'File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators'

Content

This file contains two documents forwarded to the 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. in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive commentary on the new law as an attached second document.

Together, the two documents spell out British objections to the passage of the law on various technical and political grounds. Specifically, the second document recounts British concerns on the legalisation of what British observers describe as a form of slavery. The details of the new law are spelled out, along with its beneficiaries and those whose interests the law will harm. The rationale for objecting to the law revolves around preventing revolt among the actual cultivators of areas to be brought under new agricultural methods with the new law.

Extent and format

1 file (11 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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 3-11; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/5/163

Former external reference(s)

Second Series subject files: 2/10

History of this record

Date(s)

22 Dec 1933 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Land reformCustomary lawAgricultural labourSocial conflictsIrrigation

Places

Iraq

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