Coll 17/19 ‘Iraq: Sheikh of Koweit’s Fao Date Gardens’ [51r] (101/675)
The record is made up of 1 file (337 folios). It was created in 3 Jul 1933-25 Apr 1939. 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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level off "the Shaikh** roai" to the ^a*r. There wa* t
as Mr. Coater understood it f no question of outting
trees, but he did in fact out son* 180 from the right
side of the road, where the trees belonged, not, as
on the left aide of the read, to the Ta*ab, but to the
Shaikh.
8 . HaJi AhJoad as-salim, the Mudir, was employed at
Vho and at Siba in the pact, and my predecessor
Colonel !4or© had some years ago to ta'i® active steps,
and visit the shaikh’s estates, to counter his
machination there, and he has, according to Coster,
given It out that he has beaten the Shailch onoo, end
will do bo again. This is I presume is a threat to
obtain money, blackmail in fact, and the shaikh’s son
tells me that he felt it wise to give him £30, since
the cutting, and bos promised him Rs. 1,000/- perlodiceHJ
9. as Coster was only on the 18th quite unnecessarily
prevented by the Mudir from building some small works
in connection with incinerators in the village, this
"hush money" seems fc> have started working successfully,
10 . Coster himself also constantly referred to the
MUdir as having now been shown as plotting to "squeeze
the lemon", Coster being the lemonJ
11 . I refrain from adding more unpleasant details.
A change of Mu dir would appear advantageous, and Coster,
whose letter of explanation, in reply to that of the
shaikh’s lawyer (a copy of which he showed m® but which
has not yet readied me) does not agree with his verbal
explanation to me, should I think be warned to be more
careful in future. With the memory of difficulties in
which he involved us all in 1936 - see your telegram
No.T/43, doted TUtfait, 26th April 1936, fresh inhis
memory, and his twelve years* experience, he would I
think have been wise to distrust the uudir more tte* he
appears to have dome.
Yours sincerely,
Sd^^^jkS^de^Jeur^^^^
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The file contains papers, mainly correspondence and 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. Minute Papers, relating to the Shaikh of Koweit’s [Kuwait’s] date gardens at Fao [Al-Faw] in Iraq. It includes correspondence concerning:
- Unrest among the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. [agricultural labourers or peasants] on the Fao estates in 1933, with the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. refusing to pay rent and reported to be committing acts of sabotage and intimidation, claiming that they are the owners of the soil and that the Iraqi Government would make them proprietors in place of the Sheikh of Koweit.
- The role of the Mutasarrif of Basra in the unrest.
- HMG’s representations to the Government of Iraq to take action to stop the unrest amongst the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. .
- Legal issues preventing the Shaikh of Koweit from proceeding with law suits in the Iraqi courts against certain of the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. at Fao, relating to the refusal of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice to confirm the Shaikh’s Power of Attorney to his agent.
- Trees of the date gardens at Fao being cut down in the Spring of 1938 by the local Iraqi authorities to clear the ground for a road, and the question of the Shaikh of Koweit obtaining compensation.
The correspondence mostly consists of correspondence between 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 the Foreign Office, correspondence between 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 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. , and copy correspondence sent to 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. by the Foreign Office and 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. . The main correspondents in the copy correspondence are as follows: the Foreign Office; 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. ; HM Ambassador, Baghdad; HM Representative, Baghdad; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait; the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs; and Shaikh Sir Ahmed Al-Jabir As-Subah, Shaikh of Koweit.
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 (337 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 337; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 6-336; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:10v, 12r:14v, 16r:23v, 25r:81v, 83r:100v, 103r:120v, 123r:125v, 128r:147v, 149r:149v, 151r:181v, 183r:183v, 185r:202v, 204r:206v, 211r:228v, 231r:241v, 243r:271v, 274r:283v, 285r:303v, 307r:307v, 310r:337v, back-i
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