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Coll 6/19 'Arabia: (Saudi Arabia) Hejaz-Nejd Annual Report.' [‎170r] (340/540)

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The record is made up of 1 file (268 folios). It was created in 18 Apr 1931-18 May 1945. 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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161. The data on which conclusions (a) to (d) above are based may be
summed up as follows, with reference to the various centres :—
Mecca.
The Government maintain the following schools : (1) The Mahad-al-Saudi
or Saudi Institute, a centre of higher education for the training of teachers.
Founded in 1928. Four years’ course, largely secular. Legal studies provided
for in 1933. English compulsory. Thirty-five students and six teachers. (2) The
Madrassat-al-Hadith, founded in 1933. Devoted to the teaching of the traditions
of the Prophet. Twenty students and four teachers. Directed by an Egyptian
Imam. (3) The Madrassat-al-Ibtidaiyya, founded in 1924. Said, in spite of its
name, to give a secondary education. Four years’ course, largely secular. English
compulsory. Four hundred students and twenty teachers. (4) Three primary
schools in different quarters. Teaching of the Koran, reading and writing.
Nine hundred boys and thirty teachers in all.
The three principal private schools are these : (1) Madrassat-as-Soulitiyya,
run by Indian Moslems in a fine building of its own, with a boarding house and
primary school attached. Founded by a well-known Indian divine, Maulana
Rahmatullah, over fifty years ago. Well endowed. Imparts both religious and
secular instruction. Full course takes twelve years. Seven hundred and
thirty-four students of many different races and forty teachers. (2) Madrassat-
al-Falah. Founded in 1904* by Muhammad Ali Zeynal Ali Ridha, a member of
the well-known family of Persian origin, to which the late Governor of Jedda
belonged. Religious and secular education. Eight hundred students and
thirty-four teachers. English formerly compulsory, now optional. (3) There are
four less important schools run by natives or Indians and giving elementary
education to about 600 pupils. There is one Javanese primary school giving
religious education to about fifty pupils. There is a considerable frequentation
by Javanese and Malayans of individual preachers and teachers at the Haram and
elsewhere.
Jedda.
The Government maintain a secondary and a primary school similar to those
at Mecca, but catering for not more than 200 pupils with some ten teachers. The
principal educational establishment is the Madrassat-al-Falah, part of the
foundation of the same name at Mecca and run on the same lines with an eight
years’ course. There are about 700 pupils and twenty-four teachers.
Medina.
The Government maintain a secondary and a primary school, which cater
for about 600 pupils with about nineteen teachers. The most important
educational establishment is, however, a private one called the Madrassat-al-
Ulum-al-Shariyya, founded in 1922. It is run by an Indian divine and supported
by Indian benevolence. This gives secular, as well as religious, education and has
industrial classes. There are about 250 pupils and twenty teachers. An
orphanage, accommodating about 100 boys, was founded by a resident Indian
merchant in 1933. This provides religious, secular and industrial training.
Taif, Yambu, Wejh, Qunfidha, &c.
The Government maintain secondary and primary schools at Taif and
primary schools in the other smaller towns. In them, as in Mecca, Jedda and
Medina, there would appear to be a good deal of miscellaneous teaching in
mosques and in the private houses of teachers.
Students Abroad.
Information under this head is not very easy to collect. As regards persons
sent abroad by the Government, the principal informant supplies the names of
four students, who were sent to Palestine some years ago and whom he identifies
with the four who went to the Marconi school at Chelmsford in 1931 to learn
wireless work; three doctors who were sent to Paris, and two only of whom are
now in Saudi Arabia, the third having absconded after his return; two doctors
who were sent to Egypt and one of whom has stayed on to continue his studies at
his own expense; one engineer, who was sent to Istanbul and is now attached to

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This file contains copies of annual reports regarding the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) during the years 1930-1938 and 1943-1944.

The reports were produced by the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) and sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (and in the case of these copies, forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India), with the exception of the reports for 1943 and 1944, which appear to have been produced and sent by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda, Stanley R Jordan.

The reports covering 1930-1938 discuss the following subjects: foreign relations; internal affairs; financial, economic and commercial affairs; military organisation; aviation; legislation; press; education; the pilgrimage; slavery and the slave trade; naval matters. The reports for 1943 and 1944 are rather less substantial. The 1943 report discusses Arab affairs, Saudi relations with foreign powers, finance, supplies, and the pilgrimage, whilst the 1944 report covers these subjects in addition to the following: the activities of the United States in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East Supply Centre, and the Saudi royal family.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (268 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-12 and ff 45-268; these numbers are also written in pencil but are not circled.

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