'Persian Gulf, Arabian Coast, affairs of, Commodore Hawkins return, despatch of the Elphinstone to the'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Persian Gulf, Arabian Coast, affairs of, Commodore Hawkins return, despatch of the Elphinstone to the'
- Date:
- 1846/1846
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the thirty-seventh in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssin [Mullā Ḥusayn], Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Shaik Mukhtoom bin Butye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah], Chief of Debaye [Dubai]; and Captain Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy.The item concerns the hostile relations existing among the rulers of the tribes of the Arabian coast of the Gulf, with Shaik Sooltan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], the Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] Chief and Shaik Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] forming an alliance against the rulers of Debaye [Dubai], Ejman [Ajman] and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn]. Hennell reports that hostilities, so far, have not spread to the sea, and the Government of Bombay considers what might be done to ease tensions.The item contains a table of contents (ff 640-641), and the title page (f 639) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 37’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 6 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 639 and terminates at f 660, 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 file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Tribal relations
- Geographic region:
- Trucial Coast
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098592104.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098592104.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2174/105582
IOR/F/4/2174/105582