Author
an agent.
in Kuwait
Publication Date
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
183
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/5/183
Record ID
vdc_100000000831.0x0000aa
Library Location
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.
Date
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
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.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
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