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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [438r] (137/174)
The record is made up of 1 item (86 folios). It was created in Feb 1904-Apr 1905. 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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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,
1st April 1904.
Secret,
No. 15.
Aden 'Protectorate : proposed
introduction of tribal levies, and
other measures.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My Lord,
I have under had my consideration the correspondence which has
passed between your Government
and that of Bombay, relative to
the introduction of tribal levies
and other measures in the Aden
Protectorate, ending with your Secretary’s letter No. 464 E.A., dated the
10th of February 1904.
2. The main object which was desired in delimiting the external
frontier of the Aden Protectorate was the ascertainment of the line of
frontier, so that the Turkish authorities might not encroach or advance
beyond it without a clear understanding that they were violating the
British sphere of influence. In other respects the fundamental prin
ciple upon which British relations had been maintained with the tribes
around Aden, described by 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.
as “ the prin-
“ ciple of tribal responsibility coupled with a minimum of British
“ interference,” had been vindicated by its success, and the absence
of serious quarrels with the tribes and any entangling complications.
The object hitherto kept in view has been the reduction of the military
force, and the political establishments at Aden to the smallest limit
required for the defence of that coast fortress and its usefulness as a
coaling station, and a link in the chain of Imperial communication and
defence. I recognise the obligation which delimitation may involve, of
performing certain friendly offices for the Turkish officers, and m
particular for restraining the tribes within the British protectorate from
committing offences beyond the border. In this view it may be neces
sary to impose upon the Amir of Lthali and other tribal chiefs, by fresh
agreements, international responsibilities which they have hitherto
evaded But I should view with misgiving any tendency to extend
the range of our interference with the tribes themselves, cr to weaken
the defence of Aden itself by exciting opposition m the interior and
takhm part in tribal disputes which-do not affect external rela ions.
The increase of the military force at Aden is a contingency which, in
view of Imperial obligations elsewhere, it is desira e o avoic.
S. 17.
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Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘].
The correspondents include:
- Major-General Pelham James Maitland (later Henry 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;
- Colonel R A Wahab, Aden Boundary Commissioner;
- Government of India, Foreign Department;
- 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. , Political Department;
- 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;
- Major W Merewether, Political Officer at Dthala.
The correspondence discusses a number of matters integral to the new treaty, including:
- the deployment of a permanent Political Officer in Dthala;
- the need for an Arab levy to patrol the frontier with Ottoman Turkish territory;
- increasing the Amir's stipend and granting him a gun salute;
- relations between the Amir and the Kotaibi tribe.
Folio 382 is the revised treaty, signed 28 November 1905 (ratified 8 February 1905).
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