Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1853, dated 14 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-10 and are dated 25 November 1852 to 9 March 1853.Most of the enclosures consist of correspondence regarding ‘disturbances’ in the Bhawulpoor territory [Bahawalpur], in relation to the disputed succession of Saadut (also spelled Sadick Khan in this item) [Ṣādiq III] as Nawab Amir and his deposition by Hajee Khan alias Mahomed Futteh Khan [Muḥammad Fath' Khān], and the possibility of troops being required to be sent into Bhawulpoor territory from Upper Sind [Sindh].The main correspondents are as follows: the Commissioner in Sind (Henry Bartle Edward Frere); the Quarter Master General of the Army; and the Government of Bombay.This item also includes: a letter from HM Envoy at Tehran, Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, forwarding an extract from a recent number of the official
Gazettepublished in Tehran, announcing that an arrangement had been concluded between the Prince Governor of Khorassan [Khorasan] and Alee Khan Seestanee ['Ali Khān Sistanī] for the protection of roads; and a minute by the Governor of Bombay concurred in by the Board, directing that copies of Sheil’s letter be sent to the Commissioner in Sind, the Government of India, and the Secret Committee.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-10, on folios 435-436. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 92 of 1846, dated 5 August 1846. The enclosures are dated 15-27 July 1846.The primary document is a despatch from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Bombay, reporting on the state of affairs in Aden, as follows:The continued peace between the neighbouring tribes of the vicinityHeavy rainfall in the area surrounding Lahidge [Lahej] and ‘only one good rain shower’ in AdenThe Sultan of Lahidge’s proposal to visit Haines in Aden and Haines’s recommendation that the Sultan communicate his wishes by other means due to his age and ‘extreme lameness’ and the expense he would incurHaines’s assertion that the Sultan will only confirm verbally his ‘secret wish’ to appoint his third son as his successor since a more public disclosure would cause conflict between his three senior sonsA report that the French war steamer
Archimedereached Aden from Suez on 7 July, took in 220 tons of coal from the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s depot and proceeded to Bourbon [the island of Réunion] with despatchesThe healthy state of the garrison and inhabitants of Aden.The last two enclosures, the
Bombay Timessummary of Intelligence and
Bombay Overland Courierare noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: The file concerns the rules of succession for the rulers of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit).The papers cover: correspondence dated 1935 between the India Office and Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon of
The Timesconcerning the article on Kuwait for the new edition of the
Statesman's Year Book; letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, Political Agent, Kuwait, dated 14 February 1935, concerning the question of the appointment of an heir to the Shaikh of Kuwait; the question of the succession in view of the sudden and serious illness of the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], May 1942; and an enquiry from the BBC concerning the locally-accepted date of the accession of the Shaikh of Kuwait, February 1948.The papers also include copies of earlier correspondence dated 1913-21 relating to the succession in Kuwait at that period.There are no papers in the file dated 1936-41 and 1944-47.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 61; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains India Office minutes, and correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Foreign Office concerning the affairs of the shaikhdom of Kalba.The papers include: correspondence concerning the 1936 agreement between the British Government and Shaikh Said bin Hamad, Ruler of Kalba, for providing air facilities at Kalba, 1936-37; the decision of the British Government to allow a three-gun personal salute to the Shaikh of Kalba and his successors; discussion of the death of Shaikh Said bin Hamad, the minority of Shaikh Hamad bin Said, the involvement of Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī], Ruler of Ras al Khaimah, in Kalba affairs, and the appointment of Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad [Khālid bin Aḥmad bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī] as Regent of Kalba; and papers dated 1948, concerning the appointment of a new Regent at Kalba (and a new Ruler at Ras al Khaimah).Most of the papers in the file are dated 1936-38; there are no papers dated 1939-47.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 86; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence concerning the question of a successor for the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The principal correspondents are officials at the Political Agency in Muscat, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India (External Affairs Department).The file contains:correspondence regarding the Sultan's wish to discuss the question of his successor with the Political Resident (folios 27-31)correspondence, including with Buckingham Palace, following the birth of the Sultan's son in 1940 conveying messages of congratulation and thanks (folios 10-23)correspondence, including with the Foreign Office, discussing the Sultan's request that a British Officer act as regent in the event of his early death (folios 3-9)an extract from Muscat Intelligence Summary No. 5, 16-29 February 1940, in which details of the visit to Muscat of Major Jenabi of the Iraq Air Force are given, including his questioning of the Political Agent over Iraqi press reports of the British role in the accession of the current Sultan (folio 26).