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File 287/1917 'Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians' [131r] (274/324)
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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(ix) Maulvi MuhamrD.ad Hasan (Kabuli), resident of Peshawar or Hazara
North-West Frontier
Region of British India bordering Afghanistan.
Province.—Remarks regarding No. (mi) apply
also to this man. J
(x) Maulvi Mahmud of Aligarh or Bulandshahr, United Provinces —
Remarks regarding No. (mi) apply also to this man.
(xi) Maulvi Kosar Ali, of Nagina, Bijnor, United Provinces.—Was a fellow-
student of M. Mahmud Hasan at Deoband. Remarks resardum
No. (vii) apply also to this man. • g
(xii) Maulvi Niaz Ahmad, residence unknown.—Remarks regarding No.
(vii) apply also to this man.
All these maulvis visited and entertained M. Khalil Ahmad and M. Mahmud
Hasan during their stay in Mecca. It would be most interesting to know whether
this school has a political atmosphere or not. Our papers suggest that it has
been used to disseminate sedition among Indian pilgrims and we should therefore
like to know all the information obtainable regarding the institution and its staff,
as also of the school run by Qari Abdul Haq in Babi Ibrahim, Mecca, vide No.
(xvii), paragraph 2 of this note.
(b) A school at Medina, name unknown, run by Maulvi Husain Ahmad Madni,
an Indian of the United Provinces. The persons who seem to be connected with
this institution are as follows : —
(i) Maulvi Husain Ahmad Madni, son of Habibullah of Fyzabad District,
United Provinces.—The family migrated to the Hedjaz in 1899.
Husain Ahm.ad is said to have become very influential as a mudaris
in Medina. He is the uncle of Abdul Wahid [No. (viii) of M. Mahmud
Hasan’s party.] Husain Ahmad met and housed the two parties
at Medina and seem.s to have been in very close touch with them.
He also got for M. Mahmud Hasan an introduction to Enver Bey’s
father who arrived in the Hedjaz, while the maulvis were there, with
the mehmal. Husain Ahmad seems a disaffected and dangerous
man.
(ii) Maulvi Habibullah, father of (i).
(Hi) Saiyid Hasan, brother of (i).
(iv) Hakim Shafiq-ur-Rahman, of Ram.pur, United Provinces.—Settled in
Medina and met the maulvis. It is not clear whether he is a member
of Husain Ahmad Madni’s group.
(v) Abdul Wahid or Wahid Ahmad, son of Siddiq Ahmad of Tanda, Fyz
abad District, United Provinces.—Is the nephew of Husain Ahmad
[No. (i)]. Went to the Hedjaz in 1915 with M. Mahmud Hasan and
has now probably joined his uncle.
4. Financial arrangements of the conspirators. —Money seems to have been
sent to the conspirators from India through the following firms : —
(i) Ali Jan of Delhi.—The head of this firm in India is now Haji Abdul
Ghaffar, son of Ali Jan. He is a staunch Wahabi and presumably
the whole family adhere to the Wahabi tenets. There are two
branches of Ali Jan and Co., in the Hedjaz : (i) Abdul Jabbar Abdus
Sattar (the latter is now dead), and (ii) Abdullah Obeidullah.
These persons belong to the family of Haji Abdul Ghaffar.
Other members of the family in the Hedjaz are : Abdul Wahab, son of
Abdul Jabbar ; aged 18 ; Idris, son of Ahsan-ul-Haq, aged 17, and
Wahid, son of Ahsan-ul-Haq, aged 18—20. Another relative named
Obedur Rahman has recently returned to India.
There is some evidence that Abdul Jabbar was used as an agent by the
conspirators in the Hedjaz.
(ii) Haji Zain Ali Raza and Co., of Bombay and Jeddah.—This firm seems
to have been used a great deal by Hakim Abdur Razzak, brother of
the notorious Dr. An sari of Delhi for the purpose of financing the
conspirators. We have again recently heard that money has been
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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).
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The papers are arranged in 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 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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