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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for' [86r] (171/370)
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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B.Z. 1693/36.
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Wo. D.456-N/36.
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To
The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India.
The Under Secretary of State for India,
Political Department,
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.
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Dated Dew Delhi, the 20th February 1936.
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With reference to paragraph 7 of Sir Andrew Ryan’s
despatch Wo. 35£, dated the 10th December 1935, I am ^ l//
directed to forward a copy of a letter fro. the Hon’ble 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.
, Wo. 939-S, dated
the 5th December 1935, with enclosures, and to say that for reasons
given below the Government of India are in favour of addressing
the Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait in future as ’His Highness’,
and not as ’His Excellency’.
2. In support of this recommendation I am to refer to the
circular letter to Local Governments on the subject of the
use of the title of His Highness by Ruling Princes and others in
India transmitted to you under cover of the Political
Secretary’s letter Wo. 76-M, dated the P4th September 1925. It
was then decided with the approval of His Majesty’s Government
that the use of the style of ’His Highness’ mould in future be
restricted to Indian Ruling Princes and Chiefs enjoying
salutes (dynastic, personal or local) of 11 guns and over. The
Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait are both entitled to dynastic
salutes of 7 guns and to a personal salute of 11 guns,
and it follows that there is nothing under the orders of
1925 to debar the use of this style in
addressing/
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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