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 32; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar.The papers include: reports by the Political Agent, Bahrain on visits to Qatar, 1941 and 1943 (including references to internal politics and slavery); the situation in Zubara, 1944; reports of attacks on Indian and Pakistani nationals in Qatar, 1949; the abdication of Shaikh Abdullah [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], and accession of Shaikh Ali [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Thānī], 1949; and general matters, 1949.There are no papers dated 1945-48. The file also includes the text of a treaty, dated 3 November 1916, between HM Government and the Ruler of Qatar (folios 21-22).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is at folio 23.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 35; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-33; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding the stipends and pensions paid to tribal chiefs in the Aden Protectorate. The majority of the payments were established by treaty, and were paid to maintain trade routes. Government funding for Darbar presents is also discussed.The following agreements and events are documented in the file:additional payments to be made to the Sultan Sir Abdul Karim Fadhl Ali of Lahej under the terms of the 1882 treaty for the purchase of Shaikh Othman [Ash Shaykh 'Uthmān], for water and salt rights compensation;a statement showing stipendiaries in receipt of territorial and political pensions in the Aden Protectorate, as of September 1927 (f 93);a statement giving the names of heads of tribes to whom pensions are payable from the Aden Treasury, as of September 1927 (f 94);a statement showing the monthly stipends paid to Arab Chiefs in the Aden Protectorate (f 86);letters regarding the provision for the entertainment of envoys and chiefs, and the Darbar presents grant, to be included in the Vote for Middle Eastern Services (1928);an application for financial assistance received from Shaikh Salim bin Saleh, Chief of the Dhubi Tribe of the Upper Yafai, plus the opinion of the Resident that the request should not be granted;the payment of a personal monthly allowance to Mohamed Ali Mohsin, successor of the Ruling Nakid of the Mausatta Clan of Upper Yafa, as thanks for services rendered to the Aden Boundary Commission.There is correspondence throughout the file regarding a claim by Sultan 'Omar bin 'Awadh ['Umar bin 'Awadh Al Qu'ayti], Sultan of Shehr and Mukalla, for the payment of arrears in a stipend not claimed by him from 1922-1932, and also for that not drawn by his predecessor Sultan Ghalib bin 'Awadh, from Oct 1917 until 1922. Following discussion it is decided to pay the arrears for 1922-1932, and that in future it will only be possible to claim payment in arrears covering the term of one year. This correspondence includes a summary of the treaty arrangements in the Aden Protectorate, and the importance of Mukalla to the British.The following deaths and successions, and the approval of the continuation of stipends, are documented within the file:the death of Shaikh 'Abdunnabi bin 'Ali Nasir, Shaikh of the Alawi Tribe, and the succession of Shaikh Muhsin bin Ali Nashir (ff 43-45);the death of Shaikh Salih bin 'Awadh, Shaikh of the Rija'i section of the Subeihi Tribe, and the succession of his son, Shaikh Ahmed bin Salih bin 'Awad (ff 31-33);the death of Sultan Muhsin bin 'Ali Mana of the Haushabi Tribe, and the succession of Sultan Sarur bin Muhammad Al Fajjari (ff 28-30);the death of Shaikh Mutahar Mana', the Saqladi Shaikh of the Sha'ibi Tribe, and the succession of Shaikh Muhammad Muqbil Mutahar Mana' As Saqladi (ff 26-27);the abdication of Sharif Ahemd Am Muhsin of Beihan, in favour of his grandson Salib bin Husein (ff 17-18);the death of Shaikh Fadhl Ba 'Abdullah Ba Haidara Mehdi Al Agrabi, and election of his son Muhammad Fadhl (ff 15-16);the death of Shaikh Ahmed bin Awadth Ba Das, Shaikh of Irqa, and the succession of his grandson Shaikh Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Awadth (ff 13-14);the death of Sultan 'Umar bin Awadh al Qu'ayti of Shehr and Mukalla, and the succession of Sultan Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī (ff 9-11);the death of 'Abdullah bin Husein, Sultan of the Fadhli Tribe, and the succession of his son Salih bin 'Abdulla (f 4).The primary correspondents are: the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, later Governor); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sir William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Treasury Office, Aden (C A Falconer); the Political Secretary, Aden (Reginald Stuart Champion); the Treasury (Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins); and Sultan 'Omar bin 'Awadh, Sultan of Shehr and Mukalla.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 98; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the attempted assassination of Sultan Fadhl bin Abdul Karim, in response to his being named heir apparent to the Sultanate of Lahej by his father, Sultan 'Abd al Karim II ibn Al Fadhl Al 'Abdali.The file consists of copies of Political Intelligence Summaries submitted to the Colonial Office by the Protectorate Secretary, and correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of the India Office Political Department (John Charles Walton).The correspondence concerns: the assassination attempt; the petition against the election of Sultan Fadhl bin Abdul Karim; the break from the standard procedure of electing a successor following the death of the incumbent Sultan; discussion of the appropriate response to be issued from the Resident; the punishment of the conspirators, and their eventual deportation to the Seychelles. The Aden Chief Commissioner had initially proposed deportation to Zanzibar or Palestine, but this was overruled by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 'owing to risk of intrigues'.At folios 24-27 is a communication from the Resident regarding the custom of tribal succession in the Aden Protectorate, providing a brief summary of successions in the early twentieth century.The file includes a divider which gives a list of the correspondence contained within the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 37; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes:Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in France of the ex-Shah of Persia, Ahmed Kadjar [Ahmad Qajar], along with cuttings from the French newspapers
