‘Muscat. Rescue by His Highness the Imaum of an Indian female named “Jafran” from slavery. Vol: 7’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Muscat. Rescue by His Highness the Imaum of an Indian female named “Jafran” from slavery. Vol: 7’
- Date:
- 1844/1845
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; James Stuart Fraser, British Resident at Hyderabad; Soorajool Moolk Bahadoor [Sirāj al-Mulk Bahādur], Prime Minster of Hyderabad; Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. It is the seventh in a series of seventeen items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2112/99462, IOR/F/4/2112/99463, IOR/F/4/2112/99464, IOR/F/4/2112/99465, IOR/F/4/2112/99466, IOR/F/4/2112/99467, IOR/F/4/2112/99469, IOR/F/4/2112/99470, IOR/F/4/2112/99471, IOR/F/4/2112/99472, IOR/F/4/2112/99473, IOR/F/4/2112/99474, IOR/F/4/2112/99475, IOR/F/4/2112/99476, IOR/F/4/2112/99477, and IOR/F/4/2112/99478).The item concerns the rescue of an Indian woman named Jafran from slavery in Zanzibar by the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], her arrival in Bombay, and a discussion of her future.Further detail about Jafran appears in IOR/F/4/2087/96925.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 872/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5013, Collection No 4 of No 77’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 166, and terminates at f 172, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave trade
- Geographic region:
- Hyderabad State
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098422174.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098422174.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2112/99468
IOR/F/4/2112/99468