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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [94r] (199/431)
The record is made up of 1 volume (213 folios). It was created in 21 May 1923-2 Mar 1937. 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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for motors and arabas—-the latter for the journey from Mecca to Arafat. Extra
charges weie made toi the necessary kit, which hitherto the pilgrims were allowed
to take with them 11 ee of charge. I his was, it is said, done with the co-operation
of the motoi owners at the time when pilgrims had seated themselves in the cars
and were about to start, ihose who refused to pay were detained. The free
choice of pilgiims in the purchase of sacrificial animals at Mina was greatly
hindei ed. Pilgums fi om I eshawar, North-West hrontier Province, were, in
respect of mutawwifin s fee, treated as pilgrims from the Punjab, whereas the
formei have to pay a smaller fee than the latter. In many cases the cash entrusted
by certain pilgrims to their mutawwifin for safe custody, both in the Hejaz as
well as in Iiidm pi 101 to their departure were embezzled, forged accounts being
presented to make up the balance. Remittances made by the relatives of pilgrims
through their mutawwifin were not delivered in full till the Indian vice-consul
threatened to lefuse them permission for the journey to India. Instances of the
mutawwifin marrying Bengali women, bringing them here, stripping them of all
their belongings and then divorcing them and driving them out penniless and
helpless, were again not lacking. Cases of the mutawwifin charging pilgrims for
both journeys, but actually purchasing single steamer tickets, which fact the
latter came to know on reaching Jedda, also came to notice."
113.
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
Ihsanullah attaches importance to a case of a different kind,
for which he knows no precedent and which may be placed on record, although
the attitude of the woman concerned made it impossible for the Legation to take
official cognisance of it. A respectable Indian from Sind brought on Haj the
wife of one of his servants. She was missing when the party were about to leave
Mecca on the return journey to India, and was traced to the'house of a person of
bad character, who is a favourite of the Amir Faisal and reputed to serve him as
a pander. She had apparently been removed to this house from that of the
mutawwif in unascertained circumstances. Ismail Ghuznavi, who assisted
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
Ihsanullah in the matter, saw the girl and vainly endeavoured to persuade
her to go back to India. In these circumstances he could do nothing further, and
the woman remained in Mecca, notwithstanding the efforts of her late employer to
procure her return.
(9) Indian Pilgrimage.
114. this section deals with various matters connected with the Indian
pilgrimage which have not already been covered in the more general preceding
sections.
115. The arrivals of ships carrying Indian pilgrims in 1931 began with
that of the steamship "Rezwani," which reached Jedda on the 13th January
with 865 pilgrims, and ended with that of the steamship "Rehmani" on the
22nd April. As was the case last year, only two lines, the Mogul (Messrs. Turner,
Morrison and Co., Ltd.) and the Nemazi, were engaged in the traffic.
116. The following table shows the number of pilgrims from each province
of India and Ceylon, classified according to ports of embarkation ;—
B ritish Subjects.
Province.
Bengal and Assam
Punjab
Bombay
United Province
Madras
Sind
Bihar and Orissa
Central Province
Baluchistan
N.w.F.P. ...
Hyderabad (Deccan)
Delhi
Burma
Ceylon
[6274]
Bombay.
Karachi.
Calcutta.
Total.
940
13
323
1,276
98
1,453
1,551
1,045
27
1,072
915
167
1
1,083
392
392
349
349
103
5
108
245
73
318
17
129
146
97
265
362
373
11
384
104
78
182
12
1
41
54
15
15
4,356
2,566
370
7,292
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The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in London, the British Residencies in Bushire and Aden, the High Commissioners in Cairo and Baghdad, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud.
Contained in the volume are the annual reports on the pilgrimage composed by the Agent in Jeddah for the years 1929-1935 inclusive. Each report consists of some or all of the following:
- a general introduction;
- information on quarantine;
- statistics;
- information on health, transport, customs, 'mutawwifs' (pilgrim guides), religious policy, tariffs and the cost of pilgrimage, and pilgrims from other Muslim regions of the British Empire (India, Afghan, Malay, West Africa, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Sarawak, Somalia, Zanzibar and East Africa, South Africa, Aden, Hadhramaut, Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait).
Other documents cover the following subjects:
- the Hajj under King Hussein and the implications of a Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Cities;
- an attack on Yemeni pilgrims by the Ikhwan in August 1923 and the subsequent fighting;
- an Egyptian Medical Mission to Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina to assist with the pilgrimage;
- Jeddah's water supply;
- a new motor road between Medina and Najaf;
- Japanese interest in the pilgrim trade;
- the formation and progress of a National First-Aid Society in the Hejaz and Nejd;
- the religious tolerance of the Wahhabis, specifically the kissing of the Black Stone in Mecca.
At the back of the volume (folios 205-206) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (213 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover, the numbers written in pencil, circled, and 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. The only irregularities are the first three folios (ff 1A-1C).
Fold-out folio: f 2.
There is an inconsistent and incomplete pagination sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled.
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