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File 287/1917 'Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians' [128v] (269/324)
The record is made up of 1 volume (155 folios). It was created in 12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920. It was written in English and Urdu. 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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much encouragement as to the issues of the enterprise. Ghalib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
said that
the Turks were fully engaged in other parts and could neither send help to
Afghanistan nor armies to India. He did, however, give a
firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
of jihad to the
Maulana which was sent to India by M. Muhammad Mian, a member of the party
who returned to India in January 1915, and is said to have been used wth great
effect in setting up the fanatical tribes in Independent Territory. It was also
copied and circulated in India.
Both Maulvi Mahmud Hasan and M. Khalil Ahmad are also believed to have
had private audiences with Jamal Bey and Enver Bey in the Hedjaz some time in
1916, but nothing further is known about these meetings. M. Khalil Ahmad
*Mecca we now find. returned to India in September 1916, while
H. v. b. s. Mahmud Hasan and a few select members
of his party stayed behind in the Hedjaz and are presumably still in Medina.*
M. Mahmud Hasan had at one time some idea of going to Constantinople
from the Hedjaz, but we do not think that he has yet carried out his design He
was until lately in Mecca.
V. VIVIAN.
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The file contains papers, mostly 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. minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta.
The file includes correspondence 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 the following: the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir (Arthur) Henry McMahon; the Foreign Office; the Colonial Office; and the War Office. The file also includes correspondence between the High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir (Arthur) Henry McMahon, and the Foreign Office, and between the High Commissioner for Egypt and the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department.
The file includes photographic copies of the silk letters, which are written in Urdu (folios 63 to 66).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (155 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 157; 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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- English and Urdu in Latin and Arabic (Nastaliq variant) script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/648
- Title
- File 287/1917 'Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:22v, 24r:43r, 44r:48v, 48ar:48av, 49r:52v, 52ar:52av, 53r:62v, 70r:94v, 95ar:95av, 95r:97v, 99r:105v, 107r:111v, 114r:156v, 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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