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center"><div class="multiimageinner" style="width:222px;max-width:222px;border:none"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:133px;max-width:133px"><div style="height:62px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg/131px-Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg" decoding="async" width="131" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg/197px-Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg/262px-Jemen1988-022_hg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3833" data-file-height="1835" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:85px;max-width:85px"><div style="height:62px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sultan_Al_Kathiri_Palace,_Seiyun_(2286710698).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" 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title="Qataban">Kingdom of Qatabān</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minaeans" title="Minaeans">Kingdom of Ma'in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Himyarite Kingdom">Kingdom of Ḥimyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Yemen" title="Sasanian Yemen">Sasanian rule</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#FFE4B5;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_history_of_Yemen" title="Islamic history of Yemen">Islamic history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziyadid_dynasty" title="Ziyadid dynasty">Ziyadid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Najahid_dynasty" title="Najahid dynasty">Najahid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulayhid_dynasty" title="Sulayhid dynasty">Sulayhid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zurayids" class="mw-redirect" title="Zurayids">Zurayids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahdids" title="Mahdids">Mahdid state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rasulid_dynasty" title="Rasulid dynasty">Rasulid dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahirids_(Yemen)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tahirids (Yemen)">Tahirid state</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#FFE4B5;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Yemen" title="Modern history of Yemen">Modern 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Under that new status, the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_India" title="Governor-General of India">Viceroy of India</a> assumed direct control over Aden, which had hitherto been administered by the government of the <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Presidency" title="Bombay Presidency">Bombay Presidency</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Aden_Protectorate" title="Aden Protectorate">Aden Protectorate</a> remained unaffected by this change. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For nearly a century following the <a href="/wiki/Aden_Expedition" title="Aden Expedition">capture of the port of Aden</a> by forces of the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> in 1839, the town and immediate surrounding area under direct British rule, known as the Aden Settlement, had been a dependency of the distant <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Presidency" title="Bombay Presidency">Bombay Presidency</a>. The Settlement's indeterminate position at the southwestern end of the Arabian peninsula was bound to cause difficulties and historian R. J. Gavin points out that "Aden’s whole history since 1839 had been marked by administrative confusion and complication."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before taking action, the chief British official at Aden, the Resident, was often required to obtain sanction from three different authorities, the Bombay Government, the <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">government of British India</a> (headed by the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_India" title="Governor-General of India">Viceroy</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a> in London.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aden,in_1864.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Aden%2Cin_1864.png/220px-Aden%2Cin_1864.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Aden%2Cin_1864.png 1.5x" data-file-width="225" data-file-height="192" /></a><figcaption>A photograph of the harbour of Aden, photographed in 1864.</figcaption></figure> <p>Matters came to a head during World War I and in 1917, the Government of India, recognising its inability to provide sufficient forces to defend Aden against invading <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Turkish</a> forces, transferred military control of the Settlement to the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a> and control of the <a href="/wiki/Aden_Protectorate" title="Aden Protectorate">Aden Protectorate</a> affairs to the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office">Foreign Office</a>. The transfer was incomplete since India retained control of affairs within the Settlement itself, something which was increasingly seen in London as an anachronism given that Aden so obviously belonged to the Middle East and the Arab world. Things dragged on however and for the next two decades the administration of Aden witnessed incessant bureaucratic wrangling between the Bombay Presidency, the Government of India, the <a href="/wiki/India_Office" title="India Office">India Office</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a> and the War Office, "which broke through from time to time in the columns of newspapers and on to the floor of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> and the representative assemblies in India."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The chief disagreement was over the division of costs between India and London, in particular regarding the sizeable defence costs of Aden<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another important roadblock to the full transfer of Aden to London was the unpopularity of the Colonial Office among the well-established and powerful Indian commercial community of Aden, which was aware of the discrimination in administration against Indians in <a href="/wiki/East_Africa_Protectorate" title="East Africa Protectorate">British East Africa</a> and feared the same would happen to them if Aden was placed under the control of the Colonial Office.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Creation_of_the_Chief_Commissioner's_Province"><span id="Creation_of_the_Chief_Commissioner.27s_Province"></span>Creation of the Chief Commissioner's Province</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Creation of the Chief Commissioner's Province"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Aden_1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Aden_1922.jpg/220px-British_Aden_1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Aden_1922.jpg/330px-British_Aden_1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Aden_1922.jpg/440px-British_Aden_1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>The territory of British Aden on a 1922 map.