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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [315r] (317/840)
The record is made up of 1 item (421 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1925-14 Dec 1926. 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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Minute Paper
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The Government of
India speak of the
”indignation and
distress in India" :
there is a good deal
of evidence in Jeddah
reports for May and
June (P.2244 and P.2587)
that these emotions
were exhibited by
pilgrims, but by others
as well as Indians,
before they left the
Hejaz: and no doubt
they have by now stirrec.
many who did not make
the pilgrimage this
year.
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Department.
The first sentence of this telegram can
be dealt with comparatively easily; a letter 6 L*' Co
reiterating our view that it would do no harm and
might do good to include a restrictive clause about
the Gulf sheikhdoms in the draft treaty to be laid
before Ibn Saud y would perhaps most conveniently
be submitted on another file.
The last sentence of the telegram is quite
satisfactory.
The remainder presents difficulty, and
instructions in regard to it are requested.
The Government of Indian view is quite
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intelligible that, if Indian Moslems who have performed
the Haj this year have come back feeling sore
against Wahabi restrictions of the forms of worship
in which they desired to indulge, their resentment,
at present directed against Ibn Saud ; will be
diverted against His Majesty’s Government if His
Majesty’s Government immediately afterwards
concludes a treaty of friendship with their
oppressor. But it does not seem by any means to
follow that even Indian Moslems would be pleased if
the treaty contained a clause which, however
the Government of India gloss it over, cannot fail
to connote interference by a non-Moslem Power
in matters affecting the Moslem faith.
The Government of India wish to secure
freedom of religious observance for Indian Moslems.
•In a political treaty between His Majesty’s
Government and Ibn Saud it is only for Indian (or,
at widest, British) Moslems that any concession
can
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The papers cover the recognition of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] as King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies by foreign countries, and also contain:
- Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, KBE, CB, CMG, on his Mission to negotiate certain Agreements with the Sultan of Nejd, and Instruction issued to him in regard to his Mission , 1926 (ff 516-560)
- Negotiations for revision of the 1916 Treaty with Ibn Saud
- A conference held at the Colonial Office to discuss HM Government's relations with Ibn Saud, 1926
- Relations between Ibn Saud and Persia
- Agreement with the Sultan of Nejd regarding certain questions relating to the Nejd-Trans-Jordan and Nejd-Iraq frontiers , 1925 (ff 395-402)
- The Hejaz- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan border.
The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 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. , the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, HM Consul at Jeddah, and the Viceroy.
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- File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.'
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