‘Persian Gulf. Affairs. Vol: 21’

Title:

‘Persian Gulf. Affairs. Vol: 21’

Date:

1849/1850

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 correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Bahram Meerza [Bahrām Mīrzā Mo‘ezz-al-Dawlah], Prince-Governor of Fars Province. It is the twenty-first in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The rebellion of Tungistoon [Tungistan] against Shaik Nasir of Bushire [[Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr of Bushehr]Bahram Meerza’s decision to remove Shaik Nasir from office and make Meerza Mehdy Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī Khān] the new Governor of BushireMeerza Mehdy Khan’s advance, accompanied by Bakir Khan [Bāqir Khān Tangistānī], Chief of Tungistoon, to Bushire, and his unsuccessful siege of the townThe arrival of a boat belonging to the Governor of Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] at Rasul Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah], carrying enslaved women from Africa, in direct contravention of the firman issued by the previous Shah [Muḥammad Shāh Qājār].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 1 of No 1’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 383, and terminates at f 404 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:

Slave trade
Civil unrest
Governor of Bushire

Geographic region:

Tungistoon
Bushire

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098181149.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098181149.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2349/123828
IOR/F/4/2349/123828

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