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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [‎39] (54/148)

The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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Arabia]
TREATY TRIBES OF ADEN
39
satisfaction for a large debt, repudiated by the Kathin
Sultan of Seyyun, but sustained by the British. There
the question stands. All the Kaaiti realm is claimed
in virtue of earlier prescription by the Kathiri federa
tion, which still holds the eastern part of the middle
Hadhramaut; but this last is a Beduin power, poor and
primitive, under which the Hadhramaut Seyyids are
recalcitrant and the cultivators uneasy. The Kaaiti are
rich, progressive, and intimately connected with our
own eastern possessions and the Dutch Indies. They
are upstarts; but the retention of power for two or
three generations is a good title to Arab rule, it' not to
admission to Arab aristocracy.
The Treaty Tribes of the Aden Protectorate
The Treaty Tribes of the Aden Protectorate need not
detain us. We recognise their independence, both of
one another and of all external powers, admitting no
claims either of the Turks or of the Imam of Sana,
on the southern side of the delimited frontier of our
hinterland, or of its protraction in an east-north-east
direction into the Great Desert. Ihus the Hadhramaut,
though not attached to us by treaty, is regarded as fall
ing within our sphere and debarred from any politi
cal connection with Yemen. On the other hand, the dis
tricts of Harib and Marib have never been reckoned in
our sphere, although, since they have not owed allegi
ance for some centuries to any Yemenite power, they
have been free to enter our treaty group had their
local rulers so desired. Although there are differences
of opinion, often issuing in desultory warfare, about
the relations of some clans to one or another of the
recognised tribal groups whose chiefs accept our sub
sidies, no treaty chief is recognised as paramount over
the rest, or over any of his fellows. Phe Abdali Sultan,
for example, although his proximity to Aden and the
tradition of our first acquisition of a title to the Aden
Peninsula from his house cause him to hold a peculiarly
intimate relation to us, is recognised as lord of Abdali

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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.

It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.

There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.

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1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled 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 first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.

Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.

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