File 287/1917 'Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians' [‎80r] (170/324)

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WQ have silent about £70 ssi. nee \ire cae© her© to Malta and have re-
tween CEO and 830 left. We bought dal and oil. The jgii. here Xa
nixed with fat and we cannot us© it, nor do we us© butter# hav© not
ibourjit clothes as we have them but now we need them* Hash in bad been ^
Btayw^g in Bombay for. six months before we went# Tna Ha i b of MOkalla
near Aden also holds a jar.ir in the Hyderabad state# Before the war
he was in Hyderabad# ftSsHTm knew him there. Has him imd son© idea of
loina to Moka 11a# The Hals iiad returned to Hokalla before the war began.
>him did not go to Bombay till after# . He was waiting in Bombay hoping »
to get a passport but that had not been given. I knew he was there a.© we
corresponded. He is related to my wife# His father, Abul^as^mnad
brother B.Ahmad who also lived in Hyderabad. My wife ^
S.Ahmad. He was alive so far as X know when I left# _ 3 na^ a.^ily
quarrels. S.Ahnad was fonder of his other wife tna* 01 my »o.aer-ln-law.
Second marriages are falling out of favour in India. X do not reckon the
relatlvet of Sy wife as ny relations. Athar Husain's grandfather and my
grandfather were own brothers. The reason for my y 5 ?/*® ^ b ? onne °h^ ut9JB
ith mv wife. Athar Husain and I eacn owned shares in Deoohabi. Disputes
ftrose about oolleotiona. Our Karindas fought and made thing# wor#e.
l iere was talk of a partition. I worked out the expenses Inoludi..^, cost
all Courts up to the Board and estimated tne cost at R. 1,000. i
thought it was not -ortil it so we made a private partition and got Jie
arrangement recorded in the village papers. ihe quarrel begem out 8
or 9 months before I went to the UajJ and was set'led about three months
^pfore From the time X went home from Lucknow after studying medicine
and ^ time I went to the ilajj I remained generally at home. Bdmstlmes
I went to different places, Lucknow, Cawnpore. Kliaoa ad, -al i, ca
I have never been to Calcutta or Hyderabad. I nave been to Bhopal s^d
to iioradabad. When I was in Lucknow I usen to live in # ’»«»« in^mrious
iwai Tola. When I went to Lucknow af t rwa h Hoiwcharbarhl I had
sarais, especially Digbijai oingh’s near the l t-tlon (Charbaghl . I
no special friends there. When 1 was studying we had a stri/.e at the
'Here. There ?f©ro two otuderts, sons of a Ha/..im or Hawa , .
was Bafl«r AXi Khan. They had not so good a grounding in Arabi c
as me had and^xfpt us imek. We asked that they might be taught separately
" * t f , ' re f 0 n 'x’He Hakim refused and we left the College# ih^
as v»© want©.., t get on# - R^ahld favoui'eci them
he gave in and taught the™ separately. Hakim Abdurhasnid ravomea
•so I was not very friendly with him. Also we do not think him e*.
Lu.4 *i *1 yy fatlier was a Hakim and so was my gr&ndf at* ©r, , T _ __„
skilled. ' darbari in the U.P. His name was Har.im Abul rii-sar..
Hurshidabad and was a daroari in c u. • ul Ir3had . Th. Qirat-
I have overheard of the Jamlyat Hash ull I nav0 800n
ul iiuran is the same the Mazarat-ui^maarxi wa ' do not r9a d the Calcutta
Al Hilal but did not taise Iti**# ^ , v\b-ta 11 both wont to
caners much# iiasnim really intended to go to hokalla* - " ' u . T
papers acn# about 15 days. We got passports in Bombay# i
f okalla a »d I staye-. t ere about lb » hour. I applied in Bombay and got
M no certificate or paesport Jrom raw^ur ^ Ada y for th9 M ajJ. We fo«
k passport for kokalla. i, t ‘2tpamer for the HaJj for a month and hokalis
at Bombay that there would be no steamer for the Uved in the
was on the way. I guve ny ; ;‘‘tebpur ^ve ue *.1.000. I }»a treats some
kairf house as his guests. Iae al ® ^* t u “ 0 AdSn^d waited 15 clays,
peonl© there ana given medici #^ _ ^ « Bo^bav steasier• I took
going on to the HaJJ in a ing boat, not in^ a no.Ja^ no
h.500 from home. We ^ytthe^-l.OOOin jj reaBons wh y I went
noney left when he was at Bombay. .hat was ° r " lar9d the money and he
to Hokalla with him to get money for him. Ue ! ^tHer! I did not
took h.500. When Hashim went back I wrote to my ^her.^yiia ^
write to my wife nor to Athar Husain. hack. X wrote nothing else,
to ay mother tn- • t 1 was well and .» , ' s ,f * Br being asked hw Haahim
I hid not write to laris Husain. 0 en ^^.a^terlelng
three letter.), I •ro^to^y^th^^.Wngher^^^
At tne end of ^xl . . transmitted to th© Hodjaz • X told my
deposited with All Jan at Bellii is ^ lf 8il0 had not sent the K.500
mother(i.e. in l«tter Bert y „ to be the balance of the «=.1,000
she should pay it to Haanim. i-- of it . the 800/- was sent
we got at Hokalla. 1 did no. ' ' ft ' \ v mother told me in a letter
but did not get to Mecca before 1 • " inquiries have been made by the
saddressec to Malta that sne had • latter to my mother.
Governor of Malta about it. X wrote the T^i °iP^ c « Be
She other letters to Athar Husain and Haris Husain vere writ*