Political Correspondence - Muscat and Oman Affairs

Title:

Political Correspondence - Muscat and Oman Affairs

Date:

1861/1871

Description:

Abstract: This file contains letters on a variety of administrative and political matters in Oman. This includes correspondence relating to the appointment of Political Agents in Muscat, the Omani state's finances, and a descriptive account of Muscat by Mr Apothecary Gaspar de Rozario, and a Muscat trade report from 1867-April 1868. The file also includes printed and written reports relating to the suppression of Wahhabi pirates from 1865-66; printed copy correspondence relating to Bahrain from 1847-58; printed copy of correspondence relating to slave trade; 1866 resolution of the Ottoman Porte relative to the abolition and prevention of the slave trade; 1866-74 report on piracy in the Persian Gulf by Captain Samuel Hennell, Assistant Resident in the Gulf; 1830 printed copy correspondence relating to the electric telegraph, 1861; a schematic chart of the coast of Persia, and printed copies of correspondence relating to Kalat 1861-71.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 185; 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 present in parallel between ff 105-170; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Trade (practice)
Reports
Slave trade

Geographic region:

Oman

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00021c_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00021c_en
IOR/R/15/6/4
IOR/R/15/6/4

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