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'File 4/20 II Kuwait Situation: Constitution and Council' [50r] (99/400)
The record is made up of 1 file (198 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1938-18 Apr 1949. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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CQ!T T IDB!!TIAL «
D.0* NO. C/55
Political \gency,
Kuwait,
19th Pehruary, l r 39
My dear Sir Trenchard,
Some days ago the Shaikh sent to me privately
his draft Constitution for Kuwait, a copy of which I
enclose.
He asked for my private comments. The only
suggestion I made was that he should either cut out
the paragraphs stating that Kuwait was an Independent
State, or add that Kuwait was under British Protection.
He told me later that he had added that Kuwait was under
British Protection. I also suggested that the word
,, capa'ble H should he inserted in \rticle 14, with regard
to the heir-apparent, a suggestion which he has adopted.
2. More recently he told me that he proposed to
put this document before the new Council, whose sittings
he has suspended until the matter of the Constitution
is settled.
He said that he thought the present Council
would refuse this reasonable document. If so, he would
dissolve the Council and form another by nominating
«
influential and wise men.
3 . He then went off to narry a new Bedouin wife,
and I heard no more until today the 18th, when he told
me that he had put the new Constitution before the
Council.
The Hon'ble Sir Trenchard Fowle, KCIE., CHE.,
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 Oulf.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political developments in Kuwait. Specifically it relates to the suppression of an oppositionist reform movement (the majlis movement) that had successfully pressured the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to establish an elected administrative council in the country The correspondence in the file covers the period immediately after this council was dissolved onwards and discusses the various repressive measures subsequently taken, including the imprisonment and exile of several of its members.
The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait and the 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. in Bushire, but the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence with Shaikh Ahmad (in Arabic accompanied by English translations).
In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:
- a copy of the Organic Law of Trans-Jordan (folios 31-49).
- a draft constitution of Kuwait (folios 52-59).
- an article regarding the constitution of Kuwait published in al-Alam al-Arabi in 1939 (folio 61).
- a list of Kuwaiti youths that were alleged by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait to be 'anti-Shaikh and anti-British' (folios 122-123).
- a petition (in Arabic original and translated into English) that was sent to 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from the wives of a number of political prisoners in Kuwait (folios 147-148).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (198 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 200; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/206
- Title
- 'File 4/20 II Kuwait Situation: Constitution and Council'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:23v, 26r:30v, 50r:51v, 60r:60v, 62r:108v, 111r:119v, 122r:140v, 142r:146v, 149r:152v, 154r:157v, 159r:178v, 180r:188v, 190r:199v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence