Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:General view of the Resident at Bushire's Country House. Several large trees are visible in the background behind the house as well as in front of the verandah to the right of the image.Inscriptions:Upper right, in pencil alongside image: 'b', '35'Below image, in pen: 'Bushire Resident's Country House'Physical description: Dimensions:112 x 178 mmFormat:Albumen print on paperCondition:The print is in good condition with minor staining in the sky area at left and light surface dirt throughout.Foliation:‘b’ (crossed out); ‘35’Process:Albumen print
Abstract: Genre/Subject MatterThis panoramic view of the British Residency and sea-front at Bushire (Būshehr) consists of two small photographic prints pasted side by side, showing a series of buildings of uniform two-storeyed height receding into the distance along the sea-front from right to left.In the right-hand image rose bushes appear to be growing in the expanse between the sea and the buildings. Behind them a lone donkey is tethered.Although the clarity of the image is seriously compromised by fading, there appears to be a telegraph mast or flag pole along the right edge of the left-hand image, extending across to the right-hand image.Some distant figures and a boat are visible along the shoreline.InscriptionsLower right, in pencil, alongside image: ‘86’Below image: ‘Panorama of British Residency and Sea front. 23. Feb. 1902’Physical description: Dimensions:71 x 185 mm (71 x 96 mm; 71 x 89 mm) [landscape]Format:Materials:Condition:The right-hand image is heavily stained (likely originating in the printing process) with two scratch surface-losses near the left edge. and one longer scratch extending from the lower right corner.The left-hand image exhibits minor abrasion all along the left edge of the image with two small surface losses at centre in the sky area.While the left-hand image is considerably faded, the right hand image is darker due to staining.Foliation:'p. 14'; '86'Process:
Abstract: This item consists of extracts from political letters received from the Government of Bombay by the Court of Directors, containing enclosures regarding the measures taken to secure the return of East India Company property that was seized from the country ship
Hectorin the Persian Gulf by the Shaikh of Busheab [Shaikh of Nakhīlū].The enclosures, which discuss the Company's claim for restitution and negotiations for the return of the vessel, mainly consist of the following: letters received at Bombay from Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bussora [Basra]; letters from Lieutenant Charles Pasley of the Persian Mission to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government in the Secret, Political and Foreign Departments, Fort William; correspondence between Manesty and Pasley.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 58, and terminates at f 87, 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 file also contains an original pagination.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Marine Letters sent between the Government of Bombay and the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1847 and 26 May 1847.The item relates to the discovery of an error in the hydrographic charts of the Persian Gulf with regards to the position of Bushire [Bushehr]. Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, makes suggestions for rectifying the error. Oliver also suggests contacting Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, who contributed to the original chart.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Marine Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5946, Draft No. 130 of 1848’, ‘Collection N. 8’ and ‘Secretary’s Office, Marine Branch, 1847’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 116, and terminates at f 125, 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, consultations, memoranda, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political and secret letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; Reuben Aslan, the Native Agent at Muscat; Captain Atkins Hamerton, Agent at Muscat on a mission to Zanzibar; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the first in a series of two items on the trade in enslaved people (the other is IOR/F/4/1990/88113).The item concerns primarily concerns information about the mechanisms of the trade in enslaved people across the whole of the Gulf, including Persia, detailing:The routes travelledNumbers of enslaved people transportedThe nationalities of tradersThe value of the tradeThe nationalities, prices, gender ratio, ages, and treatment of the enslaved people.The item also discusses:The specific role of boats from Scinde [Sindh] exporting enslaved people from Muscat to ScindeThe possibility of persuading the Ameer of Scinde [Mir Nasir Khan Talpur] to issue a proclamation prohibiting the trade in enslaved peopleThe possibility of the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id] forbidding Joasmee [al-Qawasim] boats from visiting his African possessions to try to curb the trade in enslaved peopleThe case of the Kallah Kassaim [Qal’ah Qasim], which imported enslaved people into Muscat and changed her flag from the British flag to the Imam of Muscat’s depending on her circumstancesProposed measures to prevent export of kidnapped children from the territory of the Nizam of Hyderabad [Mir Farqunda Ali Khan]The rescue of enslaved Somali men and women from Rasul Khyma [Ra's al-Khaymah]The rescue of enslaved Indian women from MuscatReports of a delegation sent by the Imam of Muscat to London to object to the East India Company’s insistence on ending the trade in enslaved peopleExtent of the trade in kidnapped children at Hyderabad, and the enforcement of the laws concerning the tradeDepositions of those connected with the cases of alleged slavery, including the case of Hajee Mahomed [Haji Muhammed], who was found to have multiple Abyssinian children in his house.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 227, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3822A, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 4 and terminates at f 251, 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 volume is a report by Samuel Butcher, a superintendent and clerk in the Indo-European Telegraph Department, documenting the route from Rishir, a village near Bushire, to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The report describes the different cities that Butcher went through on his way to Bunder Abbas. Each description contains information on supplies, water, fuel, cultivation, grazing and camping grounds.Folio 2 of the volume contains a dedication from the author, Samuel Butcher, to George Curzon. The report was the property of Curzon.The volume contains five lithographic prints of drawings (folios 13, 16, 19, 21, and 25) and one map in a pocket at the end of the book (f 33).