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'File 2/5 IV SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS' [32r] (68/494)
The record is made up of 1 volume (243 folios). It was created in 12 Oct 1933-26 Oct 1934. It was written in English, Arabic and Turkish. 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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You oak me to giro you auy Information obtainable
regerdlng the extent to which the title to property In
B**i**k depend# on the steps ts en by the Revenue Commissioner
under this notification. I am advised that there is little
risk that any Tepu deeds given by the Revenue Cow*!satoner In
regular manner, and In conformity with Turkish lew, will be
Impugned. You will see from the notification Itself that
Tcmu deeds were to se prepared “under the former laws and
’orders' and It la reasonable to assume this was adhered to
and that sanado were lnwued in a regular mannor and are, for
all purposes, valid. The danger of invalidation of title would
only exist where Tapu deeds were Issued Irregularly and not in
strict conformity with the technical requirements of Turkish
law. There are no means of ascertaining whether any irregular
deeds were Issued. v e know that In the Paddaghiyah case this
was so, but tt la quite likely thut this was the only Instance,
briefly put, there is no attack upon the validity of the re
opening of the or of the bona fide transactions
registered therein. The flaw in the Paddaghly*>h title deeds
exists because the Revenue Commissioner In Issuing them went
outside the terms of his notification and, for reasons which at
the time appeared to be good and compelling, granted them not
in accordance with the “laws ?md orders’.
I am driven to the conclusion that we should not be able to
argue with conviction that the non-validation of the Tapu deeds
issued for the Fciddaghlyah estate would have a serious
detrimental effect upon regular Tapu transactions carried out
In >ssrah during the Occupation. Tt is the legality of these
particular deeds, not the operation of the Tapu Department,
which Is In jeopardy.
Yours ever,
(rigned) Oeorgs O. Forbes.
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- Content
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the agrarian troubles in the Shaikh’s gardens caused by the tenants and the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. working there who were refusing to pay revenue to the Shaikh.
In the volume, British officials discuss issues related to the land registration granted to the Shaikh by Sir Henry Dobbs, Revenue Commissioner, Basra, in 1915, and the importance of obtaining an original copy of the claimed Power of Attorney authorising the sale of the land by Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al-Zuhair.
British officials correspond with the Shaikh and his lawyer, Jacob Gabriel. The lawyer in turn reported to 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. , Kuwait, and to the Shaikh of Kuwait, on a few issues, including: the troubles caused by the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. , procedures at the court in Basra, the Iraqi Government’s involvement in the case and the Iraqi Limitation Law.
The volume includes copy of legislations under the title "Fellah’s Rights and Duties" (ff 58-68) issued by the King of Iraq and published in Al-Waqa’i‘ Al-Iraqiyya newspaper. It also includes notes of a meeting (ff 101-114) held at the Foreign Office, on February 1934, between British officials discussing the date gardens case.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (243 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- 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 245; 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 7-240; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- English, Arabic and Turkish in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/143
- Title
- 'File 2/5 IV SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:9v, 13r:15v, 23r:32v, 34r:41v, 44r:46v, 49r:53v, 55r:58r, 69r:71v, 73r:79v, 85r:85v, 89r:130v, 134r:142r, 143r, 145r:150v, 154r:162v, 166r:185v, 188r:194r, 195r, 196r:196v, 201r:206v, 209r:220v, 224r, 227r:228v, 236r:236v, 239r, 240r, 241r:244v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence