Abstract: Imprint:Published under the direction of Major-General H.L. Thuillier, C.S.I.-F.R.S., Surveyor General of India, Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta. December 1877. Photozincographed under the Superintendence of Capt.n. J. Waterhouse.Edition statement:‘Compiled from the most authentic materials available in the Office of the Surveyor General of India, Calcuta, May 1876. With Corrections to November 1877’.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by shading. Boundaries coloured for reference with a key at the bottom left. Routes of various expeditions shown with names of explorers and dates of their journeys given. Notations on topographic features inserted on the map. Shows Telegraph Cable laid in 1864, Indus Valley State Railway, and Sind Punjab and Delhi Railway lines. Includes ‘List of Authorities Consulted in the Compilation of this map’.Inscriptions:In the lower centre above imprint, black faded ink: ‘A.A. 28-10’.Physical description: Dimensions:779 x 1050 mm, on sheet 860 x 1108 mm
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1867-68.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-34), consisting of Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails‘REVENUE’ (ff 35-42), consisting of Land and Sayer Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Customs, Salt, and Opium‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 43-52), consisting of Finance; Mint; Paper Currency‘POLITICAL’ (ff 53-60), consisting of Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Kohlapoor [Kolhapur]; Southern Maratha Country; Sawunt Waree; Junjeera [Janjira]; Sind [Sindh] Frontier; Muscat‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 61-88), consisting of military; civil buildings; miscellaneous public improvements‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 89-101), consisting of Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara] and Central India Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla; Indus Valley Survey‘MILITARY’ (ff 102-106)‘MARINE’ (ff 107)‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT’ (ff 108-115)‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 116-126)‘MEDICAL’ (ff 127-128)‘SURVEYS’ (ff 129-132), consisting of revenue survey; topographical survey, Sind‘FORESTS’ (ff 133-134)‘MILLS’ f 135-137)‘MUNICIPAL, BOMBAY’ (ff 138-139)‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 140-144)‘COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 145-146)‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 147).Physical description: 1 item (145 folios)
Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1870-71.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘CHAPTER I. JUDICIAL’ (ff 269-302), consisting of Section: I. Legislative; II. Civil Justice; III. Criminal Justice; IV. Police; V. Prisons; VI. Registration‘CHAPTER II. REVENUE’ (ff 303-318), consisting of Section: I. Land Revenue; II. Local Funds; III. Revenue from sources other than land; IV. [Alienated Revenue]‘CHAPTER III. FINANCIAL’ (ff 319-327), consisting of Section: I. Finance and Mint; II. Paper Currency‘CHAPTER IV. POLITICAL’ (ff 328-366), consisting of Section: I. Political Relations with Native States; II. Foreign Relations‘CHAPTER V. PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 367-371), consisting of Section: I. Military; II. Civil; III. Agricultural; IV. Communications; V. Miscellaneous Public Improvements‘CHAPTER VI. RAILWAY’ (ff 372-376), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway; Sind; Indus Steam Flotilla‘CHAPTER VII. ECCLESIASTICAL’ (f 377)‘CHAPTER VIII. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 378-383)‘CHAPTER IX. MEDICAL’ (ff 384-390), consisting of Section: I. Public Health and Sanitation; II. Hospitals and Dispensaries; III. Vaccination‘CHAPTER X. MILITARY’ (ff 391-396)‘CHAPTER XI. MUNICIPAL’ (ff 397-399), consisting of Section: I. Town and Island of Bombay; II. Mofussil Municipalities‘CHAPTER XII. SURVEYS’ (ff 400-405), consisting of: the Revenue Survey Department; Bombay‘CHAPTER XIII. FORESTS’ (ff 406-408)‘CHAPTER XIV. COTTON’ (ff 409-413)‘CHAPTER XV. THE POST’ (ff 414-416)‘CHAPTER XVI. THE TELEGRAPH’ (ff 417-419), consisting of: Indo-European Telegraph Department – Mekran [Makran] Coast and Submarine Section‘CHAPTER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 420-421).There is an Introductory Summary to the report on folios 263-268. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 262. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Folios 425-507 consist of appendices. There is an index to the appendices on folios 423-424, listing the appendices under the following headings and sub-headings:‘II. – STATISTICS OF PROTECTION’ (ff 425v-480v), consisting of: A. – Civil Justice; B. – Criminal; C. – Police‘III. – STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 481-484r), consisting of: A. – Public Works; B. – Railways; C. –Paper Currency‘IV. – STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION’ (ff 484v-488)‘V. – STATISTICS OF LIFE’, consisting of: A. – Public Health; B. – Vaccination (ff 489-491r)‘VI. – MISCELLAENOUS’ (ff 491v-507), consisting of: Municipalities; Cotton; Local Funds; Indo-European Telegraph.(Under the heading ‘I. – STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL GEOGRAPHY’, it is stated that that ‘None are available’).Physical description: 1 item (248 folios)
