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'Muscat reforms: customs; finances and negotiations with Omanis' [242r] (488/508)
The record is made up of 1 volume (248 folios). It was created in 22 Oct 1919-15 Apr 1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Telegram
From
To
No o.
Dated
Demi-QffIcial ,
Yotir demi-official telegram dated March 17th, No., 970 E.A.
I think that if Sultan of Muscat abdicates just now when we
have just smkaKkgdi established a
Wazir
Minister.
' and are initiating reform
it would I iia think give excellent opening to Mohammadan
agitators and nationalist press to cavil and work up feeling
against us, possibly some faction in prance might take
matter up^
if
On the other hand/His Highness could be induced to return
, ^
to Muscat for a year or perhaps even less, until administration
reforms have got well under way, and^hen abdicate in favour
of his minor son, who could be given a tutor and installed
under a Regency, thi^4rrangement in my opinion would be
much better.
I think we should support the Sultan and his family; there
are so many varied toteresta^aHd"no dominating personality
that they could never be satisfactory to deal wlti? In fact
If the Sultan and his family go under, I think the whole of
*r*Ticrf^ries of petty Shaikhdoms whioh
Oman would relapse into congeries 01 p
would be very inconvenient.
Addressed Foreign Repeated Baghdad.
Trevor#
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- Political Bushire.
" p^! i P. D ^P artm6rlt ' 3ovt * 0f Simla.
Repeated Civil Commissioner Baghdad 0
- April 19th ®aSi8.1920.
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Correspondence covers debts of the Sultan of Muscat, reforms to increase revenues, and negotiations with Omani rebels. Topics include:
- Budget for 1919;
- Currency and customs;
- The desire of the Sultan [Taymūr bin Fayṣal] to abdicate;
- Terms of negotiations with tribes from the interior of Oman;
- Prohibition of coffee and the sale of liquor;
- Appointment of a wazir Minister. for the Sultan.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (248 folios)
- Arrangement
There is an index at the front of the file.
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Foliation: There are two foliation sequences. The most complete sequence, which should be used for referencing, is circled in pencil, in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the title page, on number 1, and runs through to 248, ending on the last folio of writing.
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- IOR/R/15/1/416
- Title
- 'Muscat reforms: customs; finances and negotiations with Omanis'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:10v, 12r:232v, 233v:248v, i-r:iii-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence