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Ext 6299/46 'Travel facilities for pilgrims' [‎13r] (25/34)

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The record is made up of 1 file (15 folios). It was created in 13 Sep 1946-8 Mar 1948. It was written in English. 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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From Secretary of State for India.
To Government of India* Communications Department
He'peated to Political. Resident, . Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrein.
Deep* 23.40 hours, 19th September 1946.
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Your telegrams No 7950 and .7962 dated 12th and 14th
• September. He will inform you as soorT'ag permission of
Air Ministry for use of aerodromes at Kamaran, Aden and Riyan
ho.s been obtained, v
2, Assume you are awaro that permission of Govern: ents of Iraq.,
Palestine and Transiordon will be required for India Air Travel
Service Charter flight, that prior notification of flight must
be given to Government of Sgypt, and that you have taken necessar
action.
3, Permission of Sultan of Muscat will also presumably have
to be obtained and Rulers of Bahrein and Sharjah notified.
4, Assume also that you have permission of Ring of Saudi Arabia
for all repeat all proposed Mecca flights.
5, I am repeating your telegrams to Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as parts two md three.of this telegram.
Copy to Mr Warren, Air Ministry. '
Mr E.Ratcliffe-Cousins, C.S.I*, C.I.K. Ministry of Civil
Aviation.
Extarnal r•fnort ^
Mr R.G.Ballcwi 11, F neign Off!ee,
Bent by Mr Franca.

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The file contains correspondence relating to travel arrangements for residents of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, particularly regarding fees and repatriation responsibilities. The main correspondents are as follows the Government of India, Department of Communications; the Secretary of State for India and Burma; the British Embassy in Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . Matters discussed include the Government of India's plan to offer travel to pilgrims via an Indian National Airways chartered aircraft from Bombay to Jedda, and the permissions they will need to obtain from rulers of the region to do this. Folios 5 to 11 contain correspondence detailing the decision to waive deposits usually charged to pilgrims travelling from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sheikhdoms of Kuweit, Bahrein, Oman and Muscat, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , costs of which will be absorbed by the British Consul, Basra.

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1 file (15 folios)
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The file's contents are arranged in approximate 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 17; 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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