Author
Ibn Saud of any form of unity between Iraq and Kuwait
Publication Date
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng,fra
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
154
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/5/127
Record ID
vdc_100000000831.0x00004a
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
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The correspondence also contains reports about members of Al-Naqib family from Basra who were appointed as envoys from Baghdad with instructions to offer official advice to the Ruler of Kuwait. A particular name that appears in the volume is Sayid Hamid Bey Al-Naqib, Basra Deputy to the Ruler of Kuwait.
The correspondence also discusses the following: the refusal by Ibn Saud of any form of unity between Iraq and Kuwait, the issue of encouraging Persian immigration to Kuwait, and the petitions raised by members of the Legislative Council in Kuwait, 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, to assist in releasing political prisoners in Kuwait.
The correspondence also contains letters and newspaper extracts regarding Khalid Sulaiman al-‘Adsani, Secretary of the dissolved Legislative Council in Kuwait, and about the Arab Youth movement called al-Ansar, which calls for Arab unity. Most of the correspondence in the volume (ff 2-136) is dated 1939.
The main correspondence is between the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Kuwait, 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.
, Bushire, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London, and the British Embassy, Jeddah.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Second Series subject files: 2/1 II
