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'File 8/9 Bahrain Government Annual Report' [32r] (68/298)
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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The present council of education v/ill be abolished
and a new committee will be appointed consisting of Shias
and Sunnis. This change, which has already been discussed
with both parties, and approved by them, is an interesting
political advance as some years back such a combination in
a matter which concerns schools, in which questions of
religion are involved, would have been an impossibility.
The President, as before, will be Shaikh Abdulla, but the
committee itself will have no power to decide the question
of pay or of appointments of masters. It is hoped that
when these changes are made the condition of the schools
will improve and the public will not feel, as they do now,
that a great proportion of the very large sums that have
been spent on education up till now have been spent with
very little result.
The Shia Schools . The Jaffarieh (Shia) school in Man-
amah has occupied its new building for over a year. It
is managed by a committee, who are mostly illiterate but
influential umder the
presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
of Syed Ahmed bin Syed
Aloui, a much respected Bahrain merchant. The Shia Kadi,
Shaikh Abdulla bin Mohomed Saleh, an unexpectedly broad
minded cleric, takes an active interest in its progress
and frequently visits the classes. The teachers are
mostly Irakis as the Shias in Bahrain are even less able
to furnish educated men than the Arabs, never before having
had schools of their own. The progress of the school has
been fairly satisfactory although owing to quarrels among
the committee, and some misunderstanding over the adjust
ment of the classes, the attendance has diminished lately.
There is a small subsidiary school at Suk al-Khamis,
a centre near several villages, which attended by the chil
dren of the
fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
. It is difficult to persuade them
to educate their children as from a very early age they
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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)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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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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- Title
- 'File 8/9 Bahrain Government Annual Report'
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- 6r:69v, 73r:134v
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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