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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for' [81r] (161/370)
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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P.2. 3172/36.
S. 2085/2085/91.
PORSIGk omCii, 3.W.I.
7th May, 1936.
Sir,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to request you
to inform the Secretary of State for India that he has had
under consideration your letter ho. P.Z. 1693/36 of the
17th April, regarding the proposal that the Sheikhs of Bahrain
and Koweit should in future be addressed as "Highness”
instead of "Excellency'', and to state that, in deference to
the views expressed by the Government of India, and subject
to the following observations, Mr. Eden does not wish to
raise further objection to this proposal. /> J ^
S. Mr. Eden observes, however, that in paragraph 4 of
your letter ho. f.E. 1693/36 of the 17th April, it is
implied that these Arab rulers are not under the suzerainty
of the Grown. Furthermore in the correspondence forming the
enclosures in your letter under reply, reference is made by
the Government of India, and by thelolitical Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, to the "juridical independence", and by the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at koweit to the "independence", of these
rulers. Mr. Eden desires to make it clear that, while it has
often been found convenient to refer to them as "independent
rulers in special treaty relations with His Majesty’s
Government", he is advised that, in international law, the
effect of these treaty relations is that these rulers are in
fact not independent sovereigns but merely the rulers of
British protected states enjoying a large measure of internal
autonomy, and are only "independent sovereigns" in the sense
that the Indian Princes or the rulers of the Malay States are
so treated in English Municipal law by the English Courts.
The Under Secretary of State,
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.
.
3./
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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