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Coll 30/88 'Question of residence of European women on the Trucial Coast.' [10r] (21/72)
The record is made up of 1 file (34 folios). It was created in 28 Mar 1933-6 Sep 1934. 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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2
the Shaikh and so forth,
I do not think either of these contingencies likely,
especially (b), but one has to take them into consideration,
4. It is true that women passengers in the Company’s
liners pass through Shargah, but normally they arrive late
one evening and depart the next morning, and passengers do
not - or should not - enter the town, (On this point
some time ago I addressed the Sheikh, and also wrote to the
Company). Anyhow should there be any risks attendant on
women passengers passing through Shargah they are
unavoidable if there is to be an air service at all on the
Arab Coast. This argument does not of course apply to
Mrs. Janes going to Shargah, and the fact that she would
live there permanently alters the problem considerably.
5. You will appreciate the fact that the responsibility
for allowing Mrs. Janes to go to Shargah would be entirely
mine. It certainly would not be that of the Company, and
though the Sheikh has - to the best of my recollection -
stated to Janes that he has no objection to Mrs. Janes
living at Shargah, this would help very little in the event
of an incident.
6 . I quite appreciate the desire of the Company to make
your Shargah representative happier, and as a married man
myself I think it distinctly hard that Janes should be
separated for long periods from his wife. The remedy,
however, appears to be in the Company* s hands. They can
either send a bachelor to Shargah, or - for married men -
make it as a short service post.
I am sending this, together with a copy of Fletcher’s
letter, to you through Laithwaite at 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.
, and
am asking him if he will be so kind as to send copies to
Bushire and the Government of India, and keep copies for himself.
Yours sincerely,
olonel Burchall, (Sgd. ) T. C. FOWLE
Imperial Airways Ltd.,
London.
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The file concerns the presence of European women in certain parts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and fears over the effects of their interaction with local communities.
Folios 19-32 relate to the concern of British officials that Imperial Airways passengers at Shargah [Sharjah] had been going into the town, including one woman who done so wearing beach pyjamas. The papers record that the 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle) intervened with both Imperial Airways and Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar [Sultan bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ], Ruler of Sharjah to ensure that passengers, especially women, were prevented from entering Sharjah without permission. British officials felt that European women in particular were at risk of being insulted or molested by members of the local population, with attendant political consequences for relations with the ruler.
Folios 13-18 concern the proposed temporary residence of a British woman, Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty in Bahrain and Kuwait. The papers record that the 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. asked British Government officials to ensure that in future he should be consulted first before visas were issued to women travellers to the Gulf, particularly if they intended to reside in any of the Arab shaikhdoms. The Foreign Office and the Passport Office agreed to the proposal.
Folios 2-12 concern a request from Imperial Airways that the Station Superintendent at Sharjah be allowed to have his wife live with him in Sharjah during the winter. The 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. vetoed the request because of similar concerns to those previously expressed in folios 19-32, and to avoid setting a precedent for such action in other parts of the Gulf that were as yet considered unsuitable for European women to live in.
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 (34 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 first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 34; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-34; these numbers are printed, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 30/88 'Question of residence of European women on the Trucial Coast.'
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- front, front-i, 1r:2v, 6r:7v, 8v:11v, 12v:19v, 23r:34v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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