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Coll 17/19 ‘Iraq: Sheikh of Koweit’s Fao Date Gardens’ [‎335r] (669/675)

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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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no knowing what mipht bo th© eTonttial re atilt of etich
nroeeedlnre# hut he opined that it waa quite on the card*
that the 'thalkh of Kuwait would find him»elf ewentually
deprived of all his ^ao propertlee. In Mi same way that
many Baadun ownere of vast eetatee on the ^uphratea, hn
recent veare found theweelvea deprived of half and even no re
of thilr lande *hich had reverted to the trlbee ( 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. )
who irlpinally cultivated the lande # and had for centuries
been looked upon aa ’•earakeel",l*e. tenants oi the land.
t o counteract atioh a poeeihle move on the
Government ’a part Mr. Gahrlel «ald It was imperative for
the present ?*haSkh to take out ‘ apu papere. l*he preat
difficulty in doins thla eald Hr. Gabriel, wan that the
hoira to-day numbered two or three hundred aoula. inclndlnp
a host of women, and that the ^aikh would find it moot
difficult to pet hold of all their names, and have them
Included in any "’apu deeds taken out. He had nevertheleaa
advised the ^alkh to authorise him to tnke action on the
above lines but for the present the Shaikh, apart from
pointing out the almost insurmountable difficulties of
such procedure, had done nothing.
9. After Mr. Gabriel’s departure the halkh dis
missed the matter with me, and said he quite saw the
wisdom of Mr. Gabriel’s advice but felt the di fioul^ies
were too preat. and action on his part would be interpreted
by the manv members of his family to an attempt to rob them
of their rights. He was therefore real! afraid to act,
and must be plven time to think.
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10. A curious thin* recently happened in connection
with these ^o ’states. ^arly in Va 1033, the 'utasarttf,
Basrah, sent a committee down to 'ao to examine and value
the "haikh '* '%o nrowty. X oMnot eee wh«t rlf^t he had

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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:

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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