‘Persian Gulf. Affairs of.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Affairs of.’
- Date:
- 1846/1846
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the twenty-seventh in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Hussein [Mullā Ḥusayn], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; and Commodore John Croft Hawkins, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The death of Shaik Suggur bin Sultan [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Sultān al-Qāsimī], following an attack on Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn], and the request of Shaik Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī] for Hennell to mediate between the different tribesThe arrival of Commodore Hawkins at Shargah, and the brokering of a truce between Shaik Sultan bin Suggur and the rulers of Debaie [Dubai], Ejmaun [Ajman], and Amulgavine. It includes a copy of the truce, concluded on 19 April 1846.The item contains a table of contents (f 528), and the title page (f 527) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 27’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 75’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 527 and terminates at f 538, 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 item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Mediation
Tribal relations
Ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah - Geographic region:
- Trucial Coast
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098592006.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098592006.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2174/105572
IOR/F/4/2174/105572