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File 600/1905 Pt 6 'Aden Hinterland: Upper Yaffai; treaties with Sultan Kahtan and other Chiefs' [36r] (67/212)
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No. 598 of 1915.
Political Department;
Bombay Castle, 1st February 1915.
Prom
L. Robertson, Esquire,
Secretary to Government, Bombay,
To
The Political Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign and Political Department.
Sir,
i am directed to refer to the letter from the
Government of India in the Foreign Department No. 170-D.,
dated the 21st December 1913, which conveyed sanction to
the payment for one year to Sultan Umar bin Kahtan of the
Upper Yaffai, of the stipend of 50 dollars per mensem
formerly paid to his late father Sultan Kahtan bin Umar.
2. The
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.
at Aden reports that Sultan
Umar bin Kahtan has not been able to come to any definite
terms with his uncle, Saleh bin Omar, who is in possessio.:
of the family's "dar", and that he doubts whether Sultan
Umar will ever be able to do so. Major-General Slaw i-
however of opinion that it would be politically in
expedient to throw Sultan Umar bin Kahtan over at present
as his uncle, Saleh bin Omar, is well kuoiwri fo; his
Turkish proclivities, and that the only alternative is to
continue the stipend to Sultan Umar bin Kahtan which
is sufficient to maintain our treaty relations with
the Upper Yaffai. I am accordingly to request that the
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Part 6 of the file relates to treaty relations with tribal sections of the Upper Yaffai [Upper Yafa].
The correspondents include:
- 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. , Aden;
- Political Officer, Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘];
- Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ;
- Government of India;
- 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. , London;
- Foreign Office, London.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- a treaty with Sultan Kahtan-bin-Omer Har-Hara [Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar al-Harhara] of the ruling dynasty of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the Muflahai [Al-Muflihi], Mausatta [Al-Mawsata], Hadthrami [Al-Hadhrami], Al-Shaibi, and Dthubi [Al-Dhubi] sections of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the ruler of Behan-Al-Kasab [Bayḥān al-Qasāb] and the ruler of the Upper Aulaqi territory;
- an agreement with Shaikh Mutahir Ali [Muṭahir ‘Alī] of ‘Ardaf in Shaib to maintain boundary pillars along the borders of his territory;
- the question of who should be recognised as Sultan of the Upper Yafa, particularly after the death of Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar in September 1913;
- payment of a regular stipend to the Sultan.
Folio 98 is a genealogical chart of the Sultans of Yaffa'i al-Sufal.
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