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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for' [35r] (69/370)
The record is made up of 1 file (183 folios). It was created in 29 May 1932-25 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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I .£♦3406/1935
Al.lllxiU/xT, S.A.l
M.226/35. 17th May, 1935.
Sir,
I am commancled by My Lords oomaiosioners of the
Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the
Secretary of State for India iii Council, a copy of a letter
from the Joreign Office, with enclosures, on the subject of
the exchange of gun salutes in Iraq.
2. With regard to the gun salute to be given to the
Mutasarrif of Basra, Their Lordships appreciate that this
question involves political considerations with which They
are not primarily concerned. From the naval point of view*,
however. They would depreoate any action which might
encourage demands for a general increase in the scale of
salutes in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and They consider therefore
that the argument in paragraph 2 of the letter of the Iraqi
Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated the 14th November last
is not one to be encouraged. in their view it is
undesirajle to attempt to grade Governors with Naval
Officers lor this purpose, and cases must be decided in
their relation to the salutes given to local SheiMis and
other Governors.
3. Having regard to the present scale of salutes in
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, shown in the enclosed statement *A 1 , My
Lords would have no objection to an increase of the number
of guns at present accorded to the ; utasarrif to nine,
which is the number recommended by the Coramander-in-Chief,
East Indies.
4. As regards paragraph 3 of the letter from the Iraqi
Ministry of Foreign A-fairs, My Lords propose to ask the
Foreign Office to communicate the Boyal Naval scale of
salutes to the Iraqi Government arid to suggest that this
scale, which is in accordance with international practice,
should/
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence.
Specifically, the majority of the correspondence in the file relates to two main issues:
- Britain's decision to increase the official gun salute of the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait from seven to eleven in 1933.
- Britain's decision to grant the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait the title of 'His Excellency' in 1937.
The file contains two lists of all the region's rulers and their respective gun salutes/titles, one from 1936 (folios 73-75) and another from 1949 (folio 183).
The main correspondents in the file are British officials from 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. , the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait and the Admiralty. It also contains a limited amount of correspondence between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, some of which is in Arabic.
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- 1 file (183 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 185; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-184; 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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- IOR/R/15/5/183
- Title
- 'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 16r:18v, 21r:24v, 26r:141v, 144r:152v, 155r:159v, 161r:184v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence