‘Persian Gulf. Certain annoyances to which the British Agent at Shargah has been subjected – brought to the notice of Government.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Certain annoyances to which the British Agent at Shargah has been subjected – brought to the notice of Government.’
- Date:
- 1853/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the fourteenth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf; Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājjī Ya‘qūb], Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Sheikh Sultan ben Suggur, Chief of Rusul Khymah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah]; and Lieutenant Henry Haughton James, commanding the Company’s brigantine Tigris.The item concerns the complaints of Hajee Yacoob about the ill-treatment he has received at the hands of Abdool Rahman Boo Busheit [‘Abd al-Raḥmān Būshuʿayṭ?], and other followers of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd], also referred to as the Wahabee [Wahhābī] Chief. Sheikh Sultan ben Suggur declined to intervene on Hajee Yacoob’s behalf, and instead sent complaints to Kemball about Hajee Yacoob’s behaviour. Kemball sends Commodore Robinson to Shargah to demand the punishment of the offenders, and to investigate the accusations made against Hajee Yacoob. The item includes the depositions of four witnesses (ff 627-628).The item contains a table of contents (f 599), and the title page (f 598) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 109 of 1853. Vol. 14’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘2’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 598 and terminates at f 633, 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:
- Allegations
- Geographic region:
- Shargah
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108905506.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108905506.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2550/149210
IOR/F/4/2550/149210