Muscat Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Muscat Affairs
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1850, dated 31 October 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-22 and are dated 10 April-30 October 1850.The papers relate to affairs in the vicinity of Muscat including:The implementation of measures (including an Act of Parliament of 1 August 1849) to enforce agreements between HM Government and the Imam of Muscat and the Arabian rulers in the Persian Gulf for the effective suppression of the trade in enslaved peopleReports from the Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah] and the Native Agent Muscat on the trade in enslaved people, including that undertaken by the dependants of Sheikh Sultan bin Suggar [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī].The primary correspondents are the following: the Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], the Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; the Advocate General, Bombay; the Governor of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (35 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave trade
- Geographic region:
- Muscat
Sharjah - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100152132085.0x000006_ar
81055/vdc_100152132085.0x000006_en
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 78-112
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 78-112