‘Sind Slave Trade Relative to the traffic in the- between India and the Persian Gulf.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Sind Slave Trade Relative to the traffic in the- between India and the Persian Gulf.’
- Date:
- 1854/1855
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of two Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 16 April 1855 and 28 August 1855. The enclosures are dated 4 March 1854-3 March 1855.The item relates to actions taken by the Government of Bombay and Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Company Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat, in light of reports by Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], of enslaved Indian people being exported to ports in the Persian Gulf. The item includes Hamerton's report on his conversation on the subject with the Imaum of Muscat, following Frere's discovery of enslaved Indian children in the port of Guader [Gwadar].The correspondents are Hamerton, the Government of Bombay, and the Court of Directors.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No.3 in 2 Volumes', 'Vol: 1', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '8 of No. 30 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 542, and terminates at f 549, 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:
- Slave trade
Imam of Oman - Geographic region:
- Persian Gulf
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100109043147.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100109043147.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2614/164849
IOR/F/4/2614/164849