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'Proposed Transfers of Aden and Somali Coast to Imperial Government; and of Persian Legation to India' [‎6v] (4/14)

The record is made up of 1 file (7 folios). It was created in Jun 1890. 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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laws and mode of government are Indian, and the
officers whose duty it has hitherto been to administer
them have been selected from the Indian service. We
apprehend that if the transfer were effected difficulties
might arise with regard to the internal goverumeut of
the place which it is not now easy to foresee; and that
so long as the place is held to be an integral part of
the Indian Empire, and subject to the same system of
legislation as is in force elsewhere, these difficulties
would not present themselves.
6. For these and other reasons we consider the pro
posal to transfer the control of Aden to the Home
Government to be of doubtful expediency. Nor do we
consider the external relations of the place to be of
such a nature as to call for a change. Whether Aden
were under the control of the India or the Colonial
Office, questions of foreign policy affecting European
powers must necessarily be referred to the Foreign
Office. It is doubtful whether the settlement of these
diplomatic questions would be facilitated by the transfer;
and the Indian Government, which is directly or in
directly interested in all questions relating to the East,
might be trusted for bringing to notice matters that
required settlement, and for stating the case in a manner
conducive to British interests. But should circum
stances hereafter require that the authorities at Aden
should be brought into closer communication with the
Foreign Office, we think the preferable alternative would
be to adopt the course suggested by the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, and while retaining in our own
hands the control of the internal and military adminis
tration of Aden, and the political relations with the
independent tribes adjacent to the settlement, to
permit the Resident to be invested with the functions
of a Consul-General for those Provinces of Turkish
Arabia which are in contiguity to Aden.
2. No definite reply to the arguments
of the Government of India on this parti
cular point seems to have been received. Tho
arguments in favour of retaining control over
Aden and its dependencies still hold good.
It must also be remembered that there are
now protectorate treaties between the Govern
ment of India and the tribes round Aden,
covering the whole Coast of Hadramaut from
the Straits of Bab-el-mandeb to Oman. Perim
must be treated for the purposes of the present
reference as a part of Aden.
SOMALI COAST.
It is sufficient for the present purpose to
note that the first intimation received from
England that Egypt .was likely to abandon
Harrar and the whole Somali Coast was in the
telegram of the 9th May 1S84. Between that
date and October 1884, the control of the mea
sures taken by Major Hunter for facilitating
the arrangements for the evacuation, and for
concluding agreements with the local tribes
rested partly with the Indian and partly with
the Home Government.
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This secret and confidential memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office Press in June 1890, concerns the issue of the proposed transfer of Aden, the Somali Coast and everything connected with the Red Sea from the Government of India, and leaving British representation in Persia entirely in the hands of the Government of India. These issues are examined vis-à-vis Italian, French, German and Persian interests. The memorandum is divided into the following sections: 'Aden' (folios 5-6v), 'Somali Coast' (folios 6v-8v), 'Read Sea' (folio 8v), 'Summary' (folios 9-10) and 'Transfer of the Persian Legation to India' (folio 11).

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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 5, and terminates at folio 11, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 5-156; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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