Author
Major-General P. J. Maitland
Publication Date
1904 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng,fra
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
596
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/L/PS/10/66
Record ID
vdc_100000000365.0x000397
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
1904 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
This file contains correspondence and documents related to the work of the Aden Boundary Commission, the British Government body tasked with the delineation of the borders of the British Protectorate of Aden. Much of the correspondence in the file relates specifically to the Subaihi border region.
The file contains a number of letters from Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, the Commissioner of the Aden Boundary Commission, sent to the Political and Secret Department of 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.
in London (and the British 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.
in Aden). The file also contains extracts from Wahab's diary related to his work on the commission.
The file contains a detailed report on the demarcation of the frontier entitled: 'Report on the Demarcation of the Frontier between the Tribes in the Protectorate of Aden and the Turkish Province of Yemen; by Major-General P. J. Maitland, C.B.,
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
at Aden' (folios 25-44).
The file contains a number of maps as follows:
a printed map of the Sheikh Sa'id Peninsula (folio 94);
a printed map of the border region of the British protectorate of Aden (folio 112);
a printed map entitled 'Map of Haushabi and Subaihi Border' with list of place names in English and Arabic (folio 237);
a printed map of the Sheikh Sa'id Peninsula (folio 239);
a hand-drawn entitled 'Map Illustrating Southern Subaihi Frontier Proposals Referred to in Sir N O'Conor's Telegram No. 112' (folio 288);
a printed sketch-map entitled 'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 19 of 15th March 1904' (folio 291);
a printed sketch entitled 'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 21 of 15th March 1904' (folio 456);
a printed map entitled 'Aden Frontier Survey, Subaihi Boundary in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ma'din' (folio 457).
The file also contains correspondence related to French claims of ownership over Sheikh Said (Cheikh Said), a peninsula near the island of Perim on the Mandeb Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea. The file contains original copies of articles on this topic that were printed in the French newspaper
La Dépêche Coloniale
in September and October 1904
.
The majority of the correspondence in the file is in English, but also enclosed is a limited amount of correspondence from the Ottoman Ambassador in London that is in French.
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The Subject 37 (Aden) contains 5 files, IOR/L/PS/10/63-67.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
P 37/1905 Pt 4
Gruplandırıldığı Yer
Printed Map of the Shekh [Shaikh] Sa'id Peninsula
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 94
Printed Map of Border Region of the British Protectorate of Aden
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 112
'Map of Haushabi and Subaihi Border'
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 237
Printed Map of Shekh [Shaikh] Sa'id Peninsula
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 239
'Map illustrating Southern Subaihi Frontier Proposals Referred to in Sir N O'Conor's Telegram no. 112, July 1 1904'
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 288
Printed Map of Border Region of the British Protectorate of Aden
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 290
'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 19 of 15th March 1904'
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 291
'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 21 of 15th March 1904'
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 456
'Aden Frontier Survey, Subaihi Boundary in Wadi Ma'din'
2 images
Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/66, f 457