</figcaption></figure> <p>The issue gained urgency at the end of the 1920s when discussions on constitutional reforms in India began. Far-away Aden with its Arab majority could not be accommodated in a new federal India where a considerably empowered Bombay legislative assembly would remain in charge. Therefore, it was decided that, until the final status of Aden was decided, Bombay would yield its administrative control over the territory which would become a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct control of the Viceroy. This status, which took effect on 1 April 1932, was expected to be short-lived, and one provision of the <i><a href="/wiki/Government_of_India_Act_1935" title="Government of India Act 1935">Government of India Act 1935</a></i>, stated that "Aden shall cease to be a part of British India". In accordance with the Aden Colony Order, 1936, Aden became a <a href="/wiki/Crown_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Colony">Crown Colony</a> under the full responsibility of the Colonial Office effective 1 April 1937. At the time, the British government had made it clear that it was unwilling to share control of such a vital imperial base or anything pertaining to it with an independent Indian administration.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, to mollify the Indian community which still opposed the transfer, links with India were not totally severed. While the District and Sessions Court of Aden became the Supreme Court of the new Colony, appeals could be made to the High Court of Judicature in Bombay in civil cases involving property and some civil rights cases, as well as in criminal cases.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Indian rupee maintained its official currency status. </p><p>Sir <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Rawdon_Reilly" title="Bernard Rawdon Reilly">Bernard Rawdon Reilly</a>, who had been named Resident in 1931, then Chief Commissioner in 1932, became the first Governor of <a href="/wiki/Aden_Colony" title="Aden Colony">Aden Colony</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composition_of_the_population_of_Aden_in_1933">Composition of the population of Aden in 1933</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Composition of the population of Aden in 1933"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Ethnicity </th> <th scope="col">Population<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Arabs </td> <td>29,820 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Indians </td> <td>7,287 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jews </td> <td>4,120 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Somalis </td> <td>3,935 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Europeans </td> <td>1,145 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Miscellaneous </td> <td>331 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_Commissioners">Chief Commissioners</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Chief Commissioners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>For previous British ruling officers see <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_representatives_at_Aden" class="mw-redirect" title="List of British representatives at Aden">List of British representatives at Aden</a></i> </p> <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Rawdon_Reilly" title="Bernard Rawdon Reilly">Bernard Rawdon Reilly</a>, first as resident in 1931, then as Chief Commissioner.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Views_of_Aden">Views of Aden</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Views of Aden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aden_crescent_1931.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Aden_crescent_1931.jpg/220px-Aden_crescent_1931.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Aden_crescent_1931.jpg/330px-Aden_crescent_1931.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Aden_crescent_1931.jpg/440px-Aden_crescent_1931.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1070" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption>The Aden crescent in 1931.</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aden._Esplanade_Road,_Crater,_late_1930s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg/220px-Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg/330px-Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg/440px-Aden._Esplanade_Road%2C_Crater%2C_late_1930s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1404" data-file-height="805" /></a><figcaption>Esplanade Road in the late 1930s.</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG/220px-Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG/330px-Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG/440px-Aden_Lahej_Meeting.JPG 2x" data-file-width="713" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Rawdon_Reilly" title="Bernard Rawdon Reilly">Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly</a> (front row 3d from left), the chief British official of Aden, at a meeting in <a href="/wiki/Lahej" class="mw-redirect" title="Lahej">Lahej</a>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1928–1930</span>.</figcaption></figure> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Aden" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Aden">Postage stamps and postal history of Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aden_Protectorate" title="Aden Protectorate">Aden Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trucial_Oman" class="mw-redirect" title="Trucial Oman">Trucial Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_British_Empire" title="Territorial evolution of the British Empire">Territorial evolution of the British Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baloch_Regiment" title="Baloch Regiment">Baloch Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Moresby" title="Robert Moresby">Robert Moresby</a> (Survey of the Red Sea)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aden_Province&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">R. J. Gavin, <i>Aden Under British Rule, 1839-1967</i>, Barnes and Noble, 1975, p. 254.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert R. Robbins, "The Legal Status of Aden Colony, and the Aden Protectorate", <i>The American Journal of International Law</i>, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct., 1939), p. 702.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gavin, p. 252.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gavin, p. 253.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gavin, p. 253–255.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gavin, p. 256.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Glen Balfour-Paul, <i>The End of Empire in the Middle East. Britain's relinquishment of power in her last three dependencies</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1991, (1996 paperback edition), p. 58–59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robbins, p. 702.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Figures given by Chief Commissioner Reilly (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x000015"><i>Aden, Administration and Control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG (1933-34)</i></a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/aden/sirbernardreilly.htm">Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly - The British 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