Abstract: The memorandum is concerned with Persian Baluchistan, specifically focusing on Mekran [Makran] and Sarhad, which are regarded as being of particular geopolitical interest to Britain's Indian Empire. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. It also outlines proposals put forward by the Government of India in 1917 for reorganising the administration of Persian Baluchistan, with a view to protecting Britain's Indian Frontier and telegraph lines through Persia. This includes an explanation of objections put forward by the Foreign Office to these proposals.The rest of the memorandum is dedicated to the Quetta-Nushki railway extension to Duzdap [Zāhedān]; it is considering a proposal for the destruction of this extension. To this end, it includes a short history of its construction, examines the economic and political advantages of the line, and considers the possibility of a further extension of the line into Seistan [Sīstān].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 17; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Imprint:Trel. Saunders, India Office. Lithographed from tracings entitled: ‘Beluchistan, comprising Mekran and the Perso-Beluch Boundary’.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by shading.Coloured for reference with boundary indicated by pecked line and tinted pink. Routes shown in red and Indo-European Telegraph by a black thin line. Includes explanation to symbols.Physical description: Dimensions:570 x 692 mm, on sheet 646 x 765 mm
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Boundary indicated by pecked line and tinted pink; unexplored areas labelled. Routes of various expeditions shown in colour with names of explorers and dates of their journeys given. Numerous notations on topographic features inserted on the map. Includes three longitudinal sections, a descriptive note on sources used in compilation of map and a key to colours.Physical description: Dimensions:914 x 1249 mm, on sheet 1008 x 1360 mm
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Undated. Produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened.Proposed telegraph stations shown in red, proposed telegraph line between Karachi (Kurachee) and Gwadar (Guadur) shown in green. Proposed telegraph line between Gwadar (Guadur) and Bandar Abbas (Bunder Abbas) shown by pecked line with explanation: ‘probable, but country not investigated’.Inscriptions:On recto:Below title: ‘Showing the site proposed by Major Goldsmith for the intended Line of Telegraph and Stations; and the extent of Territory ruled by each Chieftain’.In the bottom right-hand corner: /Signed/ H. Ryland; ‘Copied by Nourrojee Penslonjee’ and illegible signature.On verso, top left-hand corner: ‘Referred to in Bombay Political Letter 24th April [illegible] 32, 1862’.Physical description: Materials:Pen and ink on tracing clothDimensions:537 x 880 mm, on sheet 592 x 921 mm
Abstract: Imprint:Published by James Horsburgh Hydrographer to the Hon. E.I. Compy. Augt. 1st 1832. Additions 1857. Febr. 1863. Additions & Corrections at the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, Oct. 1862. Engraved by Rd. Bateman 85 Long Acre.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Depths shown by soundings.Includes a sketch map of the Muscat area inserted in hand in pen and black ink, below map in the bottom left-hand corner of sheet.Inscriptions:Place names added in pencil.Labels:Oval stamp in blue ink: ‘COVT. OF INDIA STM. SHIP. AMBERWITCH’.Physical description: Dimensions:380 x 990 mm
Abstract: This file is comprised of copies of a series of agreements, engagements, and conventions concerning Britain and a number of related parties regarding the construction and/or extension of telegraph lines in Turkey, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran [Makran Coast] between 1853 and 1916. Related parties include the Chiefs of the Arabian coast (referred to as 'the Chiefs of the Pirates Coast'), Persia, Turkey, and Russia.In addition, there are copies of two concessions granted to the Indo-European Telegraph Company, from 1868 and 1869 respectively (a renewal of the 1868 concession, made in 1882, is also included).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 21, and terminates at f 38, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: This volume is a summary of events, treaties and correspondence about the suppression of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, curated by Jerome Anthony Saldanha, and printed in Simla in June 1906.The volume is marked as secret and divided into chapters:Measures for the suppression of slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, up to 1873 (ff 5-7);Measures against traffic in slaves by Natives of India (ff 8-16);General measures taken for the suppression of Slave Trade from 1874 to 1905 (ff 16v-22);Anti-Slave Trade Operations (ff 22v-30);Runaway slaves at Gwadur (ff 31-34);Trade in Baluchi slaves from Mekran to the Arab coast (ff 34-35);Reception of fugitive slaves on board Her Majesty's ships of war and other British vessels (ff 35v-38);Grant of protection to fugitive slaves on the Coast (ff 39-40);Some questions of practice of courts (ff 41-45);Miscellaneous questions and facts (ff 45v-48.In Appendix,
