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'File 53/1915 Pt 2 German War: Turkey; the Caliphate and Pan-Arab movement' [67r] (138/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 1915-1916. 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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Coryv to India,
3 DEC 1915
1
JCT2T.
Decypher, Sir H. Mch^hon (feieh) November 30th.
D. 8.5 p 0 m.
Mover
R. 10.40 pan.,
No. 736.
Your telegram No- 867,
You will have now received full text of Shereef’s letter.
It is satisfactory as snowing a desire for mutual understanding
on reasonable lines. It also affords an opportunity of meeting
the wishes of Government of India with regard to Mesopotamia
by some change of formula, but I cannot personally think of any
formula on that subject wore favourable to Indian interests than
the one employed in my former letter, without raising Arab
suspicions.
I think criticism of Government of India and Secretary of
State ignores the very great importance which the Arabs attach to
Baghdad and Irak, by their historical religious and economic
reasons. It- is quite impossible to come to any general understand
ing with Arabs without some acknowledgment that Irak is in theory
part of Arabia proper.
With regard to nonentity of Shereef or his pro-Turkish
proclivity I can find no corroboration of this here or in the
Sudan, or amongst other Arabs with whom we are in touch nor in
the attitude of Ottomon Government towards him. Everything would
tend to prove that he is of sufficient (&roup■■tmdcuypncrabItrHmg
importance, by position descent and personality,, to be the only
possible central rally in ■•point for mrab cause, and sufficiently
anti-Turkish to be in great personal danger at Turkish hands.
Again the present Arab movement it must be remembered
is based on national rather than religious grounds and differs
widely from pan I slam ism with which Arab party disdain sympathy.*
There
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the war with Germany and Turkey and implications for the Caliphate and the pan-Arab movement. The discussion in the volume relates specifically to the view of the Government of India on Sir Henry Arthur McMahon's correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, Grand Sharif of Mecca. Also included are the views of Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes.
The volume includes the text of the Grand Sharif's letter and the text of Sir Henry McMahon's reply. Further discussion surrounds the advance on Baghdad, the protection of Muslim shrines and the deferment of any public pronouncement until the city had been captured by British forces.
The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Secretary of State for India; the Grand Sharif of Mecca (Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī) and the Viceroy (Charles Hardinge).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, subject headings, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 55 (German War) consists of 5 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/524-527. The volumes are divided into 5 parts with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume each, parts 3 and 4 comprising the third volume and parts 5 and 6 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; 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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- 'File 53/1915 Pt 2 German War: Turkey; the Caliphate and Pan-Arab movement'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:85v, 90r:91v, 100r:108v, 110r:157v, 159r:192v, 197r:219v, back-i
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