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Coll 1/67 'Aden. Changes in administration in the event of separation from India: miscellaneous questions' [45v] (90/769)
The record is made up of 1 file (384 folios). It was created in 2 Jun 1936-15 Nov 1937. 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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of which I am forwarding you under instructions received. I am asked to request
that you will be so good as to forward this resolution to proper quarters with such
remarks in support thereof as you may deem necessary in the interests of those to
whom this question most concerns, viz., the mercantile community of Aden compused
of Indian and Arab traders and merchants.
I understand that the Jews as a community entertain similar ideas as those
expressed in the resolution, but were unable to attend the meeting on account of some ▼
festivities.
I have, &c.,
Framroze H. C. Dinshaw.
The Chief Commissioner,
Aden.
Resolution.
This meeting of Arab and Indian citizens of Aden view with alarm the contem
plated transfer of Aden to the Colonial Office, which if carried into effect would not
fulfil the pledges given by the Government of India through its accredited representa
tives from time to time. The transfer would be highly detrimental to the residents
of Aden, as they would be cut off from their Indian connexion which has proved so
far beneficial. The Colonial Government, it is feared, will not be able or willing to
look after their welfare as can be expected from India in which they are represented
in the legislatures. The salt protection duty of the Government of India has materially
helped the salt industry to this place and which will automatically cease to exist
immediately her connexion with India is severed. The bulk of the business is in the
hands of Indians, to whose wants the Colonial Office cannot show the same sympathy
as can be expected from the present Government. Postage and telegraph rates will
also go up automatically. Expenditure it is feared will be doubled or even trebled
by high paid English officers being imported direct, as is at present being done in
British Somaliland, and to meet which customs and other duties will be levied, to the
detriment of the trade of this port, which is already dwindling. It is also feared that
landlords will be materially affected by the change, as different laws and regulations
foreign to the citizens will be applied to Aden.
Further, this meeting strongly supports the various representations made by public
bodies to the Government of India and the emphatic protests they had received from
different quarters which now stand as good and strong as when they were made. The
news has caused surprise to Arab and Indian merchants, who have played an important
part towards the development of Aden ever since its conquest in 1839 and who have
very large vested interests in Aden.
This meeting also reminds the Government of India of the assurances they gave
in the Council of State and pravs that the Governor-General will, in the interests of
the Arab and Indian citizens of this port take up the same position his Government
rightly took up a few years back when this question was raised, and the step fraught
as it is with far-reaching consequences to the well-being of the inhabitants of this
place will it is hoped not be allowed to be carried out without consulting the people
most concerned and without giving the Indian Legislature an opportunity to examine
it in all its bearings.
This meeting requests that the Chief Commissioner of Aden will kindly impress
upon the Imperial Government, as well as the Government of India, that the transfer
will be hicffilv detrimental to the interests of Aden.
Enclosure 2 in No. 6.
(Confidential.)
Sir, 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.
, Aden, 19th April, 1933.
Future of Aden.
I have the honour to forward a translation of a letter which has been addressed
to me by a number of the leading Arab residents in Aden on the subject of the possible
transfer of the administration of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial
Office. This expression of their views is a direct result of the meeting held a few
days ago under the auspices of Mr. Framroze Hormusjee Cowasjee Dinshaw, which
was reported to you in my letter No. C/215 dated 18th April, 1933.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding administrative changes to be made upon the transfer of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office. The file consists primarily of correspondence between: the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly); 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. Political Department; the Colonial Office; and the Government of India Home, Foreign and Political, Finance, and Reforms Departments.
The file has been divided into the following bundles:
- 1. Memoranda, ff 5-73;
- 2. Flag, ff 74-79;
- 3. New buildings, ff 80-86;
- 4. Pension rights of Indian personnel, ff 87-95;
- 5. Personnel, ff 96-184;
- 6. Judicial and Revenue Stamps, ff 185-910;
- 7. Position of Consuls, ff 191-197;
- 8. Printing Press, ff 198-203;
- 9. Provident Fund, ff 204-210;
- 10. Application of international treaties and extradition conventions, motor vehicles (international rules), ff 211-325;
- 11. Future financial arrangements in regard to salt, income tax, supply of opium etc., ff 326-384.
The bundle titled 'Memoranda' contains a copy of Reilly's 'Note on Fourteen Points connected with the Transfer of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office, discussed at the Foreign Office in 1933', plus a copy of Aden. Question of Transfer. Papers, 1933 (Middle East No. 50), and related correspondence.
The bundle titled 'Personnel' concerns the issue of retaining Indian administrative personnel at Aden following the transfer, on their existing terms of service, for a period of five years. The correspondence also concerns the position of the District and Sessions Judge, which upon transfer would change to become Judge of the Supreme Court of Aden; the appointment of James Taylor Lawrence to the post upon the retirement of G B Constantine is discussed.
The bundle titled 'Provident Fund' concerns the creation of a new General Provident Fund at Aden upon transfer. Reilly proposes that the Government of India transfer over to Aden any monies standing to the credit of Indian service personnel retained permanently; the Government of India propose that the monies should be cancelled out against the value of buildings, civil debt and pecuniary liabilities etc. involved in the transfer.
The bundle titled 'International Treaties' concerns the applicability to Aden, upon transfer, of various international agreements, and discusses the need to formally notify foreign governments of the change. Folios 297-321 include lists of treaties, conventions etc. which applied to both India and Burma, drawn up upon the separation of Burma in 1935. Extradition treaties and international motor agreements are discussed in particular detail.
The bundle titled 'Future Financial Arrangements' contains notes on budget administration, financial management, the issue of the salt tax, income tax, customs arrangements, and the importation and control of opium and other regulated substances. Draft estimates based on the figures of revenue and expenditure for the years 1932-1935 are included at folios 371-383.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (384 folios)
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The file has been divided into eleven bundles, according to subject. Within the bundles, materials are arranged in rough chronological order, from the rear to the front.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 384; 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. The back of the external cover has not been foliated.
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