Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia [Iran]. It is the twenty-sixth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns:The proposal by the Governor of Fars, Hoossein Khan [Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khān Muqaddam Marāgha'i] to co-ordinate the movements of the naval squadron in the Persian Gulf with his projected tour by land to different ports on the Persian CoastMessrs Mills & Co’s request for assistance in recovering money owed to them by Bakir Khan [Bāqir Khān Tangistānī], Sheik of Tungistan [Tangistan]A possible rebellion by the chiefs of the Dashtistan [Dashtestan] against the authority of ShirazThe restriction of movement placed upon a Russian Armenian by Hoossein Khan.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 18 of No 54’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 771, and terminates at f 781 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 comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 154 of 1846, dated 31 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 14 September-21 November 1846.The enclosures concern events following the recent murder of Shaik Saadoon [Shaikh Sa‘dūn, also spelled Sadoon in this item], Governor of the Districts of Roodhilla [Dehrud-e Olya], also spelled Rodhilla in this item], by two of his relatives with assistance from members of the Beni Hajir [Banū Hājir] tribe, including: the consequent fierce conflict between the Beni Hajirs and the forces of Bakir Khan, Chief of Tungistoon [Bāqir Khān Tangistani] who was connected with Shaik Saadoon; the fear of Sheik Nasir [Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr], Governor of Bushire [Bushehr], and the inhabitants of that town, of being attacked and plundered by the neighbouring tribes of Tungistan [Tangestan]; and the general ‘disturbed state of the district in the vicinity of Bushire’.The principal correspondent is Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: 1 file (10 folios)