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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [135v] (282/431)
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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19. Besides the three persons just named, the following Indians of
distinction made the Haj :—
M. Nasrullah Khan, M.L.C., United Provinces; Khan Bahadur Qaim
Uddin of Sind; Mian Mohammad Naqi, brother of His Holiness Mian
Muhammad Taqi of Bareilly; Khan Bahadur Seyyid Ahmed Jiffry of
Malabar; Khan Sahib Hajji Abdul Ghani, president of Karachi Hajj
Committee; M. Hasan Ali P. Ibrahim, vice-president of Bombay Hajj
Committee; Dr. Rajab Ali Patel of Bombay.
The most notable Indian pilgrims who visited the Hejaz during the off season
between the 1932 and 1933 pilgrimages were Mumtaz Ali Khan, second son of
the
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
of Maler Kotla; Khwaja Shahbuddin, brother to the Minister of
Education in Bengal; and Dr. S. A. K. Jeelani, ex-M.L.A., Madras (see
paragraph 7 (&)).
20. Other pilgrims of distinction this year were the Amir of Katsina in
Nigeria, with a numerous suite, the Amir of Qatar, two junior members of the
ruling family of Bahrain, several Afghan diplomats, including the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Faiz Muhammad Khan, and Lady Evelyn Cobbold.
21. The only Indian agitators of known importance who came on Hajj this
year were Hasrat Mohani and Ismail Surati. The most conspicuous absentees of
this class were Ismail Ghuznavi and Muhammad Khan Ghazi Khan. The former
was refused permission to leave India for the Hejaz for reasons connected with
his anti-British activities and Communist attaches. This decision of the
Government of India involved the Legation, and especially the Indian vice-
consul, in some odium, although His Majesty's Minister had deprecated it on the
grounds that it would indispose Ibn Saud and that Ismail Ghuznavi, whatever
his politics, had in recent years been helpful in connexion with pilgrimage
matters. A meeting of Indian pilgrims in the Haram after the pilgrimage
adopted a resolution strongly criticising the ban imposed by the Government of
India on this person. It is not known whether Muhammad Khan was also
formally refused permission. He is of less interest to the Legation than Ismail
Ghuznavi, but he is intimate with the Saudi Minister of Finance.
22. Another political suspect who made the Hajj was Ghulam Siddiq, a
former Afghan diplomat and a brother to the Ghulam Nabi who was recently
executed for complicity in a pro-Amanullah conspiracy in Afghanistan.
23. The arrangements for the dispersal of the overseas pilgrims worked
satisfactorily, and the bulk of them were embarked within an unusually short
period after the pilgrimage. The usual difficulties arose in connexion with
destitutes, but on no spectacular scale, considering the badness of the times.
Particular categories will be dealt with in the appropriate sections of this report.
24. H.M.S. Penzance (Commander A. R. Farquhar, D.S.C., R.N.) paid the
usual Haj visit to Jedda. She stayed from the 1st April to the 8th April and
took part in the annual regatta for the pilgrim fleet. Seven Somali naval ratings
performed the pilgrimage.
25. The judicial authorities in Syria are still dealing with the matter of
forged rupee notes. There has been no further circulation of such notes in the
Hejaz.
26. Well over 2,000 Dutch East Indians who had remained in the Hejaz
from previous pilgrimages and had become destitutes were repatriated after the
1933 pilgrimage at the joint expense of the Government of the Netherlands East
Indies and a charitable fund. A much more modest effort to make a clearance of
Malayan destitutes is recorded in paragraph 181.
27. No progress seems to have been made towards a settlement between
Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Relations are not unfriendly, but there is no question
at present of a resumption of the practice of sending a Sacred Caravan from
Egypt.
28. The Afghan Government detached their consul at Bombay for service
in Jedda during the pilgrimage. He obtained a formal exequatur as consul in
Jedda, but stayed only from the 16th March to the 25th April.
29. The Kiswa or cover for the Kaaba was again made by Indian weavers
in Mecca for this year's pilgrimage, probably in deference to the resentment in
certain quarters at its having been imported from Germany in 1932.
30. No cases of the enslavement of pilgrims so definite as those mentioned
in paragraph 33 of last year's report came to the notice of the Legation in 1933.
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- Content
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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