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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [277r] (41/226)
The record is made up of 1 item (113 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1905-5 Oct 1906. 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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JPolicy in
hinterland.
No.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My Lord,
regard to the Aden I have considered Your Excellences Secret
Despatch in the Foreign Department, No. 119,
dated the 9th of August 190G, dealing with the
decision of His Majesty’s Government, conveyed in
my Secret Despatch No. 20, dated the 4th of May
last, and with certain questions connected with it.
2. The discussion throws light upon the views
which influenced the
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.
and
Your Excellency’s Government in the course which
has been recently pursued since the external
frontier of the Aden protectorate was (dearly
defined, and it emphasises the difference of opinion
which has arisen between the objects which the
local authorities and His Majesty’s Government
respectively seek to attain. The retention of a part
of the Aden garrison at D’thala, and the permanent
presence there of a British Agent, are advocated by
the former as a means of overcoming the reluctance
of the tribesmen to accept the suzerainty of the
Amir of D’thala, as a check to the spread of the
Pan-Islamitic programme in Yemen, as securing
for the Chiefs of the protected tribes ready and
friendly advice in the settlement of tribal disputes,
and as maintaining our reputation with the Arabs.
In the opinion of His Majesty’s Government, on
the other hand, British interests at Aden are
mainly centred in the British territory and fortress
at .Aden, and the primary object of recent arrange
ments with the Ottoman Porte was to reduce the
risk of international complications by arriving at a
definite understanding as to the outer boundary of
the tribal country in political relations with the
British settlement. Turkish aggressions of a
serious character have been very few since Aden
was occupied in 1839, and when they have arisen
such delay as has occurred in their settlement has
been due to the want of a map recognised as correct
by both the Turkish and the British Governments.
'Within the protectorate of the nine cantons during
the same period, there has always been some
measure of disturbance, and the precise authority
of the leading Chiefs has varied so much from time
S. 26. I. . B
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Part 2 of the file relates to future policy questions, in particular Britain's presence in the Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘] (sometimes written as Dthali) region.
The correspondents include:
- Major-General Ernest de Brath, 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 India, Simla;
- 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. ;
- 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. , London;
- Foreign Office, London.
The correspondence discusses several matters relating to British policy in the Aden hinterland, including:
- the murder of a postal runner near Sheikh Othman;
- the deployment of a Political Officer at Dthala;
- the withdrawal of all British troops and officers from Dthala;
- arms traffic in the hinterland;
- an extension of the railway into the hinterland.
The discussion is framed by the wider imperial policy of non-interference.
Folio 369 is a map entitled 'The Tribes and New Boundary of the Aden Protectorate'.
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- 257r:369v
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