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; Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police in Bombay; Rubeel bin Uslan [Rūbin bin Aṣlān], British Agent at Muscat; Captain Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; Henry Glass, Collector of Customs at Bombay; and Alexander Sutherland, Acting Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce at Bombay. It is the sixth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101199, IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101205, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101208, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101210, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212 and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).The item concerns:An allegation that fraud was committed by merchants in Bombay by entering goods on the cargo manifest of the
Narrayen Pursaad[
Nārayaṇa Parsād], but not transporting them on board the ship, and paying the nakhuda to pretend that he had thrown them overboard on his way to MuscatA quarrel between Seif bin Nubhan, Shaik of Bunder Abbas [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Mu‘awali, Shaikh of Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and the Governor of Shiraz, and Seif bin Nubhan’s request for help from Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171, Collection No 25 of No 109’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 616, and terminates at f 638, 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 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 main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Colonel George Dick, Colonial Secretary at Mauritius. It is the seventh in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101199, IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101204, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101208, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101210, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212 and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).The item concerns further evidence of the fraud committed by Captain Charles Fisher of the
Mary Mallabyin intentionally running his ship aground.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171, Collection No 26 of No 109’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 639, and terminates at f 654, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the eighth in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93535, 93536, 93537, 93538, 93539, 93541, 93542, and 93543). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and P W LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police in Bombay.The item concerns the wreck of the Brig
Mary Mullaby[
Mary Mallaby] and the recovery of two boxes alleged to have contained treasure which were found to contain either copper dross or black pebbles.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Coll No [Collection Number] 1, Draft 558, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4291, [Season 18]44’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 793 and terminates at f 825, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the ninth in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93535, 93536, 93537, 93538, 93539, 93540, 93542, and 93543). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Rubil bin Uslan [Rubik bin Aslan], Native Agent at Muscat.The item concerns the wreck of the Brig
Mary Mullaby[
Mary Mallaby] and the recovery of two boxes alleged to have contained treasure which were found to contain copper dross. It also concerns an alleged case of fraud connected to the gooncha [ghanja]
Narrayen Pursad[
Nārayaṇa Parsād].The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Coll No [Collection Number] 1, Draft 558, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4291, [Season 18]44’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 826 and terminates at f 847, 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: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Consultation, 28 May 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 10 June 1845. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100076, alongside details of further enclosures.The item relates to a letter written by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat, reporting that he has informed the Imam that the Government of Bombay cannot assist the Imam in his pursuit of his agent at Bombay, whom he accuses of fraud. A copy of Hamerton’s letter is sent to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 23, Vol: 10’, ‘Collection No. 9 of No. 62’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 504, and terminates at f 506, 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 file begins with an exchange of letters in 1938 between the British Legation, Tehran and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, about policy on foreign subjects seeking British assistance to recover debts owed to them by subjects of the Trucial Coast Shaikhs, in the light of an appeal to his Government by an Iranian merchant resident in Sharjah, against five subjects of the Shaikh of Sharjah. The file continues with correspondence relating to the commencement of debt recovery proceedings in 1939 by merchant Abdul Kader Mohamed Abbas of Bombay, against several subjects of Dubai and Sharjah in 1939, and also a complaint from pearl merchant Khoja Ali Bin Abdullah about a burglary and theft committed at his house in Sharjah in 1947. The file ends with a letter from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mecca to the British Embassy, Jeddah in 1949, communicating the decision of the authorities in Mukalla, Aden Protectorate [Al Mukalla, Yemen] to dismiss the compensation claim made to the Saudi Arabian Government by nakhuda (captain) Hassan bin Ibrahim, a British subject of Kuwait, for losses incurred while piloting a Saudi Arabian cargo vessel between Muscat and Aden in 1947.The Arabic content of the file consists of copies in Arabic as well as English, of two lists compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah in 1938, showing all outstanding claims by British Indian merchants against subjects of the Rulers of Dubai and Sharjah.The file does not contain correspondence relating to the last set of case notes made in the file by the Political Agent in 1950 and 1951. These notes concern the arrangements to be made at the request of the Bahrain Government, for the cash sale of two launches lying off Dubai Creek, in settlement of a claim for financial compensation by a Bahrain subject.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 51; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 1-50, and ff 5-20; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains two letters written in both Arabic and English, in July 1933. The first letter is a report from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain about a claim of fraud made by Maginmal Likumdas (also spelt Lakamdas) of Dubai, against a former slave called Sultan Al Habshi, also of Dubai, which was investigated and upheld by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. This is followed by an acknowledgement letter from the Political Agent, Bahrain to the Residency Agent, Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence (mainly copies) regarding irregularities in connection with the administration and command of the Muscat State Levy Corps by Captain A R Walker, 11th Sikh Regiment.It includes:copies of correspondence between S E Hedgcock, Muscat, and the Political Agent, Muscatcopies of demi-official letters from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Muscatcopies of correspondence between the Political Agent, Muscat, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulfcopy of memorandum from the Adjutant General in India, Army Headquarters, Delhi, to the Headquarters, Western Command, Quetta, and enclosurescopy of memorandum from the General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, to the Adjutant General in India, with enclosures including a memorandum from Captain Walker to the Adjutant, 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment, answering allegations made against him by S E HedgcockPhysical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 20; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains papers regarding Leonid Tour-Pavlikovsky,a Russian citizen travelling under a false Romanian passport with the nameGeorge Woodward.Much of the file consists of the subject’s statement toBombay police explaining how and why he obtained the passport and detailing hissubsequent travels.The remainder of the file includes a requestfrom Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, Foreign Secretary in the Government ofIndia, for verification of the subject’s movements in Persia, and replies fromthe British Consulate, Shiraz, and Vice-Consulate, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 30, and terminates at f 44, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, 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.
Abstract: Reports on the general economic situation in Persia [Iran] as reported by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The file includes: newspaper cuttings and typewritten extracts of articles in the Persian press (chiefly
Le Messager de Teheran); budget statements issued by the Persian Government; statements of accounts published by the Banque Nationale de Perse (also referred to as the National Bank of Persia, later the Bank Melli Iran); reports from the Persian Board of Currency Control.Subjects of note covered by the volume include: the transfer of the monopoly of banknote issue from the Imperial Bank of Persia to the Banque Nationale de Perse; the Persian Government’s decision to change from a silver to gold standard in 1930, and the effect in Persia of Britain’s abandonment of the gold standard in the following year; the Persian Government’s appointment of Belgian financial experts to the Persian Treasury; a crisis in Persian currency exchange regulation, the Persian Government’s monopoly control on foreign trade, and the impact of both upon British subjects and commercial concerns in Persia; annual budgets of the Persian Government; the affairs of the National Bank of Persia during 1932-33, including allegations of financial wrongdoing by its German directors, Otto Vogel and Kurt Lindenblatt; Lindenblatt’s conviction and imprisonment in Persia; the appointment of another German, Walter Horschitz-Horst, as director of the bank; financial arrangements of the Trans-Persian Railway.The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Robert Henry Clive, Reginald Hervey Hoare; the Commercial Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran, Eric Ralph Lingeman.The volume includes a large number of items in French, including newspaper cuttings and reports and correspondence issued by the Persian Government and Banque Nationale de Perse.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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 413; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.