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Coll 30/107 'Koweit: Rules of succession in Koweit.' [56r] (111/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 25 Jan 1935-19 Feb 1948. 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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9
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MINUTE.
Our assurances to the Sheikh are contained in
Article 9 oi* the lease of 1907* which should be read in
the light of the Government of Indian telegram of 10th
January 1908 (both flagged below). The Government of
India state that there was no intention of giving a
dynastic pledge. Since that date the situation has
essentially changed in that Turkey is pledged to abstain
"de toute immisction dans les affaires de Koweit, y
compris la question de la succession", whereas H.M.G.
are not. All that we are pledged to is not to change,
"en rien la nature de (nos) relations avec le
Gouvemt. de Koweit", and not to establish a protectorate.
It would appear therefore that our hands are free.
The Turks are further pledged to appoint as Kaimmaham
"le successeur de Sheikh defunt".
The assurance which Sir P.Cox and the Government
ol India now propose to give of course goes beyond our
former assurance - that is the point of it. But it is
not at all a dynastic pledge, in that it is given only to
Mubarak personally, and it seems sufficiently guarded in
its language. Koweit on one side and Muhammera on the
other are the two pillars on which the arch of our
position at the head of the Gulf rests. It is
morally certain that we cannot afford to allow either of
them to be weakened or to pass out of our influence.
The situation at Muhammera - where the Sheikh also asks
for further assurances, and where Sir W. Townley^ less
than half-hearted support of him against the Bakhtiari
tends towards disintegration - will come under
consideration very shortly. As regards Koweit it is
submitted that it is desirable to give thiB personal and
strictly/
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The file concerns the rules of succession for the rulers of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit).
The papers cover: correspondence dated 1935 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 Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon of The Times concerning the article on Kuwait for the new edition of the Statesman's Year Book ; letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 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, dated 14 February 1935, concerning the question of the appointment of an heir to the Shaikh of Kuwait; the question of the succession in view of the sudden and serious illness of the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], May 1942; and an enquiry from the BBC concerning the locally-accepted date of the accession of the Shaikh of Kuwait, February 1948.
The papers also include copies of earlier correspondence dated 1913-21 relating to the succession in Kuwait at that period.
There are no papers in the file dated 1936-41 and 1944-47.
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 (59 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 61; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3830
- Title
- Coll 30/107 'Koweit: Rules of succession in Koweit.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:16v, 18r:19v, 22r:42v, 45r:60v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence