‘Persian Gulf- Payment of the Amount required from the Chief of Aseeloo, of a loan forced by his people from a British subject-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf- Payment of the Amount required from the Chief of Aseeloo, of a loan forced by his people from a British subject-’
- Date:
- 1847/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-fifth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to a letter, dated 8 November 1847, from Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Government of Bombay. Hennell confirms that the loan forcibly taken from a British subject by the Chief of Asseeloo [Shaikh of Bandar-e ‘Asaluyeh] has been repaid and therefore the boat detained as security for this payment has been returned to the owner, Ab-dool Nubbee [‘Abd al-Nabī]. An act of ‘piracy’ committed by the people of Khirrah [Kherreh] on a bugla belonging to the Company’s associate, Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājjī Ya‘qūb], is also briefly mentioned.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 55’, ‘Collection No. 11 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 595, and terminates at f 599, 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:
- Loans
- Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005248.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005248.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112376
IOR/F/4/2238/112376