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Coll 30/33 'Persian Gulf, Trucial Coast. Policy of H.M.G. List of Trucial Sheikhs' [113r] (225/818)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 27 May 1929-8 Aug 1939. 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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retain their freedom of action ae long as possible and no saw
at present no reason wh^ they shooId sacrifice it. A
guarantee of protection in inter-Trucial disputes seemed to
him to have little object and no thougot it a questionable
policy to give the oheihhs a guarantee against Ibn laud before
theie was any oil in their Sheikhdoms which His Majesty’s
Government wished to protect.
He would ? however 5 on the general question, li«e to
make a purely personal suggestion which was, cast His Majesty’s
Government snouid again consider wh-echer there would not be
considerable advantage in replacing the
native agent
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
ot Sharjah
v;ho 3 he understood, had recently died, by an j)nglishnan. He
thought it could no longer be maintained that Sha.jah was too
dangerous for this purpose, and he hoped that this idea might
be examined.
THE AIR MINISTRY EEPRSSDHTATIVES intimated that, if
the proposal were put forward officially, they would strongly
support it.
MR. GLAUSOH said that 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.
were in general
agreement with the views of the Government of India and of
oolonel 1‘owle. Referring to Mr. Mendel’s suggestion that, in
tneir relations with the frucial Coast, His lajesty’s G-cvernment
must now either go backwards or forwards, he indicated that the
India Oifice were ready to advance when i/nd as necessary, but
that they saw no adequate reason why His Majesty’s Government
should not continue to pursue their present policy. If an
oil concession were granted on tne Truciai Coast, for example,
at Kas-ai-Rheima, the India Oifice would not oppose the
necessary guarantees of protection being given.
As regards foreign penetration of tne Truciai Coast in
general, Mr. Clauson observed that while the political control
which His Majesty’s Government at present exercised was still
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding British Government policy on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Specifically, this includes discussions concerning the possibility of appointing an Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. to the region, incorporating it into civil air routes and whether or not Britain should take more formal control of the area. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the 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. in Bushire, the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, 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. , the Air Ministry and the Foreign Office.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains the following:
- Minutes from several meetings of the 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East' (folios 103-131, 149-174, 353-354)
- 1929 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. memorandum entitled 'Future Policy on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ' (folios 333-337)
- 1929 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. memorandum entitled 'Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain' (folios 342-345)
- 1928 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. memorandum 'The Trucial Chiefs, 1908-1928' (folios 401-404)
- 1928 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. memorandum 'El Katr [Qatar], 1908-16' (folio 406)
- a series of ten small photographic portraits of tribal leaders from the region (folios 28-32).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (407 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 409; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-382; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 30/33 'Persian Gulf, Trucial Coast. Policy of H.M.G. List of Trucial Sheikhs'
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- front, front-i, 2r:27v, 33r:295v, 298r:313v, 315r:408v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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