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I he following files were the most useful for this study:

Slave Trade: vols 199-234
Arab Coast and Islands: vols 239-94
Arab Coast Miscellaneous
Judicial: vols 295-312
Bahrain: vols 314-77
Muscat: vols 408-47
Kuwait: vols 478-85, 513-49

Rji$\2 Bahrain Political Agency

The Agency at Bahrain had three separate offices: the Confidential
Office, the English Office and the Vernacular Office. The files
of the Confidential Office were based on a subject-file system:
each subject was given a number and each file on the subject
a part number. The files are organised at the India Office Records
according to the three different methods of classification used, at
different times, at the Agency. The groups are as follows: 1899-1921,
files R/15/2/1-72; 1921-32, files R/15/2/73—138; and 1932-50, files
R/15/2/139-916. The English Office files (R/15/2/946-1823) run from
1907 to 1950 and are organised on the same basic principles as
the Confidential Office files (i.e. by subject). The Vernacular Office
files (R/15/2/1824-1980) contain two different kinds of correspon­
dence: first, consular and judicial; and, second, translations of docu­
ments sent and received by the Agency.
For the present study, the most valuable files from the different
offices were those in the following subject groups:

Confidential
Political Administration
Bahrain State
Saudi Relations
Shipping
Diaries
Trucial Coast
Qatar
Arab Coast
Slavery
Royal Air Force
Saudi Arabia
Treaties
Visits