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'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency'

Title	'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency'
Author	an agent. in Bahrain
Publication Date:	29 Dec 1934-13 Jun 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Document
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	48
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	IOR/R/15/2/1841
Record ID	vdc_100000000282.0x000240
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	29 Dec 1934-13 Jun 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	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).
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
Düzenleme	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.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)	Vernacular Office Files: A/3

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'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency'

Author an agent. in Bahrain

Publication Date 29 Dec 1934-13 Jun 1949 (CE, Gregorian)

Type Document

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 48

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID IOR/R/15/2/1841

Record ID vdc_100000000282.0x000240

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 29 Dec 1934-13 Jun 1949 (CE, Gregorian)

Notes 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).

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

Düzenleme 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.

Eski Harici Referans(lar) Vernacular Office Files: A/3