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates on a map with 33, 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 file also contains an original printed 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 to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the eighth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran]; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Mirza Hassan Ally Khan [Mīrzā Ḥasan ‘Alī Khān], Governor of Bushire [Bushehr]; Richard Spooner, Acting Collector of Customs, Bombay [Mumbai]; Commodore Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy; Captain John James Frushard, Master Attendant, Bombay; and Augustus Smith Le Messurier, Advocate General, Bombay.The item concerns cases of Persian vessels carrying British flags in the port of Bushire, and the disagreement between the Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Governor of Bushire regarding the protection and immunity this entitles these vessels to. This leads to a wider discussion about whether the Government of Bombay should have been granting licenses to Persian vessels allowing them to carry British flags. It includes a ‘list of vessels carrying British pass and colors trading between Bushire and Bombay’ (ff 531-532).The item also contains correspondence referring to other matters of contention between the Resident and the Governor.The item contains a table of contents (ff 511-512), and the title page (f 510) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 84 of 1853. Vol. 8’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘6’ 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 510 and terminates at f 548, 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: The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies
MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part II. The map shows the city of Bushire and environs in south-western Persia, indicating built-up areas, prominent buildings, fortified posts, roads, tracks, wells, telegraph lines, vegetation, cultivation and hydrology. Relief is shown with contours printed in light brown. A short note describes the locations of army units.The map bears a printing statement which reads 'Simla Drawing Office, No. 3424. May. 1923.'.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 725 x 415mm, on sheet 800 x 500mm
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, an extract from a Political Letter, dated 31 March 1846. The Political Letter is most likely to have been sent to the East India Company Court of Directors from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai].The item relates to a request made to the Collector of Customs by Campbell Dallas & Co, merchants at Bombay, for a licence to export gunpowder to Bagdad [Baghdad] via Bushire [Bushehr]. After receiving more details on the request, the Governor of Bombay declines on the basis that affairs in the Pachalic [Pashalik] of Bagdad are currently in an ‘unsettled state’.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; H H Glass, Collector of Customs, Bombay; and P P Campbell Dallas & Co.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5287, Draft 503/46’, ‘Coll[ection] 9’, ‘Collection N. 11 of N. 41’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 243, and terminates at f 249, 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: Genre/Subject Matter:General view of the sea-front at Bushire. A dhow with a lateen sail can be seen immediately to the right of the centre along the horizon. The highest structure along the horizon is a wind tower, which can be seen right of centre.In the foreground is a boat at anchor.Inscriptions:Upper right, in pencil alongside image: 'c', '36'Below image, in pen: 'Bushire, sea-side view.'Physical description: Dimensions:131 x 207 mmFormat:Albumen print on paperCondition:The print is in good condition with staining in the sea area at left and right lower corners and surface dirt throughout.Foliation:‘c’; ‘36’Process:Albumen print
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Government of Bombay Political Consultation, 14 April 1847.The item contains a petition from merchants at Bombay [Mumbai] to the Governor of Bombay, dated 9 March 1847. The merchants request that the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr] extend his protection to their agent, Cojah Moorad Nussim [Khwājah Murād Nasīm(?), also rendered in text as Cojah Moorad Nusein], at Bushire as the Governor of that place keeps taking money from him whilst charging full customs duty. As well as a memorandum by the Persian Secretary, the item also includes the Government of Bombay’s response.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 152/48, Collection No. 18 of No. 150’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 93, and terminates at f 96, 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, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. All the documents are from the Government of Bombay.The item briefly traces the development of the establishments in the Arabian Gulf, giving the starting points of the Residencies in Bussora [Basra], the Gulph of Persia [Arabian Gulf], and Bushire [Būshehr]. The discussion covers the merging of the Muscat Residency with Bushire, and the proposed position of Political Agent in the Gulph of Persia, to be filled by William Bruce, with Robert Taylor as the Assistant to the Agent, reflecting the change in East India Company roles in the Gulf from commercial to political. A dragoman will remain at Bagdad [Baghdad], a commanding officer at Kishm [Qeshm], and Native Agents elsewhere. The item also discusses the salaries to be paid to all the Agents and Residents, and the state of British trade with the Ottoman Empire including tariffs and duties paid.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 855, Draft 106, P.C. 200, Season 24/5, Examiner’s Office March 1824’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 74, and terminates at f 97, 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 file also contains an original pagination sequence.