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File 21/1911 Pt 2 'Aden Protectorate:- Recruitment of coolies for employment in British East Africa.' [26r] (11/166)
The record is made up of 1 item. It was created in Dec 1912- Jun 1913. 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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Xnaiag. Provided by ttuployani, who undertake to give
the ink ■urate |wurt«n ud set ic six thee with the
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other labourers. Labourers may take their families with
them at the employers' expease, and may settle on the ■
land. The employers will find n>rk for the *maa and
children when possible, at the rate of wages current in
the locality.
In the event of slaekasss or insubordination,any
labourer may be dismissed without notice and returned
to idea at the employers* expense.
it present the planters wish to take only about
S6 man as an experiment sad me have informed Hessis
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Comas ji Dina haw and Brothers that we have no objection
to their arranging with your Highness to recruit these
nan outside the limits of our settlement. The schema
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which the planters have in view eventually and which has
been approved by His Majesty's Government is to take Arab
labourers on a much larger scale on the contract of
sufficient duration to ensure an adequate return in labour
for the money they shall have to spend in taking the
labourers to the Coast of British last Africa. Bepatriation
at the employers arpeose will be optional to the labourers
at
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The papers concern the recruitment of natives of the Aden Protectorate to work as labourers (' coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. ') in commercial plantations in British East Africa.
The papers include: a request to the Colonial Office from representatives of several rubber and fibre companies for the supply of labourers from Somaliland to work in plantations on the coast of British East Africa, November-December 1912 (folios 98-103); discussion of a request from the above-mentioned companies to the 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. to obtain the labourers from the tribes of the Aden hinterland, December 1912 (folios 83-97); further discussion by British officials of both proposals, December 1912 - January 1913 (folios 72-82); agreement to the proposed recruitment in the Aden Protectorate, January-February 1913 (folios 51-70); papers concerning the necessary regulations and terms of employment, February-May 1913 (folios 28-50); and the text of a letter 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 to the Sultan of the Abdali, setting out the terms on which labour would be recruited, April-June 1913 (folios 22-27).
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- File 21/1911 Pt 2 'Aden Protectorate:- Recruitment of coolies for employment in British East Africa.'
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- 21r:56v, 58r:89v, 94r:97v, 100r:103v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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