Sub-sub-series

File 8 Miscellaneous

Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/2/121-126

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This record is about the File 8 Miscellaneous dating from 1921-1931.

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Reference: IOR/R/15/2/121-126
Title: File 8 Miscellaneous
Date: 1921-1931
Description: The Miscellaneous files cover a variety of topics arising in Bahrain during the 1920s; the response to political reforms carried out by the Political Agent Major Clive Daly in the early 1920s; challenges facing Bahrain's pearling industry, specifically declining profitability and pressures for its modernisation; the running and reform of the Bahrain customs house; lighting and bouying in the Bahrain port; slave trading incidents in Bahrain; criticism in Persian newspapers of Britain's policy in Bahrain.
Arrangement: These files are arranged by file number. For example, 8/2 where 8 is the subject reference (miscellaneous), and 2 is the file number. Not all the files relating to the subject had survived. Consequently there are gaps in the sequence.
Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Arabic; English; Persian
Physical description: 6 files and volumes (560 folios)
Access conditions: Unrestricted
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fd81d946-cb2a-41be-9980-0327fbaa6f71/

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File 8 Miscellaneous