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'File 61/11 I (D 41) Relations between Nejd and Hejaz' [198r] (408/600)
The record is made up of 1 volume (295 folios). It was created in 19 Apr 1923-6 Nov 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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had recently beatan off a W&habi attack, ling HuBsein
wrote to fay that the attaoJc wan only repulsed by mean®
of British aeroplanes and tanks. Yet only a month or
so earlier he had informed Hie Majeety*« Government
that the Mir of Trans-Jo rdania wae a^minietcr ing that
territory on behalf of the Mecca Government• How little
he hae done to oonciliate Bin Sand is well known. He
has endeavoured to starve the Hejd tribes by limiting
to a quantity quite inadequate even for hie own people
the amount of foodetuffs and other neoessariee which
might be taken out of the town® of the Hejas, and
although this measure wae rescinded when he took the
title of Caliph it ha@ been applied in practice with
little if any modification. For «everai years he
refused to allow lejdis to come to Mecca on the
pilgrimage. He was personally discourteous to Bin
Baud: he always refers to him as His Excellency instead
of as His Highness* and on receiving from him a letter
couched in very friendly language and bearing the full
title of King of the Hejaa, he #ent a curt reply
beginning "0 Excellencyi* - a form of address which he
^ould embroider if he were writing e*g» to his own
Director of Customs. He openly claimed that the first
Step towards peace in Arabia was the restoration of pre-
war boundaries. This was to apply to all Arab rulers
in the peninsula except himself: he by no means desired
to be limited, as before the war* to tae town of Mecca>
but Bin Saud was to give up his conquests, and the houses
of Bin Hash id, at Hail, and of A.1 Aidh> at Ibha, were to
be re-established (this programme he published in his
own newspaper only a few months ago), He ocaistantly
described himself a« "King of the Arab L^nds", as though
he were the only King. And finally he took the title
of
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The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to relations between Najd and the Hejaz. The majority of the correspondence is between Reader Bullard, the British Agent in Jeddah, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, the Colonial and Foreign Offices, both in London, the High Commissioner in Jerusalem, the Government of India, and Ibn Sa'ud himself, or his representatives.
Most of the volume covers events leading up to, and immediately after, the Ikhwan's capture of Taif, including Hussein ibn 'Ali's abdication and his son 'Ali's attempts to retain control of the Hejaz. There is a detailed report of the capture of Taif by Bullard (folios 186-201, 273-281). The documents reflect British concern with the reaction of Indian Muslims, with duplicates of correspondence regularly forwarded to numerous offices back in India. Some papers are about the effort to evacuate British Indian refugees and pilgrims from the region.
Other subjects covered in the volume are:
- the build-up to and ultimate failure of the Kuwait Conference of 1923-24;
- King Fuad of Egypt's suspected financial backing of Ibn Sa'ud's takeover of the Hejaz;
- the defining of the Hejaz-Trans-Jordan border;
- the motivations and movements of St John Philby and Rosita Forbes, both of whom were thought to be trying to gain entryinto Central Arabia.
Notable in the volume are a newspaper cutting from The Times of Mesopotamia , dated 13 July 1923, regarding treaty negotiations between Britain and King Hussein (folio 4), and extracts of letters from Ameen Rihani to Ibn Sa'ud that had been intercepted by the British and which offer advice on foreign policy.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (295 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. The internal office notes at the back of the volume (renumbered as folios 247-258) include a chronological list of the main contents, together with a simple, running index number from 1 to 111. These index numbers are also written on the front of the documents they refer to, in red or blue crayon and encircled, to help identify and locate them within the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Main foliation sequence: numbers are written in pencil and circled, in the top right corner on the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering, which starts on the front cover of the volume and ends on the inside back cover, is as follows: 1A-1D, 2-262.
Secondary and earlier foliation sequence: the numbers 1 to 322 are written in pencil in the top right corner on the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, except for the internal office notes at the back of the volume, which are paginated in pencil from 1 to 23. Published copies of four British Government reports at the front of the volume (renumbered as folios 2-63) also have pencilled page numbers written on them.
Condition: broken spine cover.
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