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File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’ [21r] (52/448)
The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 1916-1928. It was written in English, Arabic and Persian. 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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agreements with the Sheikh, which were recognised by the Turkish Government in
the Anglo-Turkish Convention of the 29th July, 1913, had placed him, with the
exception of this Turkish suzerainty, in a “trucial” relationship to His Majesty’s
Government. From the trucial point of view, the existing agreements appear satis
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. i>ut if it is desired to modify or amplify them at some future date, this can
now ^be done without reference to Turkey. On this head, therefore, the assurance to
the Sheikh of Koweit is at least as much in our interest as in his.
As regards Safwan, Umm Kasr, and Bubiyan, the guarantee against Turkish
reprisals for an attack on the Turkish military posts there on the part of the Sheikh
has, of course, been fully redeemed, and is now an obsolete question. The important
point is the permanent political ownership of the places referred to.
Bubiyan is an island at the mouth of the Shatt-el-Arab, and Safwan and Umm
Kasr are forts on the mainland just north of it. All three had been in dispute for
many years before the war between the Sheikh of Koweit and Turkey. The Anglo-.
Turkish Convention of the 29th July, 1913, effected a compromise, assigning Bubiyan
Island to the direct territories of the Sheikh, while Safwan and Umm Kasr forts were
excluded even from his outer sphere of tribal allegiance, and were assigned to the
Turkish vilayet of Basra.
Our assurance practically commits us to recognising Sheikh Salim’s sovereignty
over Safwan and Umm Kasr, as well as Bubiyan. But since the Sheikh is in a trucial
relationship with us, our position at Basra would in no way be injured by this, nor does
the possession of these forts by the Sheikh appear to conflict with any other British
interest.
The assurance regarding the Sheikh’s date gardens is on the same footing as that
given to the Sheikh of Mohammerah.
As regards the treaty with the Sheikh of al-Katar, the only point on which it goes
beyond the normal type of “ trucial treaty ” is the undertaking, under article 11, that
His Majesty’s Government’s good offices shall be used on the Sheikh’s behalf in the
event of unprovoked aggression against him by land. But the assurance is so vague and
guarded that it hardly constitutes a serious innovation.
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The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by the Government of India in 1919 and comprise: the Trucial Treaties to January 1906, Treaties with Rulers of Kuwait from 1841 to 1913, Treaties with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat from 1845 to 1914, Undertakings with the Trucial Chiefs of Oman from 1911 to 1912, Treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah from 1899 to 1919 and Treaties with the Rulers of Bahrain from 1820 to 1914. In addition, there is a separate Foreign Office ‘Memorandum on British Commitments (During the War) to the Gulf Chiefs’ made in 1916, which contains at Appendix A, the English text of the treaty made with the Ruler of Qatar in 1916. The treaty compilations are published in English and Arabic, except for the treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah, which are published in English and Persian.
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- 1 volume (222 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 2902 (Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 216; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:21r, 23r:42r, 43r:44r, 45r, 48v, 59v, 62r, 74r, 77r:77v, 79r:79v, 80v:91v, 93r, 121v, 123r:130v, 147r:162v, 167r:168r, 172r:173v, 178r:182v, 188r, 201r:206r, 209v, 210v, 214v:216v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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