Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 9 June 1855. The enclosures are dated 15 February 1853-1 May 1855.The item relates to reports of 'Banians' [also rendered in text as Banyans and Banneeans] and other people from ports on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, living in Zanzibar [also rendered in text as Zanzebar] and engaging in the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] between the dominions of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat and the Indian subcontinent. This is relayed to the Government of Bombay by Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Company Agent in the dominions of the Imaum, between 1853 and 1855. Hamerton's correspondence includes details of how the trade is conducted and his suggestions for suppressing it. Copies of his correspondence are forwarded to Captain Raikes, Assistant Political Agent at Kutch [Kachchh], and Lieutenant-Colonel William Lang, Political Agent in Katteewar [Kathiawar, also rendered in text as Kattywar], requesting them to report on whether subjects from those places are involved in the trade. Copies are also sent to British officials throughout India and the governments of India and Madras [Chennai, also referred to as Fort St George] for information.The item also contains responses from Captain John Turnley Barr, Acting Political Agent at Katteewar, and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Willoughby Trevelyan, Acting Political Agent in Kutch. Trevelyan's letter includes copy of a translated letter from the Rao of Kutch.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No. 3', 'Vol: 2', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '7 of No. 52 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 550, and terminates at f 573, 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.
Abstract: Document providing a history of lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf.Covering:first reconstruction: 1909-14 – assessment, programme of reconstruction; obstructive activities of the Turkish authorities, detail of buoys and lighthouses placed, and parts of the programme not completed;expansion: 1914-25 – including extensions to the original programme, and an overhaul of beacons;administration and finance – including light dues, responsibility for the cost of the service, the Government of India's role in administration and maintenance, and the creation of a Lighting and Buoying Fund;relations with Persia – listing occasions during the British management of the Lighting and Buoying Service when His Majesty's Government came into collision with the Persian Government;conclusions.It also includes an appendix listing lights, buoys, and beacons present at the time of writing (1928).Written by M J Clauson of the India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 49, and terminates at f 51, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909.The first report is entitled
Statistics regarding the Masqat [Muscat] Arms Traffic (Revised.)(ff 4-16), and contains several appendices and fold-out tables giving details of: caravan routes along which arms trafficking is carried out on the Makran coast; total values of arms and ammunition imported into Muscat and other Persian Gulf ports; importers and (European) exports of arms.The second report is entitled
Special Reports on the Masqat Arms Traffic, Season 1908-09(ff 17-60), and comprises a number of reports on the arms trade through Muscat, submitted by ‘secret agents’, and a map illustrating the arms traffic from Muscat to Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59). The report also includes two appendices, lettered G and H. Appendix G is a letter (in French) dated 28 October 1907, from M Pick to Messieurs Malcom and Company of Muscate [Muscat]. Appendix H comprises lists (in French) of arms for sale, with prices given in French francs.The voluime includes a map illustrating the Muscat arms traffic, dated 1909, indicating routes taken by the Muscat arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 62; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: this part also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Memorandum communicated by the Air Ministry on 23 August 1928 concerning air communication in the Persian Gulf.Covering:an introduction to the development of the Persian and Arabian air routes;flights on the air route along the Persian shore from 1918 onwards;the association of the Government of India with the route - consisting of extracts from a memorandum by the Indian Air Board (an Advisory Committee to the Government of India) in 1926 entitled 'The Past History and Future Development of Civil Aviation in India';the attitude of Persia towards the use of the route by a regular Civil Air Service operated by Imperial Airways Limited;the air route along the Arabian shore described by section, and detailing the attitude of the shaikhs.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 77, and terminates at f 79, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file consists of notes and appendices providing a history of the arms trade up to 1908, prepared by C M Gibbon of the Persian Section of the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, Government of India.A preface is included by Wilfrid Malleson, Division of Chief of General Staff, India.It discusses: the monetary value of the arms trade, attempts to stop the import of arms into Persia, reported trade routes, import and export figures, the types of rifles and ammunition imported, and firms connected with arms traffic.The appendices include the following:an outline of the scheme inaugurated by Mr New of the Indo-European Telegraph Department for the prevention of illicit arms trade on the Makran Coast;lists of arms caravans known to have made their way from the Makran Coast into Afghan territory;a precis of the action taken by the Persian Government to prohibit arms caravans through South-East Persia;statistics for the value of arms and ammunition openly imported in the Masqat [Muscat] and Persian Gulf ports, monthly exports from the United Kingdom, imports into Masqat by foreign vessels, distribution from Masqat to Persian and Arabian Coasts, and the proportion of various forms of rifles and ammunition imported monthly;a statement of the departures for and arrivals at Masqat of vessels carrying arms and ammunition, and European firms connected with Masqat arms traffic.Also includes one map on folio 17: 'PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE ROUTES TAKEN BY ARMS CARAVANS BETWEEN THE MAKRAN COAST and the AFGHAN BORDER'Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 18; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1861-62.