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1. ‘Kidnapping children. Regarding the traffic carried on between the Nizam’s Territory and the Coast of Arabia Vol: 2’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; James Stuart Fraser, Resident at Hyderabad; and W Harrison, Registrar of the Bombay Sudder Foujdaree Adawlut [Sadr Faujdari Adalat, criminal court]. It is the second in a series of six items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2066/94846, IOR/F/4/2066/94848, IOR/F/4/2066/94849, IOR/F/4/2066/94850, and IOR/F/4/2066/94851).The item concerns:The efforts of the British to persuade the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id] to introduce additional measures to prohibit the trade in enslaved people in his dominions, with correspondence between the representatives of the Imaum and the Earl of AberdeenThe extent of the trade in kidnapped children carried out between the territory of the Nizam of Hyderabad [Mir Farkhunda ‘Ali Khan] and MuscatStatistics showing the number of people prosecuted for kidnapping children since 1827 and their sentences.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 73, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4548, [Season 18]44’, ‘Collection No 1 of No 4’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 339 and terminates at f 382, 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.
2. ‘Muscat. Rescue by His Highness the Imaum of an Indian female named “Jafran” from slavery. Vol: 7’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; James Stuart Fraser, British Resident at Hyderabad; Soorajool Moolk Bahadoor [Sirāj al-Mulk Bahādur], Prime Minster of Hyderabad; Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. It is the seventh in a series of seventeen items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2112/99462, IOR/F/4/2112/99463, IOR/F/4/2112/99464, IOR/F/4/2112/99465, IOR/F/4/2112/99466, IOR/F/4/2112/99467, IOR/F/4/2112/99469, IOR/F/4/2112/99470, IOR/F/4/2112/99471, IOR/F/4/2112/99472, IOR/F/4/2112/99473, IOR/F/4/2112/99474, IOR/F/4/2112/99475, IOR/F/4/2112/99476, IOR/F/4/2112/99477, and IOR/F/4/2112/99478).The item concerns the rescue of an Indian woman named Jafran from slavery in Zanzibar by the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], her arrival in Bombay, and a discussion of her future.Further detail about Jafran appears in IOR/F/4/2087/96925.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 872/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5013, Collection No 4 of No 77’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 166, and terminates at f 172, 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.
3. PZ 4200/33 Complaints Regarding Destitute Iraqis in Hyderabad
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding destitute Iraqi citizens in Hyderabad, India, and costs incurred by the Government of Hyderabad in helping them reach the Iraqi Consulate in Bombay [Mumbai] in order to be repatriated back to Iraq.The file includes requests from the Government of Hyderabad to the Governmentof Iraq for reimbursement of their costs, and to the Government of India for tighter restrictions on visas granted to Iraqi citizens. The primary correspondents are: Superintendent, Hyderabad Railway Police; Resident, Hyderabad; Government of India, Foreign and Political Department; British Embassy, Baghdad.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 37, and terminates at f 57, 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
4. Copy of a Letter from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, to the Secret Committee
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- Abstract: A dispatch from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, at Fort St George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 3 September 1799, regarding: the dispatch of an embassy to the court of Baba Khan [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], King [Shah] of Persia [Iran]; the Treaty of Mysoor [Mysore or Mysuru]; an additional regiment of cavalry being raised in accordance with the Treaty of Hyderabad; and the extent to which the military establishments [military staff] of Fort St George and Bombay [Mumbai] should be increased.There is a postscript dated 5 September 1799 concerning the news received from Syria of the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army at St Jean D’Acre [Akko].The letter was received via the ship Earl Howe, 30 August 1800.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)