Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb' [29r] (62/882)
The record is made up of 1 file (437 folios). It was created in 9 May 1930-15 Dec 1935. It was written in English and French. 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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whole, not as their purely personal property. For many
y ears pnxor to 1887, the management, administration, and
jurisdiction of the two islands was by common consent vested
in the chief* Jowasimi Sheikh of the Persian coast, that is,
the Sheikh of Lingah, a near relative of the Sheikhs at
Sharjah and Ras-ul-Khaimah* This administration was carried
out on behalf of tne family as a whole. After the extinction
of the Lingah principality in 1887, the administration of
Tamb was transferred from Lingah to Ras-ul-Khaimah, and may
be said to have been looked upon locally as connected with
the Ras-ul-Khaimah district of the Jowasimi Sheikhdom of
Sharjah, while Abu Musa was attached direct to Sharjah.
This administrative division was maintained when Sharjah and
Ras-ul-Khaimah were temporarily re-united early in the present
century and when they finally became entirely separate, with
the result that Abu Musa belongs nay as always to the Sheikh of
Sharjah and Tamb has belonged since 19£1 to the Sheikh of Ras-
ul-Khaimah .
8. Although, therefore, the Sheikhs of Lingah who
administered Tamb and Abu Musa were at one period Persian
vassals and even Persian officials, this fact was in no way
whatever responsible for their connexion with the two islands.
The Jot asimi owned Tamb and Abu Musa long before any of their
number established themselves on Persian soil; the dominant
Sheikh of the clan (and the greater part of the clan) never
ceased to reside on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
; the rights of the
Lingah Sheikhs, which were in any case derived from their
family connexion and not from their position in Persia, were
at all times shared with, and subordinate to, the rights of
the Sheikhs on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
; and when the Lingah Sheikhs
were/
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This file contains correspondence related to the disputed ownership of the Tamb (also written as Tanb and Tund) [Greater and Lesser Tumb] islands between Ras al-Khaimah and the Government of Persia. The islands of Abu Musa and Henjam and their status are also mentioned intermittently throughout the file.
The file is largely composed of internal correspondence between British officials at the Foreign Office, 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. , Royal Navy (including the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
In addition to this, the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence between British officials and the Government of Persia, some of which is in French.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains the following:
- Two copies of a memorandum by Mr Lascelles entitled 'Persian Claim to Tamb and Abu Musa (folios 26-32 and 141-145).
- A 'Note on the Arab Custom of Holding Property "In Common"' written by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 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. in Kuwait (folios 40-44).
- An 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. report entitled 'Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa and Sirri' (folios 347-350).
- A memorandum entitled 'Suggestion that the Island of Tamb Might be Leased to Persia (folios 419-422).
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 (437 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 for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 439; 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 present between ff 4-436 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:305v, 307r:337v, 339r:438v, back-i
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