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PjO. Ibid., PZ4544/39, Political Resident to India Office, 12 July 1939-
51. Ibid.

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1. L/P&S/20, C252.
2. Ibid., p. 124.
3. Ibid., p. 122.
4. L/P&S/i2/3837, Assistant Political Agent Bahrain to Political Agent
Bahrain, 21 Dec 1938. Enclosed in PZ470/39, Political Resident to
India Office, 9 Jan 1939.
5. Ibid., PZ6291/38, Officiating Political Resident to India Office, 3 Sep
>938-
6. Ibid., Assistant Political Agent Bahrain to Political Agent Bahrain,
21 Dec 1938. Enclosed in PZ470/39, Political Resident to India Office,
9 Jan 1939-
7. Ibid., PZ3616/39, Political Resident to India Office, 9 June 1939 (tele­
gram).
8. K. G. Fcnclon, The Trucial States (Beirut, 1969) p. 76.
9. ‘Rashid—Merchant Prince of the Persian Gulf’, Christian Science Monitor,
9 Aug 1973.
10. R/15/2/1690, Residency Agent to Political Agent Bahrain, 23 Rabi‘
1 1355 (13 June 1936). The document itself was said to be in the
safekeeping of ‘Abd al-Rahman (R/15/294, Political Agent Bahrain to
Assistant Political Resident, 18 Sept 1937).
11. In 1940, following the uneasy truce between Sharjah and Dubai, ‘Abdal­
lah bin Faris was sent to Dubai to discuss the terms for peace. On
his returning, he was found to be trying to smuggle in ammunition
concealed at the bottom of a tin of nails (L/P&S/12/3767, PZ2443/40,
‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 7 of 1940 (1—15 Apr 1940).
12. L/P&S/12/3767, PZ4830/40, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 13
of 1940 (1 — 15 July 1940).
13. These were Kalba, Hirah, Dibba, Fujairah, Dhayd and Hamriyyah.
Hamriyyah, for example, was so strong that in 1937 the Political
Agent in Bahrain, Hickinbotham, suggested that Britain enter into
treaty relations with its headman, Humayd bin ‘Abd al-Rahman, who
had succeeded in 1931 when his father was murdered by his nephew
(R/15/1/277, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident, 5 July 1937).
14. L/P&S/12/3767, PZ4679/38, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 10
of 1938, 16 May -15 June 1938.
15. Ibid., PZ1115/39, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 3 of 1939 (1-15
Feb 1939).
16. Ibid.', PZ7567/39, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 21 of 1939
(1-15 Nov 1939).
17. Copy of letter available in R/i 5/4/1.
18. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Agent Bahrain, 5 Oct 1939.
19. L/P&S/12/3838, Ext. 2236/43, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resi­
dent, 14 May 1944.
20. Ibid.