American University of Beyrout [Beirut].

Folios 135-37 are correspondence between Prior and Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier, Director of Customs at Bahrain, regarding a recent drop in trans-shipment duty in Bahrain.

The volume contains the following photographs:

  • Jaffariah School (folio 45);
  • Manamah-Muharrak [Manama-Muharraq] Bridge (two photographs, folio 46);
  • a new "sea road" north of the Customs House (folio 57);
  • a new quarantine site (two photographs, folio 115).

Folio 116 is a blueprint of the new quarantine.

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1 volume (145 folios)
Arrangement

The volume is arranged chronologically.

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 147; 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 25-70; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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