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'File 10/3 VI Qatar Oil Concession' [‎116r] (245/481)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (234 folios). It was created in 25 Jul 1934-14 Jan 1935. 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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encyclopaedia
Britannica Sth ^iidition.
?ol.2. pages 259-260,
1 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer. I.
Geographical. Under
"Nathan 11 and "Ya'ari-
bah".
M and the neighbouring districts, who at
last so swelled the number of Ibn Saoud's
adherents, that he became the head of the
reformed religion, and according to the
Wahhabi pretensions the head of all
Islam. Guided by the counsels of Ibn
Abd-el-Wahhab, and carried forward on the
wave of trie new teaching, he gradually
established his authority over all Aared
and eventually over the greater part of
Nejd. His hardest contests there were
with the people of Hiadj who, under
their Sheykh, Mohammed ibn Uaus, long
held out, and with the Ibn Ghureyr
(Areyr or iiruk), Sheykhs of the Beni
Khaled. These latter, who owned the
districts of Hasa and Katif, though
forced to tribute, have always been
hostile to the Ibn 3aouds, and are so at
the present day."
Kven if a claim based on such grounds
could be admitted, it is very doubtful
whether this contention (sidelined at
of the Ibn Sa^ds can be maintained. After
the fall of the Abbaside Caliphate and the
Carmathian revolt with its centre round
Bahrain and ^atar, about the beginning of
the ilth century, Arabia fell into chaos for
some two centuries. 'Oman, ^atar and Hasa
were organised for a time into a kind of
monau % chy under the Nabhan, and later
Ya^ibah tribes (both ♦Oman tribes).
Najd and iShammar were abandoned to clannish
alliances or feuds. The Turkish overlord-
ship dated from 1617 when they conquered
i^gypt, but from the beginning of the 17th
century their claims in Najd, 1 Quan, ; ahrah
and the liadramaut were absolutely ignored,
and no collision was possible, because no

point of contact existed. This state of
things was, however, at last modified by
the/

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The volume mainly contains correspondence, telegrams and memoranda exchanged between the 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. and 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. and with the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the Sheikh of Qatar and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) on the boundaries of Qatar and the Qatar Oil Concession.

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There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 216-228).

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1 volume (234 folios)
Arrangement

The papers in the volume are arranged chronologically. There is an index at the end of the volume, (folios 216-228). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.

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The foliation is in pencil on the top right corner, encircled. The numbering starts on the first page of writing, then 90, 91A, 91B, 92; and then carries on until 233, which is the last number given on the back cover. There is a second foliation, in pencil on the top right corner, starting on folio 27 (numbered 17); and ending on folio 214 (numbered 201).

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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