File 37/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Frontier Delimitation' [414ar] (840/1104)
The record is made up of 1 volume (543 folios). It was created in 1901-1902. It was written in English and French. 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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123.— Fi'om Secretary of State to Viceroy, \ Uh November 1901.
Poreign, Secret. My telegram, 11th November. Aden frontier. Porto
nas appointed a Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel to proceed to Aden and there
join other officer on frontier for delimitating with British officers. Davies
should now he recalled to Aden. Communicate to me proposed instructions
to our Commissioners. I presume we shall not go beyond Wahab line, by
which we have always been guided.
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This file contains correspondence and reports related to the work of the Aden Boundary Commission, the British Government body tasked with the delineation of the borders of the British Protectorate of Aden.
The file contains a number of letters from Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, the Commissioner of the Aden Boundary Commission, sent to the Political and Secret Department of the 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. in London (and the British Political 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. in Aden). Also enclosed are extracts from Wahab's diary relating to his work on the commission.
The file also contains two memorandums written by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mallaby Abud of the Indian Staff Corps (Indian Army) that discuss the impact of adopting the boundary as recommended by the British commissioners and its impact on relations with tribes in the region (folios 191-195 and 358-367).
The majority of the correspondence in the file is in English, but also enclosed is a limited amount of correspondence from the Ottoman Ambassador in London that is in French.
The file contains four maps of the Aden border region (folios 67, 77, 268 and 368).
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (543 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The Subject 37 (Aden) consists of 5 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/63-67.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 543; 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.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/63
- Title
- File 37/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Frontier Delimitation'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:66v, 68r:76v, 78r:267v, 269r:284v, 286r:289v, 294r:296v, 298r:299v, 302r:302v, 305r:324v, 325ar:325av, 325r:330v, 331ar:331av, 331r:367v, 369r:369v, 372r:377v, 378ar:378bv, 378r:413v, 414ar:414av, 414r:480v, 481ar:481av, 481r:511v, 514r:517v, 518ar:518av, 518r:537v, 540r:542v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence