‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the embarrassment caused by the grant of a passport to a Hindoo Buneea by the Commissioner in Sind.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the embarrassment caused by the grant of a passport to a Hindoo Buneea by the Commissioner in Sind.’
- 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 sixteenth 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; and Hajee Jasseem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns the granting of a passport to a Banyan [Bania, also rendered as Buneaa in the item] called Dhurmoo [Dharmū, also rendered as Durmoo in the item], the consequences that this had in Bahrein, and the question of whether such passports should be issued in future.The item contains a table of contents (f 656), and the title page (f 655) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 109 of 1853. Vol. 16’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘5’ 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 655 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 item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Banyan merchants
Passports - Geographic region:
- Bahrein
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108905548.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108905548.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2550/149212
IOR/F/4/2550/149212