'File 4/20 II Kuwait Situation: Constitution and Council' [52r] (103/400)
The record is made up of 1 file (198 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1938-18 Apr 1949. 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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In the Name of God the Compassionate
and the Merciful.
WE the Amir of Kuwait,
Being desirous that our countryman should he in
prosperity and as it is our aim to adopt the courses that,
as far as we are aware, would lead to their prosperity
and progress, and, as we wish to draw up a regulation
which suits their cultural and social standard, guarantees
to make them lead a life of happiness and content, gives
them the feeling of resting assured about their present
and future conforms to their national spirit^, and,
as it is our full desire and object that these ambitions
should be fulfilled, and, in the light of tie past
experience, we have ordered as follows:-
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Article 1. My Order of 11th Jamad al Awwal 1357
together with all its articles and paragraphs
is hereby cancelled.
Article. 2. This time a new Council of Administration
is to be formed composed of 20 members to
be elected from among the people of the
country.
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Article 3. Kuwait is an independent and unseparable
unity under the protection of the High
Briti^i Government and its lands are not
to be ceded to anyone. The nature of its
rule is ’Advisory*•
Article 4. All the engagements, agreements and
concessions which had been entered into*
before the date of this my Order and had
duly been signed by me or by the previous
Rulers, with H.B.M’s Government and others
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political developments in Kuwait. Specifically it relates to the suppression of an oppositionist reform movement (the majlis movement) that had successfully pressured the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to establish an elected administrative council in the country The correspondence in the file covers the period immediately after this council was dissolved onwards and discusses the various repressive measures subsequently taken, including the imprisonment and exile of several of its members.
The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait and the 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. in Bushire, but the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence with Shaikh Ahmad (in Arabic accompanied by English translations).
In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:
- a copy of the Organic Law of Trans-Jordan (folios 31-49).
- a draft constitution of Kuwait (folios 52-59).
- an article regarding the constitution of Kuwait published in al-Alam al-Arabi in 1939 (folio 61).
- a list of Kuwaiti youths that were alleged by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait to be 'anti-Shaikh and anti-British' (folios 122-123).
- a petition (in Arabic original and translated into English) that was sent to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from the wives of a number of political prisoners in Kuwait (folios 147-148).
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- 1 file (198 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 200; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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