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File 600/1905 Pt 6 'Aden Hinterland: Upper Yaffai; treaties with Sultan Kahtan and other Chiefs' [54r] (103/212)
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Political Department.
Bombay Castle, 22nd December 1905.
From
The Honourable SirSTEYNING W. EDGERLEY, K.C.V.O., C.I.E.,
Chief Secretary to the
Government of Bombay
From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
;
To
Sir LOUIS W. DANE, K.C.T.E., C.S.I.,
Secretary to the Government of India,
Foreign Department.
Sir,
I am directed to invite a reference to the marginally* noted corre
spondence relative
1903.
Letter to the Govemmontof India, No. 193-p., dated the 19th August
to the negotiation
Telegram from the Government of India, No. 2064-e., dated ihe 1st Q +,. Ql f TT
September 1903. 01 a treat y With
1903^ ^ ^ overnment * n( h a > No* 268, dated the 4th November Sultan Kahtan bin
Letter from the Government of India, No. 61-e.a., dated the 8th Omar of the Upper
January 1904. Yaffai.
2. I am to forward, for the orders of the Government of India, a copy of
a letter No. 6857, dated the Cth November 1905, and of its enclosures, from the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
, Aden, from which it will be seen that Sultan Kahtan does
not occupy the position with his tribesmen which he was represented to possess
when the treaty of October 1903 was concluded with him. He is evidently
unable to fulfil his covenants with us and has lost any nominal position he held
amongst the Yaffai. It is probably true that in the stress of boundary delimita
tion persons coming forward as representing the tribe were too readily accepted
at their own valuation. It will be seen that there is a divergence of opinion
between Major Jacob and General Mason as to the best attitude to adopt. The
latter is of opinion that it would be impolitic to abandon Sultan Kahtan at the
present juncture. He suggests that the loss of his position by Sultan Kahtan
was the direct outcome of his having entered into treaty relations with us and
therefore recommends that the stipend of $ 50 per mensem now paid to him
should be converted into a personal allowance.
3. His Excellency is inclined to believe that he could never have had more
than a purely nominal position and that if he had really been a person of weio-ht
m the counsels of the tribe his visit to Aden would not have led to the results
attributed to it. His Excellency the Governor in Council thinks that it would
.better therefore to intimate to Sultan Kahtan that Government treated
with him as Chief and that, as he is not in a position to perform the oblio-ations
he undertook, Government must recognize that fact and act accordino-ly i e
consider the agreement with him at an end. It is for the Governmental India
o consider whether anything in the shape of compensation should be paid to
oultan Kahtan. His Excellency the Governor in Council is not inclined to
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Part 6 of the file relates to treaty relations with tribal sections of the Upper Yaffai [Upper Yafa].
The correspondents include:
- Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Aden;
- Political Officer, Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘];
- Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ;
- Government of India;
- 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. , London;
- Foreign Office, London.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- a treaty with Sultan Kahtan-bin-Omer Har-Hara [Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar al-Harhara] of the ruling dynasty of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the Muflahai [Al-Muflihi], Mausatta [Al-Mawsata], Hadthrami [Al-Hadhrami], Al-Shaibi, and Dthubi [Al-Dhubi] sections of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the ruler of Behan-Al-Kasab [Bayḥān al-Qasāb] and the ruler of the Upper Aulaqi territory;
- an agreement with Shaikh Mutahir Ali [Muṭahir ‘Alī] of ‘Ardaf in Shaib to maintain boundary pillars along the borders of his territory;
- the question of who should be recognised as Sultan of the Upper Yafa, particularly after the death of Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar in September 1913;
- payment of a regular stipend to the Sultan.
Folio 98 is a genealogical chart of the Sultans of Yaffa'i al-Sufal.
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