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'The Seven Independent Arabian States [Yemen, ‘Asir, Hijaz, Najd, Kuwait, Jabal Shammar and al-Jawf]' [182r] (363/680)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in May 1935. It was written in English. 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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application to Bahrein of the " Restrictive Line," this being
a Jme laid down in that year by His Majesty's Government
between which and the Persian coast no naval hostilities
were in future to be permitted.
^ Redsscvtiou of P ersian c I clitti. Bahvein tTibutavij
to the Wahabis, 1836.
30. In the middle of 1836 the Sheikh, alarmed by a Bombay
communication from the Governor of Shiraz calling on him Selections,
as a Persian subject to tender his submission to the Shah
and by the possibility of the co-operation of the Imam of Lor - I ' 858 -
Muscat in^ a Persian attack on Bahrein, took steps for a
reconciliation with the Wahabi Amir. As a result he
agreed to pay a nominal tribute of 12,000 to the Amir,
the Amir on his side agreeing to supply troops for the
detence ot Bahrein against external attacks and to refrain
from calling on the Sheikh for marine transport in the
event of a \V ahabi attack on Muscat by sea.
a / t t ^ e Sheikh, with the prior approval of Her Lor I 860
Majesty s Government, was allowed to punish certain pirates.
In 1839 the Resident was invoked to settle internal disputes
m the ruling family, but the parties would not agree to any
settlement witjiout a guarantee by Her Majesty's Government,
which tier Majesty's Government were not prepared to give.
Egyptian Invasion of Hasa : Sheikh professes to be a
Persian Subject, 1839.
x t t ^ e Egyptians conquered Hasa and cap- Bombay
tured the Wahabi Amir. They thereupon demanded the Selections,
payment o± tribute and certain territorial concessions from XXIV ,
t e Sheikh of Bahrein. The Egyptian Commander about
the same time intimated to the British authorities his inten
tion to attack and reduce the island. The Sheikh appealed
lor assistance to the Government of India, but in the absence
of instructions from Her Majesty's Government the Govern
ment of India were at first not prepared to give him any
pledge and the Sheikh was instructed to decide for himself
as to waiting on the Egyptian representative. Much alarmed
by the proceedings of the Egyptians, "and perhaps even
more so by a rumour, apparently well founded, that the
oaiyed of Oman was intriguing with the Egyptians to
obtain ^and hold Bahrein as a fief under the Viceroy of
Egypt,' the Sheikh thereon professed, in reply to demands
n l a< r 1 e 0T ^ llln ? m the name of the Egyptians, to be a subject
ot the 1 ersian Government. Apparently as the result of
overtures by the Sheikh designed to substantiate this,
the
Prince Governor
A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925).
of Shiraz thereupon sent an envoy—one Lor I 862
Haji Qasim formerly supercargo of a trading vessel—to
reside Bahrein as Persian agent, "and to be the medium
oi receiving and transmitting tiie annual tribute which the
1 ersian authorities vainly flattered themselves the Bahrein
C net was^ disposed to pay for their countenance and
a t0 ^ ear a Honour and a letter to
tne feheikh. Ihe envoy was accompanied by a guard of Bombay
10 1 ersian infantry No details appear to be available | e | e T c ^' Q
about his mission, which was apparently a failure. AAiv,d8b.
33. On 1st April 1839 Admiral Sir F. Maitland, then p.fcis 375
commanding the Gulf bquadron, was instructed by the Sort, of
Government of Bombay
From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
to give the Sheikh all support Bomba y to
against the Egyptians, short of actually entering on
hostilities. If the Sheikh asked for a new engagement with dated4 - 1839
Her Majesty s Government he should offer to transmit his
proposjils to India. The Resident was simultaneously to
send a formal protest to the Egyptians. On the 18th April
2953 c
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This confidential memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office in May 1935 is a report by William John Childs concerning the seven independent Arabian states or autonomous areas. The report contains an introduction that states that the 'purpose of the paper is to give a brief outline each of the seven independent Arabian states', listed on folio 316, 'at the time of the Arab rising against the Turks in June 1916'.
The report is divided into sections covering each state as follows:
- 'The Imamate of Yemen ruled by Imam Yahya [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn]' (folio 316);
- 'The Principate of Asir ruled by the Idrisi [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsi]' (folios 316-317);
- 'The Emirate of Mecca (or the Hejaz) ruled by Husein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], Emir and Sherif of Mecca' (folios 317-319);
- 'Emirate of Nejd [Najd] ruled by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], Emir of Riyadh' (folios 319-323);
- 'The Sheikhdom of Koweit [Kuwait] ruled by the Sheikh of Koweit [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ]' (folio 323v);
- 'The Emirate of Jebel Shammar [Jabal Shammar] (or Hail [Ḥā’il]) ruled by the Emir of Hail [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Rashīd]' (folios 323-324)
- 'Jauf-el-Amir [Jawf al-Amīr, under the rule of Nūrī bin Sha‘lān]' (folio 324v).
A footnote on folio 316 records: 'This memorandum was prepared by the late Mr. William John Childs and found among his papers. A few modifications and additions have been made to bring it up to date'.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 315, and terminates at folio 325, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, a re circles, 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 also present in parallel between folios 4-327; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'The Seven Independent Arabian States [Yemen, ‘Asir, Hijaz, Najd, Kuwait, Jabal Shammar and al-Jawf]'
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- front, front-i, 2r:315v, 310r, 316v:339v, back-i, back
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