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13. ‘Slave Trade. Vol: 5’
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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; the Government of India; Captain Samuel Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of six items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2066/94846, IOR/F/4/2066/94847, IOR/F/4/2066/94848, IOR/F/4/2066/94849, and IOR/F/4/2066/94851).The item concerns:Methods of eliminating the trade in kidnapped children from IndiaA discussion of the speed of the approach to take towards eliminating the trade in enslaved people, particularly as far as it concerns the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id]The difficulty of translating the Act of Parliament (10 August 1842) giving the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the same powers as those Governors and Officers of Her Majesty’s ColoniesThe applicability of the Act to Sawarrut Warree [Sawantwadi]Punishments for those who imported enslaved people into the Gulf, and the accountability of shaikhs for the actions of their subjects.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 6 of No 27’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 435, and terminates at f 477, 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.
14. ‘Muscat – Slave Trade – Two Indians rescued from slavery’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the fourth in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 90000, 90001, and 90002). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Rubik bin Uslan [Khwāji Rūbin bin Aṣlān], Native Agent at Muscat.The item concerns:Hoossein Bushkh bin Cutwa Coombhar [Ḥusayn Bakhsh bin Katu’ā Kumhār], a boy from Lucknow, who was sold into slavery in Muscat and subsequently emancipated and sent to Bombay [Mumbai] by Rubik bin UslanAn Indian woman who was sold at Muscat but released from slavery by Rubik bin Uslan.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 215, and terminates at f 233, 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.
15. ‘FILE. B/11. KIDNAPPING ON TRUCIAL COAST'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation of individual cases of the kidnapping and sale into slavery of Arab and Persian inhabitants of Ajman, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al Qiwin [Umm ul-Qaiwain]. These offences are committed mainly by Bedouins belonging to the Awamir, Manasir and other tribes, who are known to carry out attacks and raids along the coast of Trucial Oman.The main correspondents are the Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. In their correspondence they discuss the reporting and investigation of individual cases and the measures that should be taken by the Ruler of Sharjah and other Trucial Coast shaikhs, to suppress kidnapping in their territories. Included in the correspondence are several witness statements made by recovered kidnapped persons, their relatives or slave masters who seek to locate and recover them. There are also extracts from the Residency Agent’s fortnightly diaries relating such incidents and several letters received by him from the Rulers of Ajman, Ras al Khaimah and Umm ul-Qaiwain about their actions to apprehend and punish the offenders and to recover the victims by force, payment of a ransom or other agreement.Most of the Residency Agent’s reports and letter correspondence, including the witness statements recorded by him at Sharjah, are in Arabic and English.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the 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. Multiple additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 1-323; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
16. Coll 30/76 'Koweit: Abduction to Koweit of two Persian customs guards, by the crew of a Persian dhow.'
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- Abstract: The file concerns the abduction from Dilam [Bandar-e Deylam] in Persia to Koweit [Kuwait] of two Persian customs guards by the crew of a Persian dhow. The nakhoda of the dhow feared punishment after his cargo was judged to be contraband by the Persian authorities, and so fled to Kuwait, with the customs guards on board and under arrest. When in Kuwait, the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] banished the nakhoda and his boat from Kuwait in perpetuity.The papers include a statement made by the nakhoda of the dhow (folio 14) and correspondence from various British officials, including the Foreign Office, as to what attitude the British should adopt, should a complaint be made about the incident by the Persian Government.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 15; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
17. Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Luristan Affairs.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and reports from British officials in Persia [Iran]: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; the Military Attaché at Tehran, P C R Dodd; HM’s Consul for Khuzistan [Khūzestān], Arnold Edwards Watkinson. The correspondence concerns civil unrest amongst tribes in the Persian province of Luristan [Lorestān], and includes: reports of the Persian Government’s despatch of troops to quell the unrest; the kidnap, ransom and release by Luristan tribesmen of an American railway engineer; the tribal leader Yadullah Khan’s acceptance of terms offered by the Persian authorities.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 27; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
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