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'File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai' [‎132r] (263/536)

The record is made up of 1 file (266 folios). It was created in 11 Oct 1932-27 Mar 1940. 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# There remains one question which you mentioned to me,
that oi the transport of mails# You said that you wished
to undertake transport of the mails yourself and you
explained to me that you did not mean by this that there
was any objection to a messenger of the Post Office cariying
any small r^aount of mails, but that if a special launch
or a motor car were to be hired that it should be hired
from you. You said that you did not require special rates
but would be paid the ordinary rates for hiring launches
or motors. The mails are ordinarly landed by the B.I.S.N*
Company’s Agent at a fort, but I think that it might be
possible to agree that, if a special launch or motor is
hired,it should be hired from you at the usual rates.
6. You also mentioned the question of carrying the
Sharjah mails from Dibai as the steamer calls only at
Dibai on the down voyage and said that you would send a motor
car to Dibai to bring the maijo from the B.I.S.N.Company*s
Agent there and that you would provide guards and undertake
responisbility for the safety of the mail., from the time
when your guards take it over from the B.I.S.N.Company’s
Agent at Dibai to the time when it is handed over to the
Postmaster at Sharjab.. I am prepared to recommend this to
the High Covemment on the uilderstanding that our friend
Shaikh Sa’id bin Miktum of Dibai has no sksskiaa objection
to your guards entering Dibai to bring the mails
7. please inform me whether you accept these conditions
and if so I will recommend to the Hon’dtle tire Political
Resident that a Post Office should be opened as soon as
possible in Sharjah.
Usual Ending.
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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. ,Bahrain.

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The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the proposal to open a Post Office in Sharjah and Dubai. The Ruler of Sharjah requests that the name of Sharjah is printed on the stamps. The file also contains agreements with Imperial Airways for the delivery of mail, and arrangements for a suitable office at Sharjah. Whilst the Ruler of Dubai is initially against the opening of a Post Office in his town, further discussions develop in 1938 for the opening of a Post Office in Dubai (sketch on folio 208).

The principal correspondents are: the Ruler of Sharjah (Shaikh Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ); the Ruler of Dubai (Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm); Imperial Airways; the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited; the Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division, at Karachi; the Director of Post and Telegraphs at Karachi; the 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. Agent at Sharjah (Khan Bahadur Isa bin Latif, and from 1936 Khan Sahib Husain bin Hasan 'Amad); the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Kuwait; 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. ; and 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. at Bahrain.

There is some correspondence in Arabic, with English translation, with the 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. Agent at Sharjah, the Ruler of Sharjah and the Ruler of Dubai.

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1 file (266 folios)
Arrangement

The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 236-277. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 4-235 and ff 236-267; these numbers are written in a combination of pencil and red ink, but are either partially circled or not circled.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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