'Précis of correspondence regarding Trucial Chiefs, 1854-1905'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Précis of correspondence regarding Trucial Chiefs, 1854-1905'
- Date:
- 1906/1906
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume is a précis on the rulers and tribes of the Trucial Coast (now the United Arab Emirates). It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and printed in Calcutta [Kolkata] at the Government of India Central Printing Office, 1906.The volume begins (folio 4) with a short preface, written by Saldanha on 29 January 1906. It is then organised into fourteen chapters and an appendix, as follows: Chapter I, Dynastic changes among the Trucial chiefs; Chapter II, Payment of fines direct to the sufferers; Chapter III, Report about Arab tribes, 1854; Chapter IV, Report about Arab tribes, 1855; Chapter V, Inter-tribal wars, 1854-1873; Chapter VI, Piracies in 1854-1855; Chapter VII, Piracies and other maritime irregularities, 1859-1861; Chapter VIII, Specimens of complaints from the Arab littoral, 1866; Chapter IX, The Shihiyin tribe: operations against them: their position, 1855-1859; Chapter X, Telegraph and tribes at Mussendom [Musandam]: jurisdiction and sovereignty over the peninsula, 1864; Chapter XI, Question of jurisdiction over the coast from Dibba to Khar Kalba and the territory about Ras Mussendom; Chapter XII, Internal affairs; Chapter XIII, British relations with the Trucial chiefs, 1873-1905; Chapter XIV, Persian relations with the Arab chiefs on the Pirate Coast: distinctive Trucial flag, 1899-1905; Appendix, Genealogical tables of the Trucial chiefs.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Piracy
Tribes - Geographic region:
- Trucial Coast
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000884.0x0001d3_ar
81055/vdc_100000000884.0x0001d3_en
IOR/L/PS/20/C248D
IOR/L/PS/20/C248D