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Notes to Chapter Six

on in Sharjah at the time, which were alleged to be the responsibility of
some fidawis of the Ruler. This petition is similar to one written by 9
Banians and Hyderabadis in Sharjah on 12 February, see ibid. pp. 220ff.
39 See letter no. 33 from the Residency Agent to the Political Resident,
dated 19 January 1927 in IOR R/15/1/279 “Attempted Murder of
Residency Agent, Sharjah. II, 1926-29", p. 213ff and enclosed trans­
lation of a letter by Sultan bin Saqr.
40 Because of the decline of the pearling industry and the Second World
War such problems were put off and only became acute again when
substantial numbers of people from other Muslim and some non-
Muslim countries came to work in the Trucial States. The question of
jurisdiction over these immigrants was therefore only tackled in the
1950s. See below, pages 314ff.
41 This development is described in greater detail in Chapter Seven.
42 In the days of Zayid the Great a Rumaithi was appointed to the salifah al
ghous; he was followed by Yusuf bin Ahmad, assisted by Muhammad
bin 'Abdulghani al Khamlri, who held the post for twenty years; the last
one was Khalfan bin Matar bin Jubarah. See also UK Memorial I,
p. 67.
43 He, like many other local pearl merchants during the 1930s, was no
longer able to dispose of the pearls for cash at the end of the season, but
had to give them to an Indian merchant on credit and had to wail until
that person had sold the pearls in Bombay. See letter no. 1109 from the
Political Resident in Bushire to the Foreign Secretary in Simla, dated 29
May 1931. explaining this case, in IOR R/15/1/293, p. 40ff.
44 ibid. Saif bin 'Abdullah himself did not remain headman of Hamriyah
for long because 'Abdul Rahman bin Saif’s son Humaid, who had been a
roaming outcast since he had himself attempted to overthrow his father
in 1922 and had later lived in Dubai, obtained the leadership in
Hamriyah some months later.
45 See letter no. 221 from the Residency Agent to the Political Resident,
dated 9 June 1927 in IOR, R/15/1/276 pp. 130ff.
46 See translation of a letter of 12 April 1924 from the bin Lutah to the
Residency Agent in IOR, R/15/1/268 pp. 75ff, in which they complain
bitterly about the Ruler of 'Ajman, his greed and ill treatment of them as
British subjects.
47 See letter no. 147 from the Residency Agent to Political Resident, dated
25 April 1924, ibid p. 72f.
48 See IOR, R/15/1/236 “Arab States Monthly Summary 1929-1931", July
1929.
49 ibid. March 1930.
50 ibid. September 1930.
51 ibid. November 1930.
extract from the Summary of News from the Arab States for the
52 See
446