Publication Date
15 Oct 1944-30 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
336
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1428
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x0000a3
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
15 Oct 1944-30 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The first part of the file contains correspondence, notices and telegrams regarding various subjects:
arrangements for the dispatch of mail and for the despatch of parcels and gifts to the United Kingdom during 1944 and 1945;
restrictions on dispatch of Christmas cards and parcels for prisoners of war in Germany; postcard service to Greece and Belgium, telegraph communications with France; export of jewellery;
revision of rates of air mail fees, delays of post despatch at Cairo, Palestine, Karachi.
The second part of the file contains letters on investigations into parcels missing from the Bahrain Post Office in 1948-1950, containing goods and banknotes. The file contains two copies of a 1948 judgment from the Bahrain Court, in Arabic (folios 209-217).
The third part of the file contains correspondence regarding money order services between banks and Post Offices, within the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and with India and Pakistan.
The principal correspondents are: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); Gray, Mackenzie & Co; Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO); Menashi Ebrahim Cohen & Sons; Petroleum Development Limited; the British Bank of Iran and the Middle East; Lloyds Bank, Karachi; the Eastern Bank Limited; Kuwait Oil Company; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Inspector of the State Police in Bahrain; the
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.
in London; the British Embassy at Tehran; the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle, at Karachi; the Postmaster at Cairo; the Sub-postmaster at Bahrain; and various individuals.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 312-337. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a number in blue and red crayon, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office Files: 14/13
