Author
Bahrain of transit dues on cargoes
Publication Date
8 Feb 1933-28 Dec 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
310
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/146
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x000371
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
8 Feb 1933-28 Dec 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file concerns the transhipment of cargo in Bahrain (also referred to as Bahrein) territorial waters, the collection by Bahrain of transit dues on cargoes, and relations between Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Britain.
The correspondence is principally between 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.
, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); 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.
(Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); and 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.
. There is also correspondence from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; and from Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Company, and the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation, agents of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited. Enclosed correspondence from 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.
to 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.
, Bahrain includes correspondence from HM Minister, Jedda [Jeddah]; the Government of India; the Foreign Office; and the Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade.
The papers cover: references to the incident concerning the imposition by Bahrain of transit dues on the SS
Ahmedi
in 1932; the effect of the transit dues on Saudi Arabia, and the attitude of its ruler, Ibn Saud (also referred to as Bin Saud) [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]; the effect of the transit dues on British shipping companies; the possibility that Saudi Arabia might cut out Bahrain by developing Ras Tanurah [Ra’s Tanūrah] as a commercial port, April 1933 - December 1934 (including a rough sketch of the pier at Ras Tanurah from the air, folio 273); a report that Anglo-Persian Oil Company were negotiating with Bin Saud to send shipments of oil direct from Doha to Ras Tanurah, April 1933; and reports of the SS
Fagervich
, which had been chartered to transport rice direct from Rangoon to Ras Tanurah, September 1933. (The dates given refer to main items of correspondence, and may include enclosures of an earlier date.)
The date range gives the covering dates of the main run of correspondence; however, the earliest dated document in the file is a copy of a letter dated 1 February 1933 on folio 10.
The Arabic content of the file consists of two folios only: two copies of a letter from Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler of Bahrain to Shaikh Abdullah bin Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī], Amir of Hasa (al-Aḥsā’).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are filed in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after the relevant covering letter, and terminate in a set of notes (folios 293-307). Serial numbers in pencil and ink in the form 'S. No:' followed by the number, which occur throughout the file, refer to entries in the notes.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Confidential files, 1932-50: I/A/15 II
