‘Muscat. A Distressed Native of Meerzapoor sent to Bombay and afterwards provided with a passage to Calcutta –’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Muscat. A Distressed Native of Meerzapoor sent to Bombay and afterwards provided with a passage to Calcutta –’
- Date:
- 1846/1847
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, Agent and Consul in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat; Mr Larkin, Officiating Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and Gregor Grant, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay.The item concerns a fifteen-year-old boy, originally from Meerzapoor [Mirzapur] who was left on the island of Pemba and then sent to Zanzibar. From there, Hamerton sent him to Bombay, and he was afterwards conveyed to his family in Calcutta [Kolkata].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 3 of No 7’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 4, and terminates at f 11, 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:
- Transport
- Geographic region:
- India
Zanzibar - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098571680.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098571680.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2203/108111
IOR/F/4/2203/108111