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enclosing correspondence from Persian Charge d’Affaircs,
15 April 1869; correspondence between the India Office and the
Foreign Office on the drafting of Lord Clarendon’s statement,
21 April 1869-16 June 1869 [IOR: L/P&S/3/74]
2.03 Attack on Bahrain by Muhammad b. Khalifah and Nasir b.
Mubarak; death of ‘All b. Khalifah and overthrow of
Muhammad b. Khalifah by Muhammad b. ‘Abdullah;
British intervention under the Resident in the Gulf,
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly; accession of Shaikh ‘Isa b.
‘Ali, Septcmber-December 1869 167
Pclly’s despatches to the Government of Bombay, with
enclosures, 16 August, 11 & 25 September, 5 & 22 October
1869 [IOR: L/P&S/9/15]
Commodore L. G. Heath to the Viceroy and Governor-
General, 1 January 1870, enclosing letter from Commander
G. A. Douglas, Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf, 4 December
1869; Lieutenant-Colonel L. Pelly to the Government of
Bombay, 9 December 1869, with enclosures; further letters
from Pelly to the Government of Bombay, 9 & 13 December
1869 with enclosures [IOR: L/P&S/5/264]
Bahrein Island, Wahabee Coast, Guttur Coast: Map to
accompany letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly,
9 December 1869 [IOR: W/L/P&S/5/358 (i)] (See Map Box:
map 04)

2.04 Persian and Turkish claims to Bahrain, 1870-1874 289
Persian protests with regard to affairs at Bahrain: Lieutenant-
Colonel Lewis Pelly to the Government of Bombay,
18 December 1869, with enclosures; C. U. Aitchison,
Officiating Secretary to the Government of India Foreign
Department, to R. Thomson, Charge d’Affaires, Tehran,
22 February 1870; Viceroy and Government of India to
Secretary of State for India, 22 February 1870, with a summary
of the history of Bahrain and the Persian claim from the
records of the Foreign Department [IOR: L/P&S/5/264]
Foreign Office memorandum on the separate claims of Turkey
and Persia to sovereignty over the island of Bahrain, 23 March
1874 [IOR: L/P&S/18/B9]

2.05 Zubarah, 1874-1878: Bahraini relations with Qatar; the
activities of Nasir b. Mubarak; the destruction of Zubarah 369
Enclosures to Secret Letters from India, No. 191 of 23 October
1874 and No. 222 of 18 December 1874 [IOR: L/P&S/5/277]
The destruction of Zubarah, 1878: Journal of political events
beyond the Indian frontier for December 1878; Journal of
political events on the West and North-West frontier for
January 1879 [IOR: L/P&S/7/21]

2.06 Anglo-Turkish rivalry: the British Agreement with Bahrain,
405
Intention of the Turks to establish a coal depot at Bahrain;
agreement signed by the Chief of Bahrain not to have dealings
with foreign powers or allow establishment of their agencies or
coal depots, 1880 [from J. A. Saldanha’s Precis of Bahrein affairs,
1854-1904 (Simla, 1904), IOR: L/P&S/20/C241, pp. 67-68]