Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia
- Date:
- 1868/1868
- Description:
- Abstract: Six memoranda pertaining to British handling of relations between Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia. The authors are all connected to the India Office, in London, mostly members of the Council of India. Some seem to be written independently, others in response to earlier memoranda. All documents cover some or all of the following matters:The $40,000 annual subsidy that Muscat receives from Zanzibar;The murder of Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Sa‘īd, Sultan of Muscat, by his son, Sālim bin Thuwaynī Āl Sa‘īd, who subsequently made himself Sultan;The East African slave trade;Persia's ambitions for a naval presence in the Persian Gulf;Measures to police the Gulf;The lease of Bandar Abbas from Persia by Muscat;How the region should be administered: to what authority - Foreign Office or Government of India - are the various offices responsible to.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at f 18, and terminates at f 46, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present between ff 18-46; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and won't be found in the same position as the main sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Colonial administration
Zanzibar subsidy
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty
Shah of Persia, Qajar dynasty
Sultan of Zanzibar - Geographic region:
- Persia
Zanzibar
Muscat - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000788.0x000385_ar
81055/vdc_100000000788.0x000385_en
IOR/L/PS/18/B2
IOR/L/PS/18/B2