‘Muscat – Slave Trade – Two Indians rescued from slavery’

Title:

‘Muscat – Slave Trade – Two Indians rescued from slavery’

Date:

1842/1843

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the fourth in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 90000, 90001, and 90002). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Rubik bin Uslan [Khwāji Rūbin bin Aṣlān], Native Agent at Muscat.The item concerns:Hoossein Bushkh bin Cutwa Coombhar [Ḥusayn Bakhsh bin Katu’ā Kumhār], a boy from Lucknow, who was sold into slavery in Muscat and subsequently emancipated and sent to Bombay [Mumbai] by Rubik bin UslanAn Indian woman who was sold at Muscat but released from slavery by Rubik bin Uslan.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 215, and terminates at f 233, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave trade
Abduction

Geographic region:

Muscat

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000659.0x000019_ar
81055/vdc_100000000659.0x000019_en
IOR/F/4/2014/89999
IOR/F/4/2014/89999

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