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File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position' [155v] (319/402)
The record is made up of 1 volume (195 folios). It was created in 6 May 1917-8 Oct 1919. It was written in English. 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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7. But you people of Baghdad, whose commercial
prosperity and whose safety from oppression and
invasion must ever be a matter of the closest concern
to the British Government, are not to understand
that it is the wish of the British Government to
impose upon you alien institutions. It is the hope
of the British Government that the aspirations of
your philosophers and writers shall he realised and
that once again the people of Baghdad shall flourish,
enjoying their wealth and substance under insti
tutions which are in consonance with their sacred
laws and their racial ideals. In Hejaz the Arabs
have expelled the Turks and Germans who
and proclaimed the Sherif Hussein
and Ids Lordship rules in inde
freedom, and is the ally of the
fighting against the power of
so, indeed, are the noble
oppressed then
as their King,
pendence and
nations who are
Turkey and Germany
Arabs, the Lords of Koweyt, Nejd, and Asir.
8. Many noble Arabs have perished in the
cause of Arab freedom, at the hands of those
alien rulers, the Turks, who oppressed them. It
is the determination of the Government of Great
Britain and the great Powers allied to Great
Britain, that these noble Arabs shall not have
suffered in vain. It is the hope and desire of
the British people and the nations in alliance
with them, that the Arab race may rise once more
to greatness and renown among the peoples of the
earth, and that it shall bind itself together to this
end in unity and concord.
9. 0 people of Baghdad remember that for
'2() generations you have suffered under strange
tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one
Arab house against another in order that they
might profit by your dissensions. This policy
is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies, for
there can be neither peace nor jn'osperit}’ where
there is enmity and misgovernment. Therefore I
am commanded to invite you; through your nobles
and elders and representatives, to participate in the
management of your civil affairs m collaboration
with the political representatives of Great Britain
who accompany the British Army, so that you may
united with your kinsmen in North, East, South,
^fnd West m realising the aspirations of your race.” '
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This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding negotiations and administration, largely between the 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. , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, and the Government of India, after the occupation of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad) on 10 March 1917. The negotiations concern the administrative organisation and political control of Mesopotamia, as well as the external and internal boundaries of Iraq (also spelled Irak in the volume).
Related matters of discussion include the following: the text of the Baghdad proclamation; the future administration of the territory by the Foreign Office instead of the Government of India; the regulation of the new territory; the responsibilities of the Chief Political Officer in the new territory; the Turco-Persian frontiers. The correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials. The principal correspondents are as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox; Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude; the War Office; the Secretary of State for India; the Political Department, 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. ; the Under-Secretary of State for India; the Viceroy of India; the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department; the Foreign Office; the Government of India.
In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains reports of the War Cabinet's Mesopotamia Administration Committee, as well as the following documents: memoranda on external frontiers and internal boundaries of Iraq (ff 17-18) (ff 20-25); a map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (f 28);
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (195 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 5320 (Mesopotamia Negotiations) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/666-667. The volumes are divided into two parts, with each part comprising one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 197; 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 3-195; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:27v, 29r:111v, 113r:120r, 121r:133v, 134ar:134av, 134r:139v, 140ar, 140r:145v, 149r:154v, 155ar, 155r:196v, back-i
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