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Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb' [66r] (136/882)
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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and the Sheikh of Ras-al-Khaimah was indifferent to it ?
was it really worth allowing our relations with Persia
to be vitiate! by our obligation to protect an island of
no value which no one really wanted? Might it not be
better policy for us to take over the island now ourselves s
so that we should at least be free to use it if it should
prove desirable as part of a bargain with Persia under
which Persia would,, for instance j abandon her claims to
Bahrein s etc. , recognise the Arab rulers of the Gulf and our
special relations with them, and generally undertake not
to be obstructive to us in the Gulf? Would it not be a
mistake to renew our embarrassing commitment to protect
it for an Arab ruler who cared little about it and to
whom we owed so little? It was for these reasons that he
had put forward, as a purely personal suggestion, the idea
that we might take advantage of the Sheikh Ox nao al
Khaimah's apparent indifference to the island to take over
the island, either to keep, if it were of value, or to use
as a counter in negotiation, if it should prove valueless.
He did not suggest that we should necessarily formally
annex the island. His idea was rather that we should
take it over for the time being and decide subsequently
what to do with it.
As regards handing it over to Sharjah, he emphasised
that the Sheikh of Sharjah had never been mentioned in any
of the correspondence with the Persians during the last
five or six years as having any claim or title to the
island. On the contrary, we had insisted very surongly
on the fact that the island was a possession of the Sheikh
of Ras-al -Khaimah. He feared that our position v - s - ^
the Persians might be somewhat embarrassing if we now
suddenly took the line that the island was the property
of someone else. Obis would not of course have been
the case if we had told the Persians from the first that
the island was not the personal property of the Sheikh of
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (437 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:305v, 307r:337v, 339r:438v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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