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File 600/1905 Pt 6 'Aden Hinterland: Upper Yaffai; treaties with Sultan Kahtan and other Chiefs' [14r] (23/212)
The record is made up of 1 item (104 folios). It was created in Jan 1904-Feb 1920. 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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TH£ HKailKSCY,
UAlL^h,
.September 191^.
air,
With reference te your despatch U o. A.4oo4
of September ord, lulV, i hare t3:ie honour to
request that futther details should be supplied
to me to enable me to report more fully te the
foreign Office on the settlement of the present
state of affairs in Upper fafai. The agreement
tfhich you outline ih paragraph b of your despatch
will involve i is majesty’s Government in expenses
which op the facts as stated in your despatch do
not appear to be commensurate with the results which
will be obtained.
i should be glv-d. to know therefore, if
when the agreement was being made between these
two bultans any British Officer was present seeing
that it was British money which was being bartered
and that according to the recom?oendations for a
settlement both oultans emerge with an enhanced
position ^nd settled me^ns.
I should imagine that it would be sufficient
for Ills majesty’s Government to transfer the stipend
from the "de Jure” bullan to the w de facto" bull an
on the understanding that the latter should accept
the former back in the family j; a r, and X should not
i* el inclined to recommend a, payment of a further
stipend to nultan Omar.
The question of the payment
The Political neaident.
/of the
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Part 6 of the file relates to treaty relations with tribal sections of the Upper Yaffai [Upper Yafa].
The correspondents include:
- Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Aden;
- Political Officer, Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘];
- 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. ;
- Government of India;
- 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. , London;
- Foreign Office, London.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- a treaty with Sultan Kahtan-bin-Omer Har-Hara [Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar al-Harhara] of the ruling dynasty of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the Muflahai [Al-Muflihi], Mausatta [Al-Mawsata], Hadthrami [Al-Hadhrami], Al-Shaibi, and Dthubi [Al-Dhubi] sections of the Yaffa'i al-Sufal tribe;
- treaties with the ruler of Behan-Al-Kasab [Bayḥān al-Qasāb] and the ruler of the Upper Aulaqi territory;
- an agreement with Shaikh Mutahir Ali [Muṭahir ‘Alī] of ‘Ardaf in Shaib to maintain boundary pillars along the borders of his territory;
- the question of who should be recognised as Sultan of the Upper Yafa, particularly after the death of Qaḥṭān bin ‘Umar in September 1913;
- payment of a regular stipend to the Sultan.
Folio 98 is a genealogical chart of the Sultans of Yaffa'i al-Sufal.
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- File 600/1905 Pt 6 'Aden Hinterland: Upper Yaffai; treaties with Sultan Kahtan and other Chiefs'
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- 3r:58r, 59r:74v, 76r:76v, 78r:78v, 80r:89v, 91v:99v, 101v:102v, 104r:104v, 106r:108v
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