‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
- Creator:
- Author: Government of India, Under-Secretary to the Foreign and Political Department
- Date:
- 1872/1872
- Description:
- Abstract: The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British Consul at Zanzibar, and Sir William Marcus Coghlan, relate to: the death in 1856 of the Sultan of Muscat Syed Saeed [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id] without a direct heir; the succession struggle between Syed Thoweynee [Thuwaynī bin Sa‘id al-Sa‘id] and Syed Majid [Sa‘id Majid bin Said al-Sa‘id]; British arbitration in the dispute; succession arrangements at Muscat and Zanzibar; the slave trade between Zanzibar and Muscat. The précis is organised into six chapters (labelled I to VI), as follows:I – Events preceding the arbitration by the Government of India;II – Arbitration of the Government of India;III – Proceedings subsequent to the arbitration relating to the question of subsidy;IV – Events at Zanzibar from the arbitration to the death of Syed Majid;V – Events in Zanzibar from the death of Syed Majid;VI – Slave Trade.The contents page lists four appendices (labelled A to D) that are not included in this copy of the précis.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 81, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right hand corner of the recto side of each folio. An additonal foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 6-192; these numbers are also written in pencil but, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence 1-105.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Kings and rulers--Succession
Sultan of Zanzibar - Geographic region:
- Zanzibar
Muscat - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000833.0x0001a7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000833.0x0001a7_en
IOR/L/PS/18/B150A
IOR/L/PS/18/B150A