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'File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)' [175r] (354/590)
The record is made up of 1 file (292 folios). It was created in 24 Dec 1929-16 Oct 1934. 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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Minute b? k’r.B argali ay August 193^*
This is m ancient question*
up to the end of 19£8 persi an subjects who visited
Bahrein were allowed to land on the strength of a document
called an 5 r ram-o-]Chahar fl , a travel doouraent issued by the
Persian authorities to Persian oubjeots desirous of travel
ling from one Persian port to another. f rhis does not seem
to have been the result of any particular policy or agreement
but was part of the easy-going procedure of those days.
On the other hand Bahreinis had been able, up to
li£ 6 f land in Persia on the strength of travel documents
issued by British or Bahreini officials. This was partly
due to the feebleness of Persian in Strati on and partly
to the fact that iohsjnmerah, where most of the Bahreinis
landed* was tinder the effective control of the Arab Sheikh
JCh&z&l*
furlag 112$ {see the Annual Report for that year)
the Persians began to emphasise their claim to Bahrein by
cancelling the British certificates of identity given to
Bahreinis travelling to Persia end levying fas fines on those
who did not possess Persian identity papers.
pretty exasperated by the Persian appeals to the League, and
in 1928 {see Animal He port for that year, page , 6 ) he
decided that no Persian should be allowed to land in Bahrein
unless he had a proper passport or certificate of identity
signed by a British Consular Officer. The regulation was not
put into force until January 1st* 1929.
After some preliminary rumblings at Bus hire the
This exasperated the Sheikh of Bahrein, already
persi an
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This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat.
The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain; 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 Bushire and other British officials, both in the region and in London.
The file also contains a limited amount of correspondence in Arabic, including letters to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain from Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim, the Emir of Qatar.
On folios 134-135, the file contains a Foreign Office memorandum entitled 'Travel Documents for Persons proceeding to, and for Natives of, Certain British Protectorates and Certain Arab States'.
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- 1 file (292 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 292; 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 9-260; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1748
- Title
- 'File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:8v, 10r:16v, 18r:24v, 29r:32v, 37r:45v, 47r:47v, 49r:87v, 89r:96v, 98r:99v, 101r:119v, 121r:136v, 138r:143v, 145r:182v, 186r:214v, 216r:218v, 222r:258v, 260r:289v, 289ar:289av, 290r:291v, 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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