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'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905' [‎93r] (192/366)

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The record is made up of 1 file (181 folios). It was created in 9 Jan 1905-9 Dec 1905. 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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Telegram, dated the 24th March 1905.
\ Fr0m ~ J - H - M0SAH4H ' Es 9-' His Britamrio Majesty'. Consul, Basrah,
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,.^-me Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Departm^flB
Please ref^ to your telegrams dated the 14th and the KJth March 1905.
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the relations Cetween the W of , ? at i! as ., ! 3eci1 decl( led. But
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March m.—¥a.nk Haji Nejim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and Meer Alai Sarim Bes who
toBSad on U the r ^ t0 ^bal ShamZ.retrned
to Baghdad on the 28th February last. They are both reported to be ill
Three soldiers also returned with them, one is said to have had his band
bitten by a horse and another to have been seriously kicked by a torse
. TIie , men sa y ^ lmY e been well fed throughout their march but
that water was occasionally scarce. During a six days' march water was
doled to them in very small quantities, until on the 6th day of the maTch
they reached some wells m the desert, where they found a copious sunulv of
sweetwater The men say that they have left the force at T place cailed
Elina about four days' distance from Jabal Sbammar.
, t , f Llv l ? T 7"^ ? a ^ a . ("l 10 , ha!l arrived from Suleimanieh and afterwards
kft for Nejef to join Faizi Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ) wiU, it is said, replace Perik Haii Neiim
Pflislia,, and M ggf Alai Bassim Bcsr of the 43rd Tipo-imprif fniroo f hn i
of Meer Alai Sarim Beg (Sent to Embassy, Constantinople.) P aCe
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political developments in Kuwait and its vicinity.

The correspondence discusses the ongoing conflict between Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] and the ruler of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar and head of the Rashidi tribal dynasty, Abdul Aziz Ibn Mitab [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Mit‘ab] as well as Ottoman attempts to intervene militarily in support of the Rashidis and re-assert their authority in the region.

A limited number of letters contained in the file are direct correspondence between Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, the Ruler of Kuwait and various British officials. This correspondence discusses Kuwait's relations with both the Ottomans and the British.

The British authorities' desire for Bubayan island to be considered a part of Shaikh Mubārak's domains (at the expense of the Ottomans) is discussed at length in the file.

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1 file (181 folios)
Arrangement

File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.

An index of topics discussed in the file is included on ff. 2-3. This index uses numbers related to the foliation system printed (using a mechanical stamp) 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.

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Condition: A bound file.

Foliation: The volume has been foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page. There is an earlier, possibly original, foliation sequence that runs through the volume, which uses a mechanical stamp.

The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 102a.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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