Publication Date
17 Sep 1926-26 Feb 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
276
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1415
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x000096
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
17 Sep 1926-26 Feb 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding staff, pay and allowances at the Post Office in Bahrain. The main subjects are: request for increase of pay from the Post Master at Bahrain, due to the high cost of living and the increased workload; allowance to the Post Office employees in Bahrain and Muscat; employment of two extra clerks in 1939 at the Bahrain Office.
The file also contains correspondence on repairs requested for the Post Office building at Bahrain in 1939, which was then transferred to another building, rented from the Bahrain Government. Copy of the lease agreement is included in the file (folios 230-231)
The correspondents are: the Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Division, at Karachi; the Director of Post and Telegraphs, Lower Sind and Baluchistan Circle, at Karachi (Rao Bahadur G N Naidu); the Post Master at Bahrain (Zafar Husain); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
; 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 file contains a petition in Arabic, requesting to retain in post the Postman at Bahrain, and another letter in Arabic with English translation, from a Postman in Bahrain.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 247-278. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office Files: 14/3 I