Author
the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and
Publication Date
19 Dec 1934-7 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
353
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1759
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x0001ee
Library Location
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.
Date
19 Dec 1934-7 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file contains correspondence related to the purchase of books by the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Bahrain, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals. The documents in the file are advertisements, orders for books and periodicals, cheques, and receipts of payment.
The principal correspondents are:
The Times
; The Times Book Club; F P Baker & Co Limited; Durrant's Press Cuttings; Luzac & Company and various printers and booksellers in the United Kingdom; and 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.
The documents in the file date from 19 December 1934 to 17 May 1937. The file contained notes from a later file on 'Supply of Books and Periodicals' (after folio 10); these notes, which refer to documents from 22 July 1945 to 7 December 1950, have been removed and re-housed at the end of IOR/R/15/2/1761.
There are some documents in Arabic within the file: a letter in Arabic and English, to the Lebanese newspaper
Al Nida
; receipts from a book shop in Bahrain.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are file notes at the end of the file, on folios 324-354. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office Files: 31/2