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'File 5/15 Ahmad bin Lahej and Abdul Wahab Zaiyani' [‎54r] (107/134)

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The record is made up of 1 file (67 folios). It was created in 7 Nov 1923-26 May 1924. 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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I4.. On your petitioner's return to Bahrin abouv the
month of Jure 1923, the people appealed to him for the
help and advice and they were so incensed that they
seriously contemplated miggrating from Bahrin in a body
if their Just grievances were not redressed, your
petitioner advised them to submit to the Consul General,
a respectful petition detailing their grievances and
praying for redress. A petition to which your petitioner
was a signatory, was accordingly presented but which
evoked no response though it was signed by leading and
prominent people with large stake in the welfare and
orderly Rule of Bahrin.
5 # Another petitions was thereupon prepared for
submission to the Consul General and it was presented
to him on his arrival at Bahrin. Six days elapsed with-
-out any reply and on the 7th day, in the beginning of
November I925, the Consul General convened a Meeting of
12 Chiefs and Nobles of Bahrin.
6« Your petitioner and Shaikh Ahmed bin LaheJ were
given seats in a room in the Consulate apart from the
others and the Consul notified to us in the tiame of the
British Government that we were prisoners and would be
deported from Bahrin# We were not informed of any
offence or transfression or called upon for an explana
tion . We were kept as Prisoners in the room without
food and at sun-set on the same day, we were taken on
Board, a man-of-war, which was in readiness and were
kept under the custody of 5 Military men. We were then
taken to Busra where we were kept for two days and
were then placed under the same custody on Board, the
Mail Steamer and were brought to Bombay. After our
arrival on or about the 12th November 1925 we have been
kept at the Shah-Jahan Palace Hotel in Sitaram Building,
near Crawford Market and have been detained under the
orders of the Police Ooratnissioner<» On the ^rd instant we
were

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This file contains correspondence between Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, British 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. at Bahrain; Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Prescott Trevor, British 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bushire; the Foreign Department, Government of India; and Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah.

These correspondence concern the deportation of ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Zayānī and Aḥamad bin Laḥaj from Bahrain to Bombay on account of their intrigues against Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah. This file includes details of their intrigues and connections with Hāfiẓ Wahbah (also known as Mulla Hafidh) and other prominent Bahraini deportees residing in Bombay, including ‘Alī bin Khālid; their deportation on board the R.I.M.S. Lawrence and R.I.M.S. Vasna via Basra and Bushire; and detention in Bombay, including a court petition and hotel expenses at the Shah Jahan Palace Hotel.

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1 file (67 folios)
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Foliation: There is one incomplete foliation sequence and one complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 2, and runs through to 67, ending on the inside of the back cover.

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