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'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency' [15r] (35/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1934-13 Jun 1949. 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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No. 219/V.O.
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Balir- in, the 2'th •' a:; 1930.
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The Secretary to the Honourable
The Political Besidont in tlic Portion Qulf,
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In the course of ny ner;otiationc v/ith the Shaikh
of Kalha on the afternoon of the 10th 1’sy the Shallch oaid
that about seven days previously a : no cat State car had
een laft ln the village for tv/o or three days and the
driver was boarded free by hta but had been a nuisance
and not behaved hinself with decorua. fhe day before the
car returned to .uscat the Shaikh tod soon the driver
conversing with a servant of his by none of FaroJ and the
day after the car left the servant ran array to lucent
taking with hin gold omanento the property of tlic Shaikh
worth 500
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, the Shaikh ' elievec that the driver
persuaded the nan to conmit the tlieft#
2. I do not think there is ruch aubetaaee in the Shailth'a
complaint but as it was made to me I foci that it should
bS ’ aSSed 0n f ° r ^ action «^t be considered desirable
Certain,
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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.
, Ualirain.
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The file contains correspondence and papers relating to a number of miscellaneous slave matters, brought to the attention of, or communicated from, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, including the following: an incident involving a Persian [Iranian] man, who had previously been convicted of selling alcohol in Bahrain, and had tried to re-enter the country with forged papers (folios 3-7); correspondence with the 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. Agent at Sharjah regarding a man instructed to return from Sharjah to his native India, but who had absconded without notice to Bahrain or Qatar (folios 8-14); complaints by the Shaikh of Kalba over the theft of gold ornaments by one of his servants (folios 15-19); copies of an article (sent to the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. by the Bahrain merchant Yūsuf Kanoo) that appeared in the Cairo newspaper Al Shabab (30 June 1937), criticising the Bahrain Government's policy of the compulsory sale of land under foreign (but specifically Saudi, not British) ownership (English translations of the article are on folios 25-26 and 27-29, with an Arabic version on folios 30-31); slave manumission statistics for the region under the jurisdiction of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , April 1948-March 1949 (folio 36).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (48 folios)
- Arrangement
The correspondence and other items in the file have been arranged in chronological order, from the earliest at the front of the file, to the latest at the end. Office notes (ff 39-44) at the end of the file mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 45; 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. The file contains three foliation anomalies: f 1a, f 1b and f 1c.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/1841
- Title
- 'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1br, 1b v, 1cr:1cv, 2r:3v, 6r:23v, 32r:44v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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