Abstract: The file contains correspondence, mainly between the Bahrain Agency; the British Residency in the Persian Gulf and the Government of India, Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi about the arrangements for officers of the Indian Political Service in the Persian Gulf to sit examinations in Arabic, Persian and other languages. The examination results, amount of language allowance paid to successful examination candidates or fees paid to examiners is given for several officers of the Bahrain Agency, including:Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Agent, Bahrain;Captain Maurice Patrick O’Connor Tandy, Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Sharjah;Gordon Noel Jackson, Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain;Captain John Baron Howes, Political Agent, Bahrain.There is a summary of the language qualifications of all three military officers in civil posts at the Bahrain Agency in 1935: Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Captain George Ashmead Cole and Lieutenant Roy Douglas Metcalfe.The file also contains the 'Rules for the encouragement of the Study of Oriental Languages' by officers serving directly under the Government of India, 1927, 1933 and 1940, as published in Government of India circulars issued by the Department of Education, Health and Lands.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1-89, 89A, 89B, 90-167, 168A, 168B, 169A, 169B, 170-299. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 299). Folios 2 and 3 are blank. Folio 13 is a blank folio on which a written document (folio 12) is stuck down. Folios 89A and 89B are correction slips, stuck down on folio 89. Folios 168B and 169B are also correction slips stuck down on folios 168A and 169A respectively. Folio 170 is blank on the recto and has writing on the verso.As a result of two earlier, secondary foliation sequences, folios 23 to 274 are also numbered 114 to 366 in pencil in the top right corner. Similarly, the earlier file notes (folios 276-291) are also paginated 1 to 21, again in pencil and in the top corner.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence 1943-1945, between the Political Agent, Bahrain, the Political Officer, Sharjah and the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire about the examination rules, papers and results for the spoken and written proficiency in the Persian language, of clerks employed at the Political Agency, Bahrain.The file also includes:Rules for the clerical establishment examinations in colloquial Persian and Arabic, 1943-1944;Oral and written examination question and answer papers in English and Persian, 1945;Persian examination results of four clerks, 1943 and 1945.Physical description: The foliation sequence is in pencil, uncircled and in the top right hand corner. It begins on the page following the front cover and ends on the back cover. There are also circled index numbers in red ink and crayon.Condition: two correction slips (folios 2A-2B) are partly stuck down over superseded text on folio 2.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire about improving and regularly testing the typing speed of several clerks and munshis employed at the Political Agency, Bahrain.File correspondence consists mainly of lists of the monthly typing test results for several clerks and munshis at Bahrain, as reported to Bushire.Physical description: The foliation sequence is in pencil, uncircled and appears in the top right corner. It commences on the first page following the front cover. There are also circled index numbers in red crayon. The file cover consists of a large, folded, blank sheet.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence in 1944, mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire regarding the arrangements for Reginald Michael Hadow, Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Sharjah to sit the Preliminary Test in the Russian language, in Bombay. The correspondence also mentions Hadow’s examination results and financial award for successfully passing the examination.The file contains further correspondence in 1946, between Reginald Michael Hadow, who was by then British Consul, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire and the Under Secretary, Government of India, External Affairs Department, regarding alternative arrangements for enabling government officers to learn Russian in post-war Europe, other than in the former Baltic States.Also included in the file are two Notifications dated 1 February 1934 and 20 September 1943, issued by the Government of India, Education, Health and Lands Department, containing the revised rules for the encouragement of the study of the Russian language by government officers.The inner front file cover (folio 1A) appears to have been re-used. It has the title ‘Sale of 5 lorries to Bahrain Government by Military’ and file reference number ‘36/56’ written on it and crossed out.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Black, blue and red circled index numbers written in ink and crayon have also been used throughout the file. Foliation errors: 1, 1A and 1B; 8, 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, 8E and 8F. The file has an outer (ff.1, 32) and an inner file cover (ff.1A, 31).Condition: a correction slip (folio 8F) is partly stuck down and obscures text on folio 8E.
Abstract: The file contains one main document: a letter from the Government of India, Defence Department, Army Branch, New Delhi, 23 December 1939, to the Director General, Indian Medical Service (IMS). The letter notifies the Director General of the Government’s decision to suspend departmental examinations for the promotion of Assistant and Sub-Assistant Surgeons of the Indian Medical Department (IMD), for the duration of the Second World War (1939-1945). The letter was copied to The Political Agent, Bahrain and the Medical Officer, Trucial Coast, at Dubai.Physical description: Foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 5.