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‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’ [28r] (55/736)
The record is made up of 1 file (366 folios). It was created in 13 Aug 1938-19 Mar 1945. It was written in English, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil. 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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Statement of
Havildar
Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard.
N$dir han recorded on the 29th
September 1938,
I am a retired
Havildar
Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard.
of the Indian Army. I retired from
the 2nd Satara Dogra Regiment in 1925. I am at present a
Havildar
Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard.
in the Bahrain State Police. I know pensioner Mohamad '<han.
He was a
Sepoy
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
in the 10th Bn. 16th Punjab Regiment and retired
from that Regiment in 1934. He came to Bahrain in May 1937
and is now employed in the Bahrain Petroleum Comoany Limited
as a butler. He could not draw his pension for more than a year
after arrival in Bahrain as there was delay in the transfer of
his pension papers to Bahrain.
The statement made by iohamd v han is correct and he is
the real person who was granted a pension.
(i.e.
Havildar
Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard.
Nadir han)
Statement of l/Naik Piran Ditta recorded on the 29th
September 1938.
• •
T am a retired L/Naik of the Indian Army and am now
employed in the Bahrain State Police. I know
Sepoy
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
Mohamad Khan
who is a retired
Sepoy
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
of the Indian Army and is now employed
as a butler in the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited. He came
to Bahrain in May last year. He could not draw his pension after
arrival atnBahrain as there was delay in the transfer of his
pension papers to Bahrain.
The statement made by iohamd Khan is correct and he
is the real person who was granted a pension.
?
(i.e.I/Naik Piran Ditta).
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Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: 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 Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’ (IOR/R/15/2/1519).
Papers in the file include:
- copies of monthly statements (submitted by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) of the names of pensioners transferred from the Bahrain Treasury to other Pension Disbursing Offices, and lists of pensions brought on the Check register of the Bahrain Treasury, for months covering period August 1938 to May 1944. Most statements and lists are marked ‘nil’;
- monthly statements of casualties amongst members of OBI, IOM, VC and MC (Order of British India, Indian Order of Merit, Victoria Cross, Military Cross) on the Pension Establishment in the payment of the Bahrain Treasury. Statements are marked ‘nil’;
- circular memoranda from the CMPA and other Government administrations, concerning various aspects of pension payments, such as procedure, policy, overpayments, fraud, pay increases, cases of Indian military pensioners convicted in criminal courts;
- correspondence relating to checks on the identity of individuals claiming pensions, including depositions made by pensioners and supporting statements (recorded at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) and certificates of verification, issued by 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. ;
- papers relating to the transfer of pension payments.
The file also includes: fragments of a pension certificate (ff 131-134) and two complete pension certificates, dated 1933 (ff 283-285) and 1925 (ff 304-305) respectively, the former with an accompanying pension warrant and record of payments (f 286). The pension certificates include terms and conditions printed in English, as well as in a number of other languages used on the Indian subcontinent, including Punjabi, Hindi and Tamil.
An invoice is included in the file, dated 19 May 1932 (f 339), which has no obvious relation to surrounding correspondence, and was presumably included in the file in error.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (366 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 347-367) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- 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 368; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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 2-346; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1520
- Title
- ‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
- Pages
- 28r:28v, 107r:107v
- Author
- Ditta, Naik Piran
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