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'Vol. D.16 (File 61/4) Bin Saood - Amir of Nejd's intention to visit Pirate Coast and Oman in 1905' [‎31r] (63/118)

The record is made up of 1 file (58 folios). It was created in 5 Oct 1905-26 Dec 1907. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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British 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. and Consul ate-(general
Bush ire 22nd April 1906 %
No ,88 .She ikh Zaeed bin Khal ifa
Chief of Abu D
No.89.Sheikh Butti bin Suheil . .
Chief of Debai. , '
No90 m Sheikh Sua gar bin KaaJ id-
Chief ojf Shargah.
No.91.Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmed
Chief of Um-el-Kowein.
No. 92. She ik h Ah did Aziz bin Hume i d
Chief of AJman - 0
(and all the frucial Chiefs.)
4_e-
When travelling in your parts in Novr,
last, I heard it discussed among Arabs
whom I met that Abdul Rahman bin Saood
or his son Abdul Aziz intended to pay
a visit to Northern Oman and was enter^
-ing into communication with the Truciat
Chiefs.
In writing to the great Crovt.l
ment ioned this report but said that I
thought that Ibn Saood had quite enough/
to employ him in his own place and did
not really intend visiting Oman.
The great Govt, are also of this
opinion but so that there may be no
misapprehension^ they have directed me
to explain to all the Trucial Chiefs
that any movement of Bin Saood or his
Agents towards the Northern Coast
of Oman would be sure to cause unrest
among the tribes which would be pre
judicial to British Trade, and that
for this reason they think it advisable/
to warn the Trucial Sheikhs that the
display of any inclination on the part
of any one of them to give encourage
ment to, or to intrigue with Ibn Saood

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This file consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, handwritten notes, diary extracts, and drafts of the above concerning a rumoured visit by Ibn Sa'ud, ruler of Najd, to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman. The bulk of the file is correspondence between 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 Political Agents in Kuwait and Sharjah, the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Secretary of State for India in Whitehall, the British Embassy in Constantinople, the various Trucial Sheikhs, Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud. Included within this are letters sent amongst the Arab rulers themselves that came into the possession of the British via the Agent at Sharjah.

The file begins with reports of Ibn Sa'ud's visit to al-Hasa in the summer of 1905 where he reconciled the quarrelling tribes of 'Ajman, al-Murrah, and Bani Hajar, and his talk of visiting the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman. A discussion follows on how the British should deal with the consequential unrest and injury to trade in the Gulf should the visit occur, often seeking the advice of Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait due to his close connection to Ibn Sa'ud. Warnings are then given to the Trucial Sheikhs to refrain from contact with Ibn Sa'ud and measures of blocking the arms trade to Kuwait and more direct military action are put forward. The file ends (at the close of 1907, after a gap of a year) with reports from Sheikh Mubarak that complaints about the British and requests for contact with Ibn Sa'ud had come to him from several of the Trucial rulers.

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1 file (58 folios)
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Foliation: The main sequence is written in pencil in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover of the file, and runs from 1 to 57, the final folio of writing. Note that f 24 is followed by f 24A.

There are two other foliation sequences that are both intermittent through the file. The first consists of five digits stamped in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the first folio of writing. The second sequence is written in blue crayon in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the first folio of writing.

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