Reports on Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf,
1852-1859(folios 59-61).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.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence related to individual cases of the enslavement and trade of Baluchis from the Makran coast and Karachi, to the Trucial and Oman Coast, and in particular to Dubai. The correspondence is predominantly between Government representatives in Karachi/Sind, the Persian Gulf Political Resident at Bushire (of which there were three incumbents during the period covered), and the native Residency Agent at Sharjah, ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif. The cases discussed touch upon British attempts to identify and recover Baluchis reportedly taken and transported to the Trucial Coast, repatriation measures, the terms of punishment for traders/kidnappers, and the expenses incurred at offering protection for recovered slaves.Of particular interest in the file are reports on the slave trade between Baluchistan and the Gulf, 1923/24 (folios 98-114); correspondence between the native agent at Sharjah and the Trucial Coast shaikhs on slave trade (e.g. folios 361-362); and the Hindu community of Dubai’s efforts to take action against the trade of Hindu boys from Karachi (folio 364).Physical description: Foliation: The volume is foliated with circled pencil numbers from the front cover to the last folio, in the top-right corner of each recto. An earlier foliation system uses uncircled pencil numbers, also in the top-right corner of each recto.Condition: There is some insect damage on the front cover and a small number of folios, but not sufficient to impair legibility.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence between various British Government officials in the Persian Gulf, who were responding to a perceived increase in the trade of slaves across the Gulf of Oman, from the Baluchistan coast to the Batinah and Trucial coasts on the Arabian Peninsula. A significant proportion of the volume is intelligence on maritime slave trading activities on the Baluchistan coast. This intelligence was collected by local Baluchis reporting to the Assistant Superintendent of the telegraph office at Jask (Mr Navarra), who telegraphed reports of the activity of dhows suspected of carrying slaves to the Arab coast to the Political Residency, then under the charge of Major Arthur Trevor. In the case of those boats suspected to be headed to the Trucial Coast, the Political Resident requested the Residency Agent at Sharjah [‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif] to use the intelligence to retrieve the slaves once they have arrived on the Trucial Coast. When there was evidence of either direct or indirect involvement on the part of one of the Trucial Coast shaikhs in slave trading, the Political Resident wrote directly to the shaikh concerned, warning him of the consequences of his actions (for example, folio 86). Conversely, when a shaikh had taken action in the rescue of a slave, he received praise from the Political Resident (folio 137).A report from Captain Brandon, Commanding Officer of HMS
Cyclamen, which was patrolling the Baluchistan coast in order to deter slave traders, wrote that a well-known slave trader on the Makran coast was in receipt of a small annual subsidy from the British Government to protect the telegraph line in the area (folios 176-77). This suggestion was contested by Mr Navarra (folios 206-08), though he conceded that others involved in the slave trade on the Makran coast, who have seen their slaves intercepted by British authorities, had threatened to cut British telegraph cables in retaliation. Mr Navarra also suggested that the trade in slaves from Baluchistan to the Arabian Coast, besides being a result of the continued drought and famine in the Baluchistan region, had been recently encouraged by an increase in the trade of rifles from Arabia to Baluchistan, one being used to pay for the other.Physical description: Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover with circled numbers in the top-right corner of each recto. There is an earlier foliation system using uncircled numbers that runs through the volume. The earlier foliation system is referenced by annotations in the correspondence that refer to earlier correspondence existing in the volume.