Le Tempsand
Le Matin, reporting on ex-Shah’s death (ff 42-45).A report, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy C R Dodd, Military Attaché at the British Legation, Tehran, dated 3 December 1930, on the present relations between the Shah and his army, and its bearing on the stability of the Pahlavi regime (ff 35-38).A report entitled
The Future of Persia, written by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle, dated October 1931 (ff 14-30).The text of an interview between an American journalist called Mr James, and the Persian Prime Minister Abdolhossein Teymourtache [Teymourtash], undated. Notes from a demi-official letter enclosing the text, from Captain John Ignatius Ennis, Intelligence Officer at the Baluchistan Intelligence Bureau in Quetta, dated 12 August 1931, also give details of James’ impressions of his visit to Russia (ff 3-12).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the issue of succession in Bahrain. Specifically, this correspondence discusses the death of Shaikh Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa and the formal succession of his son, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in 1932 and the subsequent death of Shaikh Hamad in 1942 and the succession of his son, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa.In addition to correspondence it contains the following documents:Copy of the speech made by the Political Resident, William Rupert Hay at the durbar recognising Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as the Ruler of Bahrain (folios 10-12)copy of speech made by Shaikh Salman at the durbar recognising him as Ruler of Bahrain (folios 13-14)A family tree of al-Khalifa rulers (folio 18)copy of the
kharitapresented to Shaikh Salman recognising him as Ruler of Bahrain by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow, Victor Hope (folio 31)a press note entitled "Death of Shaikh of Bahrain, The Viceroy's Message of Sympathy" that was drafted by the External Affairs Department of the Government of India (folios 42-43)a draft of a
kharitaprepared for the recognition of Shaikh Hamad (folio 113)'Bahrein, 1908-1928' an India Office memorandum, 1928 (folios 144-149).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 150; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file relates to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the future of Arabia in the event of his death.The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. Also included are copies of correspondence addressed to the India Office and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior).The correspondence begins with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf's response to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India's remark that British influence in the Middle East seems largely to depend on the life of one man: Ibn Saud.Related matters discussed in the correspondence include the following:The effect that Ibn Saud's death, or fall from power, might have on Kuwait.The designation of Amir Saud [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd] as Ibn Saud's heir apparent in 1933.Rumours of tense relations between Amir Saud and his brother Feisal [Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Sa'ud].Arab public opinion on Ibn Saud, following the Saudi-Yemeni war.Reports of Ibn Saud and Amir Saud having been attacked by would-be assassins in Mecca in 1935.Amir Saud's visit to India for medical treatment in 1940.Reports of the arrest of ninety persons suspected of being involved in a plot to assassinate Ibn Saud in 1940.Other prominent correspondents include the following: the Political Agent, Kuwait (Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, succeeded by Gerald Simpson de Gaury); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman); the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan; Sir Reader William Bullard; Hugh Stonehewer Bird); His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires, Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); officials of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India's External Affairs Department.In addition to correspondence the file includes the following:A report by the Political Resident entitled 'The Future of Arabia', which discusses the present position of Ibn Saud and how Arabia might look without him.Extracts from Kuwait intelligence summaries.A copy of a report produced in 1937 by the Political Agent at Kuwait, Gerald Simpson de Gaury, on the history of the Shammar tribe and the Ibn Rashid [Āl Rashīd] family, which includes as enclosures a table of the Shammar confederation and a genealogical table of the Al Rashid family, both of which are printed in Arabic and English.A copy of a report, produced in 1938 by de Gaury, on the 'Anaza [‘Aniza] tribe, which includes a tribal table of the tribe.The file includes two dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 219; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An external leather cover wraps around the documents and the front inside of this cover has been foliated as folio 1. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 2-218 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: This file mainly consists of copies of received Colonial Office correspondence relating to political and domestic affairs in the Yemen.Of particular note are copies of two memoranda, forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor of Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and written by Captain Basil William Seager, Frontier Officer for the Aden Protectorate, which are dated 14 September 1935 and 30 July 1937 respectively. Matters discussed include Italian interests in the Yemen and the status and health of the Imam [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn]. The memoranda also include profiles of political figures and rivals to succeed the Imam.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 39; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.