Abstract: Typescript memorandum (marked 'Book Copy' in the top left corner of the first page) giving information about the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman under the following headings: Territory, Historical, Physical Features, Climate, Population, Products and Trade, Religion, and Government (folios 150-154); and about Sultan Saiyid Taimur Bin Faisal bin Turki [Taymūr bin Fayṣal], including comments on his appearance, habits, religious practices, political principles, sons, health, pastimes, and wealth (folios 154-155).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at f 150 and terminates at f 154, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1861. The letters are dated 1 January 1861-29 December 1861. The abstracts are numbered 183-301 and each have one of the following titles:Abstract of Letters Received from IndiaAbstract of Military Letters Received from IndiaAbstract of Secret Letters Received from IndiaAbstract of Letters Received from Zanzibar.Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence included in the volume concerns events in British India, Oman, Aden and the coast of East Africa, including:Revenue and expenditureThe retirements, dismissals and appointments of military and civil personnelTaxation and duties, including income and land taxes, and duties on salt, sugar, opium and saltpetreThe reduction of the Indian NavyCommunications, such as postal services and telegraph linesTransport and public works, including railways, canals and river navigation, irrigation, ports, roads and steam shippingThe foreign relations of the Government of India, including with Nepal, Bhotan [Bhutan], Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and SikkimFrench activity on the coast of East Africa, including rumours of ‘aggressive designs’, alleged involvement in the trade in enslaved people at Zanzibar and the Comoro Isles [the Comoros Islands], and the alleged murder of a French consular agent at AdenThe production of crops, particularly cottonMilitary affairs, including the recruitment and disbandment of military units, organisation and supply, military reform, the reduction of military expenditure, the distribution of prize money, and the amalgamation of the army and formation of a Staff CorpsThe pay and pensions of civil and military personnel in IndiaThe planned telegraph line linking England and India, including the construction of the line through the territory of Turkey and Persia [Iran]Disputes over the cultivation of indigo between ‘ryots’ and landlords in Bengal, including the publication of a subversive play concerning the disputesLegal affairs, including the appointment of judges to small cause courts and plans for the establishment of High Courts in IndiaThe trade in enslaved people at Zanzibar and on the coast of East AfricaThe British ‘expedition’ against Sikkim and the resulting treaty between Britain and Sikkim [Treaty of Tumlong]The machinery of the Government of India, including proposals for the establishment of Legislative Councils, and the composition of the Executive Council of the Governor-GeneralThe affairs of the Princely States and other local rulers and dignitaries, particularly concerning pensions and finances, including the affairs of the former regent of the Sikh Empire, Maharanee Chunda Kower [Maharani Jind Kaur]Famine in ‘Upper India’ and the response of the Government of IndiaAffairs in the Persian Gulf, including: the British having compelled the Sheikh of Bahrein [Hakim of Bahrain, Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] to withdraw his blockade of the ‘Wahabee [Wahhābī] coast’; British arbitration in the sovereignty dispute between the Ruler of Muscat, Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and the Ruler of Zanzibar, Syud Majid [Sayyid Mājid bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; and the conduct of the Political Agent, Muscat, Lieutenant William Pengelly, in a dispute between Syud Thooenee and Syud Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd].The primary correspondents are:The Government of India (Ecclesiastical, Educational, Electric Telegraph, Financial, Foreign, Home, Judicial, Legislative, Marine, Military, Political, Postal, Post Office, Public, Public Works, Railway, Revenue, and Separate Revenue Departments)The Governor-General of IndiaThe Political Agent, Zanzibar.The abstracts were printed and bound in London, and each one includes the following colophon: ‘LONDON: Printed by GEORGE E. EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.’Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 323; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains multiple original pagination sequences.
Abstract: Chart 38.Hydrographic chart covering a 570-mile route through the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea from Maskat [Masqat], Oman, east-north-eastwards to Karachi, British India [Pakistan]. The sheet also depicts a 170-mile length of Omani coast in the vicinity of Maskat and a 630-mile length of coast between Cape Jashak, Persia [Damagheh-ye Jask, Iran] eastwards to Karachi.Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings and contours, sands, mud, rocks and anchorages, relief by spot heights and hachures, vegetation, settlements, public buildings, telegraph offices and place names, and includes topographical notes and navigational aids, including buoys, lights and prominent buildings.Includes insets of Jashak Bay [Khalij-e Jask], Persia, at scale 1:121,000; Chahbar Bay [Khalij-e Chah Bahar], Persia, at scale 1:96,800; Gwatar Bay [Dahaneh-ye Gowatar], Persia and British India, at scale 1:96,800; and Gwadar Bay, [Gwadar Bay (West and East), British India, at scale 1:96,800.Ten annotated sketches of significant navigational views, at unspecified scales, on both the north and south coasts of the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea are also included.Chart compiled from the surveys of captains George Barnes Brucks, Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Thomas Grere Carless, Albany Moore Grieve, Charles Golding Constable, Arthur Whatley Chitty and Arthur William Stiffe, all late Indian Navy. Engraved by Edward Weller. Published at the Admiralty, 1874.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 668 x 1043mm, on sheet 688 x 1049mm
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-third in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item contains substances of seven letters, dated between 17 August and 26 September 1847, from Heskeal bin Yusoof [Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat, to the Government of Bombay. The letters contain news from Muscat and numerous places in the surrounding region. In particular, they relate to:Attacks by Suif bin Hamood bin Uzan [Sayf bin Hamūd bin ‘Azzan] and his relatives on Sohar [Suhar], Khaboora [Al Khaburah], and Rustak [Rustaq]Conflicts between the people of Nukhil [Nakhal] and the Budoos [Bedouins], including details of supporting tribes and populations on each sideConflict at Huye Assein [Hayy ‘Asim?] and Sumael [Sama’il]Interventions of Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat, in the above affairsArrival of numerous ships at MuscatLoans demanded from ‘Banian’ merchants at Sohar.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 53’, ‘Collection No. 9 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 577, and terminates at f 590, 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.
