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File 13/5 'Foreign Consular representation in Kuwait (and Persian Gulf)' [‎8r] (15/136)

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The record is made up of 1 file (68 folios). It was created in 1 Nov 1933-25 Apr 1949. 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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status to their representatives would make
it difficult for us to refuse a consular
concession to the Persians.
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. and the Government of
India had been definitely opposed in 1928
to a proposal, made with the oeject of
reconciling Persia to the abandonment of
her claims to the Islands, to establish a
Persian Agent in the island for face-saving
purposes and had reported that such a
proposal would have to be forced on the
Sheikh with bad reactions a long the Arab
littoral. The appointment of any foreign
consular representative would make it
difficult to refuse a similar.concession
to the Persians and the Saudi Government
aid it seemed probable that the objections
of the sheikh of Bahrein to any such
proposal would be no less definite than
those of trie sheikh of Koweit.
9. Colonel Fowle expressed his general
agreement with the suggested principles and
with the course of action outlined above %
He said that the sheikh of Koweit h
the past and would still be very strongly
opposed to any foreign representation in
his State. The same was true of the
Sheikh of Bahrein. Apart from any general
political objections to the establishment
of foreign representation such
8 .
In tiie case of Bahrein the
representation would have to he forced on
tiie/

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The file contains papers of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Kuwait, relating to foreign consular representation in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

Papers dated November 1933 to February 1935 include:

Papers dated March 1948 to April 1949 consist of correspondence relating to Indian consular representation in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file does not include papers for the period March 1935 to February 1948.

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1 file (68 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; 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.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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