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'File 53/11 XIX (D 163) Kuwait Date Gardens' [64r] (154/494)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 4 Apr 1940-10 Oct 1942. 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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5-3/"
Personal.
Confidential.
Office of the
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.
.
Camp, Bahrain.
Dated the 5th April, 1941.
My dear Peel,
You may be interested to know the inside history of my
telegram No.T/159, dated the 3rd April 1941, regarding the
registration of the Shaikh's date gardens. Judge Good apparently
heard a rumour in Basra that foreigners were to be prevented
from registering land in future but thought the law would not
have retrospective effect. However, he wrote privately to the
Embassy who made enquiries and ascertained that the amendment
was actually in the committee stage and shortly to become law.
Up till this moment the Embassy knew nothing about it, although
it struck at the root of foreign ownership of property in
Iraq.
2. Holt^ who is the Oriental Secretary in Bagdad, and the
only person who has any idea of what is going on, at once saw
the danger and asked the Counsellor, Holman, to take up the
matter with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Apparently in
the Foreign Office when you are under orders of transfer you
cease to take up any more /work, so the Ambassador was unable
to deal with it himself. Belt was pressed by -Hrolman to get
the amendment cancelled, and ascertained privately that the
addition empowering the Iraq Government to make grants was
being drafted in the Ministry of Justice.
3. When Holman approached the Minister for Foreign Affairs
the latter told him that the Shaikh's position would be fully
protected, but when Holman asked him for confirmation of this
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►T.Peel Esquire, G.B.E.,M,C
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The
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.
,
London.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding date gardens in southern Iraq owned by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's decision to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted by the British Government to the former ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ in return for his military support against the Ottoman Empire in World War 1.
The file contains translations of correspondence between Shaikh Aḥmad and his son (and representative in Iraq) Shaikh Mohamed [Muḥammad] as well as correspondence between British officials and the Iraqi government regarding the ongoing legal dispute concerning ownership of the gardens.
The file contains a letter (ff. 7-13) from Charles Geoffrey Prior, the 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. to Shaikh Aḥmad which includes details of the British government's settlement offer to him as compensation for loss of earnings since the Iraqi government ended his immunity from taxation in 1932. The letter asks for him to a sign a form that formally discharges the British government from liability for taxation losses and contains a draft copy of such a form.
The file also contains correspondence about a forthcoming change in the Iraqi land settlement law concerning the ownership of land by foreigners as well as correspondence regarding a court summons issued by Iraq against a number of members of the Al Sabah family including Shaikh Aḥmad (ff. 89-91).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is contained on folio 1A.
- Physical characteristics
A bound correspondence volume.
The file has an incomplete pagination sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation 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 with the index of topics contained in the file, on number 1 and ends on number 230, on the last folio of writing.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1 and 1A.
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- Title
- 'File 53/11 XIX (D 163) Kuwait Date Gardens'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:1v, 1ar:1av, 2r:26r, 26r:26v, 26v:27r, 27r:27v, 27v:28r, 28r:28v, 28v:29r, 29r:29v, 29v:30r, 30r:30v, 30v:31r, 31r:31v, 31v:32r, 32r:32v, 32v:36r, 37r:66v, 67v:70v, 71v:94v, 96r:153v, 154v, 155v:159v, 160v:176v, 178v, 179v:196v, 196Ar, 196Av, 197r:230v, iii-r:v-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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