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:'JUDICIAL' (ff 89-95), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Small Cause Court; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails'REVENUE' (ff 96-103), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenues; Income Tax; Stamps; Customs, Salt, and Opium'FINANCIAL' (ff 104-105)'POLITICAL' (ff 106-113), consisting of: Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Sawunt Waree [Sawantwadi]; Southern Muratha Country; Khandesh; The Dangs [Dang]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Surat Agency; Kutch [Kachchh]; Aden; Muscat and Zanzibar; Persian Gulf; Sind [Sindh]PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT' (ff 114-123), consisting of administration reports on the following areas: A 1.- Fortifications; A 3.- Accommodation for troops; A 4.- Ordnances; A 5.- Commissariat; A 7.- Staff; B. Naval; C 5.- Post Office; D 1.- Government houses and residencies; D 4.- Charitable Institutions; D 6.- Miscellaneous; E.- Churches and other buildings; G 3.- Jails; H 5.- Water supply; I 1.- Harbours and Navigation; I 2.- Light houses and beacons; K 1.- Irrigation canals; K 2.- Tanks; K 3.- Dykes; L 1.- Metalled Roads; L 2.- Unmetalled Roads; L 3.- Bridges; L 4.- Boat bridges and ferries; L 7.- Accommodation for travellers'PUBLIC WORKS - RAILWAY' (ff 124-130), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla Company'MILITARY DEPARTMENT' (f 131)'EDUCATION' (ff 132-135)'MEDICAL DEPARTMENT' (ff 136-138)'CONSERVANCY' (ff 139-140)'SURVEY' (f 141), consisting of: Revenue; Topographical Survey'FORESTS' (f 142), consisting of: Bombay Presidency; Sind'MISCELLANEOUS' (ff 143-144), consisting of: Stationery; Agriculture; Emigration.The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the 'JUDICIAL', 'REVENUE', 'FINANCIAL', 'POLITICAL', 'PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT', 'PUBLIC WORKS - RAILWAY', 'MILITARY', 'CONSERVANCY', and 'SURVEY' sections of the report (ff 145-269)A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 88. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Physical description: 1 item (185 folios)
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1862-63.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-15), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails‘FINANCE AND REVENUE’ (ff 16-25), consisting of: Finance; The Mint; Revenue; Cash Alienations; Land Alienations; Sayer (Income Tax, Stamps, &c.); Customs; Imports; Import Revenue; Export Revenue; Frontier Duties; General Trade; Opium; Salt Excise; Financial and Commercial Legislation‘POLITICAL’ (ff 26-35), consisting of: Sattara [Satara]; Kolhapore [Kolhapur]; The Southern Maratha Country; Cutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Aden; Savanoor [Savanur]; Surat; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Edur [Idar]; Cambay [Khambhat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Sind [Sindh]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Junjeera [Janjira]‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Sattara; Bombay [Mumbai] Harbour Defences; Belgaum and Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Poona [Pune] Districts; The Civil Architect; Dharwar [Dharwad]; Ahmedabad and Kaira [Kheda]; Northern Concan [Konkan]; Mhow; Poona Cantonment; Kirkee [Khadki] Cantonment; Nassick [Nashik] Districts; Agra Road, Beaora [Biaora] Division; The Garrison and Dockyard Engineer, Bombay; Agra Road, Mhow Division; Sholapore [Solapur]; Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar]; Surat and Broach [Bharuch]‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 40-43), consisting of: Railway Operations; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla‘MILITARY DEPARTMENT’ (f 44), consisting of: Military Department; Marine Department‘EDUCATION’ (ff 45-46)‘THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 47)‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (ff 48-50), consisting of: Bombay; Revenue Survey‘FORESTS’ (f 51)‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 52).The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the ‘JUDICIAL’ section of the report. Appendices A and B (f 53) contain lists of Acts passed, respectively, by the Government of India and the Government of Bombay. Appendix C (ff 53-64) contains a list of bills under consideration by the Government of Bombay. Appendix D (ff 65-146) consists of a detailed report on jails by the Inspector-General of Prisons. Appendix D is dated 29 August 1863 and contains an inserted sheet of corrections (f 66) dated 27 July 1865. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Physical description: 1 item (144 folios)
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1865-66.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 7-30), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Court of Small Causes; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails‘REVENUE’ (ff 31-42), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Income Tax; Customs, Salt and Opium‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 43-50), consisting of: Finance; Mint; Paper Currency‘POLITICAL’ (ff 51-58), consisting of: Political; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewankanta [Rewa Kanthar]; Khadeish; Surat; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Persian Gulf‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 59-117), consisting of: Military Army; Ordance; Commissariat; Military Finance Offices; Civil Buildings; Public Improvements‘PUBLIC WORKS – RAILWAY’ (ff 118-134) consisting of: GIP [Great Indian Peninsular] Railway; BB and CI [Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian] Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Valley Survey; Indus Steam Flotilla‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-161)‘PENSIONERS’ COLONY AT CHALLISGAUM [Chalisgaon]’ (f 162)‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 163-251). This section gives details on the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Musandam telegraph station. This section also has appendices: A (letter from Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid, Director in Chief of Indo-European Telegraph, and a report by Major Smith on the Island of Angaum [Hengam]); B (a report by Colonel Goldsmid of his journey through Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and Asia Minor [Turkey]); C (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid and reports by himself, Major Smith of the Royal Engineers, and Mr Johnstone, British Agent at Busrah [Basra], of the journey from Ispahan [Isfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] to survey the land for connecting the Persian [Iranian] and Mekran Coast land lines of the telegraph); and D (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid with enclosure proposing an alternative land line from Gwadur to join the main Persian line between Bushire [Bushehr] and Tehran).‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 252-258)‘MEDICAL’ (ff 259-260)‘SURVEYS’ (ff 261-265), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey‘FORESTS’ (ff 266-268)‘EMIGRATION’ (f 269)‘MILLS’ (ff 270-272)‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 273-275)‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 276-277)‘COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 278-279)‘POPULATION, SIND’ (f 280)‘AGRICULTURE, SIND’ (f 281).A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. There are two maps relating to surveys of the Indo-European Telegraph line.Physical description: 1 item (278 folios)
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1869-70.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-51), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; Agent for Sirdars; Court of Small Causes, Bombay; Mofussil Courts of Small Causes; Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts; Police – Town and Island of Bombay; Regulation Districts; Jails; House of Correction, Bombay; Sind [Sindh]; Aden‘REVENUE’ (ff 52-60), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Customs, Salt and Opium‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 61-68), consisting of: Finance and Mint; Paper Currency‘POLITICAL’ (ff 69-89), consisting of: Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [Kachchh]; Baroda [Vadodara]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Khandeish [Khandesh]; Kolhapoor [Kolhapur]; Southern Mahratta [Maratha] Country; Akulkote [Akkalkot?]; Sawunt Warree [Savantvadi or Sawantwadi]; Junjeera [Janjira?]; ‘FOREIGN RELATIONS’ - Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Muscat; Persian Gulf; Bahrein [Bahrain]‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 90-123), consisting of: Military – Fortifications, Cantonments; Accommodation for Troops; Ordnance; Commissariat; Staff; Naval; Civil Buildings – Revenue; Post Office; Telegraph; General; Ecclesiastical; Educational; Judicial; Agricultural; Communications – Roads, Bridges; River Improvements; Accommodation for Travellers; Miscellaneous Public Improvements – Municipal, Harbour Improvements, Lighthouses; Statement of Imperial Expenditure incurred in Public Works‘PUBLIC WORKS - RAILWAY’ (ff 124-134), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-138)‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (f 139)‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 140-154), consisting of: Electrician’s Report; Traffic Manager’s Report. Appendices to this section are included on folios 148v-154‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 155-170)‘MEDICAL’(ff 171-172)‘VACCINATION’ (f 173)‘SURVEYS’ (ff 174-176), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey‘REGISTRATION’ (ff 177-179), including: Joint Stock Companies‘FORESTS’ (ff 180-186)‘COTTON’ (ff 187-194). Appendices to this section are included on folios 192-94‘MILLS’ (ff 195-96)‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 197-256), consisting of: Bombay; Aden; Northern Division; Southern Division; Sind‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 257)‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 258-259), consisting of: Khandeish Model Farm; Emigration; Agricultural Improvements; Local Funds; Hill Station of Toongar; Pensioners’ Colony; Ahmedabad Horse Show.A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Physical description: 1 item (257 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Samuel Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Court of Directors of the East India Company.The item concerns a request from the Bombay Government to Her Majesty’s Government to grant the Resident in the Persian Gulf consular powers, the need for which is demonstrated by the case of Josiah Row Chowdry [Josiah Rao Chaudhari]. A fuller explanation of the case of Chowdry, who was owed wages by a ship’s master, can be found in IOR/F/4/2077/95833 and IOR/F/4/2077/95834.The title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft 180 of 1845’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 4 and terminates at f 13, 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.
Abstract: A map indicating the locations of four buoys and one stone beacon in Bahrein Harbour in the Persian Gulf. The buoys and beacon are marked in manuscript with corresponding arrows drawn in the right margin.The base map on which the buoys are indicated is Admiralty chart 20, 'Published at the Admiralty 15th. Augt. 1862', 'Small corrections... II-1906.'.A hand stamp on the verso reads, 'British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Received 19 Aug. 1908'.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paper with manuscript additions in coloured inkDimensions: 670 x 485mm, on sheet 700 x 510mm
Abstract: A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879.The document is a summary of correspondence, government reports, and published literature relating to the Turkish expedition into El Hassa [Al Hasa] in 1871, and was compiled in light of a proposed comprehensive arrangement with the Porte about the positions of the two powers along the Gulf coast, and policing responsibilities at sea. The correspondence is from the period 1870-1874 and is principally between various British Government departments and offices connected to the region, and the Turkish Government.The Turkish expedition called into question the sovereignty and jurisdiction of much of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the coastline and islands of the Gulf. The correspondence contains discussions of these matters and reflects British fears of a loss of their monopoly over the control and security of the Gulf, and a disruption of the treaty relations they maintained with rulers in Bahrein [Bahrain], Guttur [Qatar], the Trucial Coast, Muscat, and Aden.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at folio 131 and terminates at folio 144, 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. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.Condition: folio 131 is torn along one edge, with some loss of text.