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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for' [56r] (111/370)
The record is made up of 1 file (183 folios). It was created in 29 May 1932-25 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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Extract from Jedda letter to foreign Office,
K 0.553 of 10th December, 1935.
(29 50/332/19*7)
Deceived under Bushire l.L.No.G/l of 15th Jany,
1936 (I.D.Do.38, D/17.1.36).
Original on File 1/1-4, page 16 8.
A.
7. I ventured to discuss with Colonel Fowle and
the Political Agents, quite privately and without in any
way pre-judging your views, a suggestinn of my own that
it would strengthen the position vis a vis I bn Baud in
discussions affecting Kuwait (and Bahrain), if moans
could be found to confer upon the ohaikh (and on the
Shaikh of Bahrain, for similar reasons) the title of
"His Highness". As I explained to the Political
Resident, I am well aware that this suggestion nay
present difficulty from other points of view, but I
hatelong felt that, in correspondence with the Daudi
Government, in which I have so often to impress on
them the importance attached by His Majesty’s Govt,
to the position of the Ghaikh of Kuwait (and that of
the ohaikh of Bahrain) as an independent ruler, I
should have to use the title of "His Excellency", which,
however respectable, is normally borne by subjects and
which moreover, has nowhere been so belittled by
indiscriminate use as in the Near and Middle East.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch and
enclosure to Government of India, Bushire and Kuwait.
I have the honour to be with the highest
respect,
Gir ,
Your most obedient,humble
servant,
Gd o. Calvert.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence.
Specifically, the majority of the correspondence in the file relates to two main issues:
- Britain's decision to increase the official gun salute of the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait from seven to eleven in 1933.
- Britain's decision to grant the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait the title of 'His Excellency' in 1937.
The file contains two lists of all the region's rulers and their respective gun salutes/titles, one from 1936 (folios 73-75) and another from 1949 (folio 183).
The main correspondents in the file are British officials from 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. , the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait and the Admiralty. It also contains a limited amount of correspondence between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, some of which is in Arabic.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (183 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 185; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-184; 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/15/5/183
- Title
- 'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 16r:18v, 21r:24v, 26r:141v, 144r:152v, 155r:159v, 161r:184v, 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