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/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Heskiel bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat. It is the thirty-second in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a violent dispute between Shaik Suif bin Amir [Shaikh Syf bin Amīr] and Shaik Suif bin Suleman [Shaikh Syf bin Sulaymān] in which Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Governor of Muscat] intervened.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 11 of No 169’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 579, and terminates at f 583, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat.The item contains intelligence reports sent by Heskeal bin Yusoof. Topics covered include:The communications of Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] with Jubur bin Mahomed bin Nasir [Jabr bin Muḥammad bin Nāṣir], the Chief of Zukee [Izki], and the visit of the shaikhs of the Hijreeyan [al-Ḥijrīyūn], Hooboos [al-Ḥubūs] and al Wubela [Āl Wahībah] tribes to MuscatReports that Syud Hamood bin Uzan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān al-Būsa‘īdī] has placed the forts at Rustak [Rustaq] and Khabooru [Al Khaburah] under the charge of the Mootavas [Muṭawwa‘īn] and plans to do the same for other forts to the west of Sohar, and Syud Thooenee’s attempts to arrange a meeting with Syud Humood bin UzanCommunications received from Captain Saunders at Museera [Masirah]The threats received by Shaikh Suif bin Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Ma‘walī], Chief of Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbas] from the Governor of Shiraz, and the support provided to Shaikh Suif bin Nubhan by Syud Thooenee.The item contains a table of contents (ff 443-444), and the title page (f 442) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 20’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 8 of No. 53’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 442 and terminates at f 451, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. The political letter, of which this item is an enclosure, can be found in IOR/F/4/2121/100024.The item concerns a request by the Government of India for a report on the history of Britain’s relations with the states on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf, and contains a report on the Imam of Muscat and the territories belonging to him, produced by Captain Hamerton, and related correspondence.The item contains a table of contents (f 331), and the title page (f 330) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5061, Coll. 5, Vol. 3’, ‘D/t 29/46’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 18’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 330 and terminates at f 339, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
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 forty-third in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat.The item contains reports sent by Heskeal bin Yusoof regarding affairs at Muscat. Topics covered include:The movements and activities of Syed Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of MuscatReports of internal conflicts in Oman, including around Budia [Bidiyyah], and at SoharThe visits to Muscat of various notable personsThe return to Muscat of the merchant Shaik Yusoof bin Suggur [Shaikh Yūsuf bin Ṣaqr], who was attacked while he was in Bushire [Bushehr]Reports of a ship from Muscat having grounded and another having been destroyed by fire.The item contains a table of contents (ff 695-696), and the title page (f 694) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 43’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 12 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 694 and terminates at f 702, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the fifteenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The item contains three letters sent by Heskeil bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting British Agent at Muscat, to the Persian [Iranian] Secretary to the Government of Bombay, containing news from Muscat and Oman. Topics covered include:The visit of Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the Governor of Muscat, to Saib [Seeb], Burka [Barka], and Nukhil [Nakhal]The arrival of various ships at Muscat.The item contains a table of contents (f 602), and the title page (f 601) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 15’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 601 and terminates at f 604, 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.
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-4 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 31 December 1844. The enclosures are dated 11 July-2 December 1844.The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to: the stated intention of the Imam of Muscat and Oman [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to leave Zanzibar to his son Saud Khalid [Khālid bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and Oman to his son Saud Thuwanee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and to disinherit his eldest son Saud Hillāl [Hilāl bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; and reports that ships from the Imam’s dominions are regularly selling enslaved persons at a market in Quillimaine [Quelimane], Mozambique.The primary correspondent is the Native Agent, Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (12 folios)
Abstract: Appendix containing précis of the treaties and engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf. It is broken down into the following sections:Koweit [Kuwait];Bahrein [Bahrain];El-Katr [Qatar];Trucial Coast;Oman (Muscat);treaties with other Powers;summary – listing points common to the engagements;communication of treaties – to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in 1927, and to the Persian Government.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 68, and terminates at f 70, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: This volume is a summary of events and information about Muscat and Dhofar [Oman] affairs, compiled by J A Saldanha, and printed in Simla in March 1906.The volume is marked as secret and divided into two parts: Part I 1892-98, mainly on the 1894-95 rebellion at Muscat, and the British proposal to create a Protectorate in reaction to it, and on the 1895-97 rebellion at Dhofar; and Part II 1899-1905 regarding French and British influences over the Sultan of Muscat, sanitary matters, and establishments and buildings belonging to the British Agency at Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.