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File 600/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Sultan of Balahaf' [126r] (35/152)
The record is made up of 1 item (74 folios). It was created in Sep 1904-Jul 1906. 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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We merely advised you to communicate with Mohsin, as until the
money is paid you will remain a prisoner.
(Signed) E. S. Pottinger, Captain,
First Assistant Resident, Aden.
From
Sultan Mohsin lin Saleh,
The Wahidi of Balahaf,
To
Colonel Abud, Resident, Aden.
After compliments.
We have received your letter wherein you desired us to come to you at the
port of Balahaf. We made up our mind to come to you, but on reaching
Jubaibra we met the soldiers whom you ordered, after the capture of your friend
Sultan Ahmed bin Saleh, to withdraw from the fort. We have been informed
of what you have done at the port of Balahaf. Now we send you this letter
for the purpose of being informed of the cause of your doing so. *We send you
a special messenger wdth whom please send the reply.
May you be preserved. Salutation.
20th Rabi Thani 1320 (25th July 1902).
From
Sultan Mohsin bin Saleh,
The Wahidi;
To
General Abud,
Resident, Aden.
After compliments.
We inform you, oh friend, that we have already addressed you a letter and
sent it by a special mesenger to Sultan Ahmed Fadth-al Abdali. We informed
you therein that we have received your letter, and that we have not the amount
that you mentioned. You have * destroyed our places, detained our brother
Ahmed bin Saleh as a prisoner and closed the ports of Balahaf to trade. This
action is not conformable with the treaty between you and us. The
buggalow
Large trading vessel.
was wrecked. We did not plunder it. W’e shall submit to your orders
regarding the specie and are ready to pay it, but the sea to our ports is closed,
and there is dread in the interior. When the season for trade opens we shall
send the same to our brother Ahmed bin Saleh. Should you then find that we
are entitled, according to rule, to any salvage such as the Fadthli and others get,
then we request it. We want your friendship. Perhaps Saleh bin Abdulla has
written to you with the intention of getting the Sultanate and the treaty. He
has no power to do so. There is customary practice between us, the Arabs. You
wrote to him to fight us. Your Government will give no countenance to such
an order and, further, that we are not at fault.
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Part 5 of the file relates to the negotiations over a treaty with the Wahidi [al-Wāḥidī], ruling family of Balahaf [Balhaf] and Bir Ali [Bīr ‘Alī].
The correspondents include:
- General Harry Macan Mason, 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. at Aden;
- Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ;
- Government of India, Foreign Department;
- numerous tribal leaders and representatives.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the power struggle between Sultan Mohsin bin Saleh (al-Wāḥidī) and his father, Saleh bin Abdullah;
- Mohsin bin Saleh's submission to the British in December 1904 and his subsequent election as chief of Balhaf;
- Saleh bin Abdullah's attempt to sell his share of Balhaf to Sultan Ghalib of Maculla [al-Mukallā];
- the conclusion of a treaty with the Wāḥidīs on 13 November 1905.
Folios 158-161 contain tables of information on the tribal sections and sub-sections under the Wāḥidīs authority, a list of Wāḥidī villages, and a Wāḥidī genealogical chart.
Folio 148 is a copy of the final treaty between the British and the Wāḥidīs.
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- File 600/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Sultan of Balahaf'
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- 109r:147v, 149r:184v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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