Abstract: The file contains correspondence related to the Bahrain censuses of 1941 and 1950. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave).Included in the file is the following:correspondence from various departments and offices of the Government of India (Central Publication Branch in Delhi, External Affairs Department, Development Department in Northwest Frontier Province, Governor General in Baluchistan) regarding the procedures required for holding a census;correspondence and public notices from the Government of Bahrain concerning the dates and procedures for each census;requests from the Adviser, Belgrave, for census forms to be completed for staff at the Political Agency (some forms present within the file, folios 74-76);requests for demographic statistics from various offices and institutions, including the United Nations Statistical Office in New York, the World Health Organization in Singapore, and the United States Vice Consulate in Dhahran.Folios 102-112 are internal office notes.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 113; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-49; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments on the figures and tables published by the Tehran Municipality in respect of the Tehran population census of 1933. This is followed by two dispatches written in April 1940 and January 1942 by Reader William Bullard, the British Minister at Tehran. He describes the conduct of the population census of Tehran taken on 1 March 1940, reporting on some of the published census results, as well as press commentary in Persian newspapers.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 9 January and 14 February 1850, concern affairs in the Ottoman Pachalic [Pashalik] of Bagdad [Baghdad]. They comprise correspondence between Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India, Foreign Department; and Sir Stratford Canning, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, Constantinople [Istanbul].The papers cover several matters, including:Kemball's recent request for the presence of East India Company ships at Mohamrah [Khorramshahr] to support the work of the Turco [Ottoman Iraq]-Persian Boundary CommissionThe return of Abdi Pasha [Abdul-Karim Pasha, or ‘Abd al-Karīm Pāshā], the Governor of the Pachalic to Bagdad from Hindieh [Al-Hindiyah]The financial malpractices of former Governor, Nijib Pasha [Mehmed Necib Pasha, or Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā]The announcement by the Ottoman Government of a full census of the population of the Pachalic and the suspicions of the people about the Government's motivation for doing so.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)