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'File 53/11 VII (D 94) Date Gardens of Shaikhs of Kuwait and Mohammerah' [153r] (324/550)
The record is made up of 1 volume (273 folios). It was created in 26 Jun 1933-30 Sep 1933. It was written in English, Arabic and Turkish. 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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was for His llajesty's G-overnment to force Kuwait
to raise her Customs duties to the same level as
tp&t of Iraq. This he assured me oould and would
be done sooner than I expected.
After patiently hearing to all he had to
say, I pointed out that (a) Kuwait was not hostile
to Iraq as he seemed to think, (h) that the Shaikh
was taking all precautions in his power to stop
smuggling but had difficulties of finance, etc.
(c) That Iraq were apparently under a serious
delusion as to the amount of contrabclnd that went
from Kuwait. In reality the traffic was not great
and the Bedouin; were the chief culprits, but that
they^were most difficult to catch, seeing that
they came in from all quarters of the desert and
bought only in small quantities and ostensibly
for themselveso
(d) I suggested that the Iraq Customs Department
should really make some effort themselves to place
Customs Posts on the 100 miles of Kuwait-Iraq
land frontier. They had a single immobile post
Asagwan, which merely watched the Basra - Kuwait
motor road, but that 80 miles of frontier was
without a single post nor was a patrol ever sent
along,the Batin from Sa^r/an to Rigai. In fact the
door was entirely open, and the Bedouins had no
difficulty in crossing into Iraq whereever and
whenlever they wanted, (e) I suggested that the
Iraq Customs would do well to place 4 Customs
posts on this Batin line, instead of trying by a
process of frightfulness £6 bluff to get Kuwait to
do their work for them.
(f) I pointed out that the Shaikh of Kuwait*s
point of view could be put in a nutshell. He was
sympathetic and would always do his best to
cooperate, but Iraq must hersel watc
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding date gardens in southern Iraq owned by the rulers of Mohammerah and Kuwait. The correspondence discusses changes in legislation proposed by the Government of Iraq regarding the collection of land rent and land produce duties, and the impact of these proposed changes to the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ.
In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's decision to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted to the former ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ and the Shaikh of Mohamerrah, Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī by the British Government in return for their military support against the Ottoman Empire in World War 1.
The correspondence discusses disturbances on the land owned by Shaikh Ahmad caused by his fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. (agricultural workers) allegedly refusing to pay rent, committing acts of sabotage and some of them demanding to be made proprietors of the land in place of the Shaikh. Within the correspondence, British officials discuss the Iraqi government's role in fostering the discontent and discuss the appropriate response with both Shaikh Aḥmad and the Government of Iraq.
The file contains a Foreign Office memorandum that outlines the sequence of events regarding the Shaikhs' date gardens from 1914 until 1933 (ff 22-25).
The file also contains details regarding a legal case brought against Shaikh Ahmad by members of the Al Zuhair family regarding the ownership of some of his land holdings in Iraq.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (273 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: Formerly a bound correspondence volume, the file's sheets have been unbound and are now loose.
Foliation: The file has one complete foliation sequence, which is written in pencil in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and runs through to the final folio of writing, ending on number 258. The following foliation errors are contained in the file: f 68A, f 224A.
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- 'File 53/11 VII (D 94) Date Gardens of Shaikhs of Kuwait and Mohammerah'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:v-v, 1r:5v, 6v:10v, 13v:68v, 68Ar, 68Av, 69r:142v, 143v:224v, 224Ar, 224Av, 225r:259v, vi-r:x-v, back-i
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