‘Persian Gulf. Precis of intelligence from Shiraz Vol: 7’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Precis of intelligence from Shiraz Vol: 7’
- Date:
- 1849/1849
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The main correspondents are: Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; Joseph Malcolm, a Persian [Iranian] merchant; and Prince Bahram Meerza [Bahrām Mīrzā Moʿezz-al-Dawlah], the Governor of Fars Province. It is the seventh in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.This item concerns:A dispute at Bushire [Bushehr] over Joseph Malcolm’s importation of sugar, on which the Persian authorities demanded that he pay the British rate of import duty, despite his status as a Persian merchant under British protection and not a British subject (see also IOR/F/4/2349/123823)A dispute between Hajee Abdool Mahomed [Ḥājī ‘Abd al-Muḥammad] and Shaik Houssein Nasir [Shaikh Ḥusayn Nāṣir Khān Āl Mazkūr], the uncle of Sheik Nasir [Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr] the Governor of Bushire, which led to Hajee Abdool Mahomed being forced to leave the city.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 6 of No 95’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 187, and terminates at f 235 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:
- Customs duty
Governor of Bushire
Prince-Governor of Fārs - Geographic region:
- Bushire
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098180563.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098180563.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2349/123814
IOR/F/4/2349/123814