‘Persian Gulf. Regarding the trade in slaves between Western India and the Persian Gulf Vol: 4’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Regarding the trade in slaves between Western India and the Persian Gulf Vol: 4’
- Date:
- 1852/1852
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major George LeGrand Jacob, Political Agent, Kutch [Kachchh]; Henry Bartle Frere, Commissioner of Scinde [Sindh]; John Macleod, Deputy Collector of Customs, Scinde; and Barrow Helbert Ellis, Assistant Commissioner, Scinde. It is the third in a series of four volumes about the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns the replies of the Commissioner of Scinde and the Political Agent at Kutch to inquiries from the Bombay Government into whether traders from Scinde and Kutch were importing enslaved people into the Gulf.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft No 217-1853’ and ‘Collection Vol: 4 of No. 121 of 1852’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 297, and terminates at f 304, 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 item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave emancipation
Slave trade - Geographic region:
- Bombay
Bahrein - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108390714.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108390714.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2495/141332
IOR/F/4/2495/141332