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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [151v] (314/431)
The record is made up of 1 volume (213 folios). It was created in 21 May 1923-2 Mar 1937. 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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202. At the beginning of the incoming season it was reported that a number
of Sudanese pilgrims were arriving with insufficient funds to pay for their
pilgrimage expenses, and it was anticipated that in the return season there would
be numerous applications for assistance. This prognostication proved to be
well-founded. Within eleven days of the return of the first pilgrims to Jedda
from Mecca, forty-three Sudanese pilgrims were advanced a total of £E .82|.
This was required for the payment of mutawwif's dues, for subsistence and for
the repayment of small loans contracted on pilgrimage. Since the 21st April and
up to the time of writing (July 1933) a further nineteen persons have had to be
assisted, making a total to date of sixty two Sudanese pilgrims who were unable
to leave this country without financial assistance. Six Sudanese pilgrims, who
were not in possession of Suakin pilgrim passes, applied for repatriation this year.
203. A number of pilgrims from the Sudan did harm to their own interests
by informing their prospective pilgrim guides on arrival that they were natives
of Khartum, Omdurman, El Obeid, Atbara,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Haifa, &c., whereas, in
fact, they were natives of small villages whose respective merkez and mudiriyehs
were the towns mentioned. The danger of such statements lies in the fact that
under the Saudi pilgrimage tariff inhabitants of towns, such as those named
above, are subject to a fixed mutawwif's fee of 187 piastres miri gold, whereas
inhabitants of the smaller villages and outlying districts £ ' owing to their poverty
pay such gratuity to their mutawwifs as they wish." The usual rule is that the
Saudi passport authorities register the villages of origin of the various Sudanese
pilgrims in accordance with the particulars given on their Suakin pilgrim passes,
but if a pilgrim should himself volunteer the statement that he comes from a
town, while he is actually from a remote village specified in his pilgrim pass, the
authorities are only too prone to accept his statement as correct.
204. It is suggested that the port authorities in the Sudan should
(a) instruct officers issuing pilgrim passes to be careful in all cases to specify the
pilgrim's actual village of birth or residence on his Suakin pilgrim pass, and
(b) cause pilgrims to be expressly warned that they should, when questioned on
arrival in Jedda as to their place of origin, name only the locality shown in their
passes.
205. There was the usual shortage of shipping facilities this year owing to
the limited number of ships at the disposal of the Khedivial Mail Line, but no
pilgrims had to wait longer in Jedda than a maximum of ten days.
206. Repatriation of Sudanese : Position on 24th July, 1933
(a) Applications considered deserving of examination : 6.
(b) Applicants repatriated : 2.
(c) Applications still under reference : 4.
(16) Zanzibari and East African Pilgrimage.
207. The Saudi returns (see paragraph 31) show under the head of Zanzibari
and East African pilgrims only one person as having landed this year at Jedda as
against 102 last year. This must be dismissed as a definite inaccuracy, as at least
twelve East Africans visited the Legation on their return journey from Mecca.
A few of them were in possession of the new form of pilgrim pass mentioned in
paragraphs 28 and 224 of last year's report.
208. The heirs of Ahmed Rajab, the pilgrim from Zanzibar, whose death
was recorded in paragraph 235 of last year's report, were ultimately located in
the Hadhramaut, and in due course appointed a person, who was making the
pilgrimage this year, to act as their attorney (
wakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
) in connexion with the
proceedings against the Indian chauffeur who caused the death of the deceased.
Ihe law requires the participation of legal representatives in all such cases, as ^
the question of blood-money arises. In this case the
wakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
appointed was baffled lij
by the working of the local judicial machinery. He had no funds and there was
no prospect of any expenditure being covered by an effective recovery of blood-
money, if awarded. He abandoned the case after some weeks and the Legation
has now transferred its interest to the accused, also a British subject, with a view
to securing the early termination of the proceedings against him and of his
protracted imprisonment.
^09. No Zanzibari and East African pilgrim applied for repatriation this
year.
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- Content
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in London, the British Residencies in Bushire and Aden, the High Commissioners in Cairo and Baghdad, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud.
Contained in the volume are the annual reports on the pilgrimage composed by the Agent in Jeddah for the years 1929-1935 inclusive. Each report consists of some or all of the following:
- a general introduction;
- information on quarantine;
- statistics;
- information on health, transport, customs, 'mutawwifs' (pilgrim guides), religious policy, tariffs and the cost of pilgrimage, and pilgrims from other Muslim regions of the British Empire (India, Afghan, Malay, West Africa, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Sarawak, Somalia, Zanzibar and East Africa, South Africa, Aden, Hadhramaut, Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait).
Other documents cover the following subjects:
- the Hajj under King Hussein and the implications of a Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Cities;
- an attack on Yemeni pilgrims by the Ikhwan in August 1923 and the subsequent fighting;
- an Egyptian Medical Mission to Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina to assist with the pilgrimage;
- Jeddah's water supply;
- a new motor road between Medina and Najaf;
- Japanese interest in the pilgrim trade;
- the formation and progress of a National First-Aid Society in the Hejaz and Nejd;
- the religious tolerance of the Wahhabis, specifically the kissing of the Black Stone in Mecca.
At the back of the volume (folios 205-206) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (213 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover, the numbers written in pencil, circled, and 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. The only irregularities are the first three folios (ff 1A-1C).
Fold-out folio: f 2.
There is an inconsistent and incomplete pagination sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled.
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- 'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1ar:1cv, 3r:13v, 15r:201v, 203r:209v, back-i
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