'File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary'

Content

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary.

The main topics discussed include:

• The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan
• Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1920
• Ikhwan raids
• Kuwait Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1921
• Death of Shaikh Salim, 1921
• Boundary settlement

The volume includes an index (folio 232) which lists topics including: air reconnaissance; boundary, Kuwait-Iraq; Chasib mission; Council for Kuwait; letters with Ibn Sa'ud; trade with Najd.

The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait (James Carmichael More); the Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia, Baghdad (Arnold Talbot Wilson).

Extent and format

1 volume (231 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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 233; 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 2-232; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/5/100

Former external reference(s)

First Series Files: 5/C

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Nov 1920-24 Feb 1923 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

SlaveryColonial administrationTreatiesRulersBoundariesTrade (practice)

Places

BahrainNajd

People & organisations

Emir of KuwaitEmir of Najd and Hasa

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