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16 Ashraf’s general merchants: advertising luxury goods for BAPCO
European and American employees and for Bahrain’s emerging middle
class, 1937
with sanitation and electricity. These schemes encountered mixed success.
If on the one hand most of the grants were used for that purpose, on the
other the new dwellings were often rented out at very high prices following
the boom of the rental market. 21
21
The Bahrain Government Annual Reports, 1924–1970: ‘Annual Report for the Year 1371’,
vol. IV, p. 35; ‘Annual Report for the Year 1372’, vol. V, p. 35; Belgrave, Personal Column,
p. 181.
