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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [148v] (308/431)
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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159. The authorities in India were able to get a quotation of 40
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per head direct from Messrs. Turner, Morrison and Co. for the repatriation of
destitutes. A sum of 80
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
was collected from two persons who seemed able
to contribute to the cost of their return. 1 he actual amount expended on behalf
of the Government of India was 11,880
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, £24 gold and 11^ Saudi riyals.
160. The usual precautions were taken to guard against fraud, to provide
the authorities in India with lists of the persons repatriated and to take from
each an undertaking to repay the money expended. "M I ^
160 a . The problem of the destitute Indian pilgrims has been fully dealt
with in previous reports. Table (b) in paragraph 158 above shows that it is still
very largely a question of persons who reach the Mejaz oveiland. The Govern
ment of India are still considering by what means this traffic can be brought
under control. The matter is undoubtedly very thorny, as so many of the persons
came by land from remote parts of Arabia, the access to which from India may
be difficult to regulate. It is nevertheless desirable that the problem should be
tackled, lest the development of motor transport {cf. paragraph 86) should
increase its dimensions.
160 b . In so far as the problem relates to pilgrims who originally came to
the Hejaz by sea, but for one reason or another have not the means of returning,
good results may be expected from two sets of measures adopted by the Govern
ment of India, viz., (a) measures to restrict severely the issue of single tickets at
the ports of embarkation, both by administrative action and by including in the
Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Act a clause doing away with the former
provision enabling pilgrims to take single tickets on making a sworn declaration
of not intending to return to India within three years; and {b) measures to check
more strictly clauses by departing pilgrims to be regarded as foreign; especially
Saudi nationals, and to impress on those travelling as foreigners the fact that
they cannot later look for assistance as being British nationals in the Hejaz.
The Government of India have been obliged to discard, owing to opposition or ^
anticipated opposition in India, two suggestions made in previous reports, viz., | te i e ,
that the validity of return tickets should be prolonged and discretion given to the
Legation to allow or disallow refunds at any time during the period of validity,
and that return tickets should be made compulsory all the year round (see
paragraph 184 of last year's report, which adverts to all these points).
161. The whole subject of refunds on return tickets, which is so important
an element in the problem just discussed, forms the subject of a separate
despatch to the Government of India. A particular aspect of it, not primarily
connected with the problem of destitutes, is mentioned in paragraph 153 above.
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162. A second edition of the Guide for Pilgrims to the Hejaz was issued by ^nms
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year. This booklet contains information of the greatest utility to pilgrims
including much information about pilgrimage conditions in the Hejaz, the
medical and other facilities provided there by the Government of India and
precautions which should be observed by pilgrims in their own interest. The
second edition gave also the Legation's tentative estimate of expenditure likely to
be incurred by Indian pilgrims in 1933. Notwithstanding what was said in
paragraph 190 of last year's report, the inclusion of this feature is valuable
provided that it be intended to reissue the guide each year and that official
information regarding the prospective cost of the next following pilgrimage is
available in time. It is not anticipated that there will be any great change in the
Saudi official tariff for 1934, but it has not been issued up to the time of writing
(July 1933). It would therefore be unsafe to reprint last year's estimate in the
guide or otherwise pending the receipt of further information from the Legation,
which will forward it to the Government of India when available.
163. The signboards for the offices, &c., served by the Indian and medical
sections of the Legation have been supplied from India in accordance with the
suggestion mentioned in paragraph 192 of last year's report, but were not received
in time to be brought into use during the 1933 pilgrimage.
Banking Facilities.
164. There has been no change in the position described in previous reports.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1ar:1cv, 3r:13v, 15r:201v, 203r:209v, back-i
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