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File 600/1905 Pt 4 'Aden Hinterland: Proposed Treaties with the Sultans of Beda and Audali; Treaty with Beda held in abeyance' [‎218r] (67/158)

The record is made up of 1 item (78 folios). It was created in Jan 1903-Dec 1914. 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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From
^ultHn Ali bin Abdulla Am—Rasasi,
of B e d a ,
To
Kajor General E. BeBrath, C.B., C.I.E.,
Folitioal Resident, Aden.
A.C. ^
We send you this letter from the territory of Beda where
y - 1 J o°od. fou are aware of the former trouble. We
hope that you are conversant with the matter of the controversy
Ex-Sultan x
-md the innovations. When Ali bin Ahmed was reigning before,
he had left the country uncared for. When we found that it was
uncared for, we took charge of the Sultanate which was our
hereditary right. We got the Sultanate through Sultans, tribesmen
and Munsabs, all of whom made it a condition on us that we should
remove the newly introduced practices and cause peace to prevail
in the country and on the roads and we undertook to do so. We
therefore asked the Abdali in the matter of the innovations and
also asked him to send back our fugitive subjects who had bolted
in the time of Ali bin Ahmed, but as he refused to do so, a
fight ensued between him and ourselves and you have already come
to know of the same. Eventually the son of Ahmed bin Husein,
the Fadthli, came to us saying that he was deputed by you and

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Part 4 of the file relates to negotiations over treaties with the Beda and Audali tribes of the Aden hinterland.

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The papers cover several matters, including:

  • an attack by Saidi and Hasani tribes on a British survey party in January 1904;
  • the conclusion of a protectorate treaty with the Audali tribe on 19 September 1914;
  • a delay in securing a treaty with the Beda tribe and the reasons behind it.
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File 600/1905 Pt 4 'Aden Hinterland: Proposed Treaties with the Sultans of Beda and Audali; Treaty with Beda held in abeyance' [‎218r] (67/158), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/75/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026748151.0x000029> [accessed 9 May 2024]

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