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Further reforms, 1924-1927 207

FOREIGN AND POLITICAL DEPARTMENT,
D.O.No.36-X.
Simla, the <25$ July 19 24.

Bahrein reforms.

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Please refer to the correspondence ending with
your telegram No.596, dated 2nd May.

The Government of India welcomed the proposal that
reforms should be introduced into the Administration of
Bahrain, but had no desire to proceed further or faster

than they could carry the Sheikh whole heartedly with
them. On seeing the details of the schemes actually
recommended they have felt that both the Political
Resident and the Political Agent Bahrain have shown a

tendency to treat the island too much on the lines of a
Native State in India, and I shall be glad of an ex­
pression of your views on the case looked at from this
aspect both as regards the reforms already introduced

and those still contemplated.

Sd. C.Latimer.

To
The Hon'ble
Lieutenant-Colonel F.B.Prideaux, C.S.I., C.I.E.,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire.