Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat.The item contains intelligence reports sent by Heskeal bin Yusoof. Topics covered include:The communications of Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] with Jubur bin Mahomed bin Nasir [Jabr bin Muḥammad bin Nāṣir], the Chief of Zukee [Izki], and the visit of the shaikhs of the Hijreeyan [al-Ḥijrīyūn], Hooboos [al-Ḥubūs] and al Wubela [Āl Wahībah] tribes to MuscatReports that Syud Hamood bin Uzan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān al-Būsa‘īdī] has placed the forts at Rustak [Rustaq] and Khabooru [Al Khaburah] under the charge of the Mootavas [Muṭawwa‘īn] and plans to do the same for other forts to the west of Sohar, and Syud Thooenee’s attempts to arrange a meeting with Syud Humood bin UzanCommunications received from Captain Saunders at Museera [Masirah]The threats received by Shaikh Suif bin Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Ma‘walī], Chief of Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbas] from the Governor of Shiraz, and the support provided to Shaikh Suif bin Nubhan by Syud Thooenee.The item contains a table of contents (ff 443-444), and the title page (f 442) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 20’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 8 of No. 53’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 442 and terminates at f 451, 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 consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the forty-third in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat.The item contains reports sent by Heskeal bin Yusoof regarding affairs at Muscat. Topics covered include:The movements and activities of Syed Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of MuscatReports of internal conflicts in Oman, including around Budia [Bidiyyah], and at SoharThe visits to Muscat of various notable personsThe return to Muscat of the merchant Shaik Yusoof bin Suggur [Shaikh Yūsuf bin Ṣaqr], who was attacked while he was in Bushire [Bushehr]Reports of a ship from Muscat having grounded and another having been destroyed by fire.The item contains a table of contents (ff 695-696), and the title page (f 694) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 43’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 12 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 694 and terminates at f 702, 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 consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondent is Heskael bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat. It is the forty-fifth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:News from Zanzibar of a ship which was carrying enslaved peopleArrivals from Zanzibar at MuscatMovements of the Governor of Muscat [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd]Tribal disputes in Oman.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 8 of No 4’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 664, and terminates at f 668, 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 consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 21 November 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 15 December 1873, forwarding copies of papers relating to affairs in Nejd [Najd] and Bahrein [Bahrain], and rumoured movements of [Ottoman] Turkish troops on Oman. The chief correspondents are the Acting Political Agent in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department. Also included are translated purports of letters by: the Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]; the Chief of Debaye [Dubai], via his Yawar (Assistant); and the British Agent, Arab Coast, Shargah [Sharjah]. The papers chiefly refer to the dispute between the Chief of Aboothabee and the 'colonists' of Odeyd [Khawr al Udayd], and the purported intention of the Turkish authorities to extend their influence to Oman.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 15, and terminates at f 25, 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. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 15a, f 20a, and f 21a.In the second copy of the despatch two extracts of Enclosure No. 10 have been cut out of the folio (f 23).
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26 December 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 20 January 1873, forwarding information relating to affairs at the port of Berbera on the east African coast. The primary document is a letter from the Assistant Resident at Aden to the Political Resident at Aden, describing his meeting with the Commander of the Egyptian Corvette
Sarka, and in particular their discussions relating to inter-tribal feuds in the locality of Berbera. The despatch is in continuation of Political No. 203 of 21 November 1873 (IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 26-28a).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 267, and terminates at f 269a, 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. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 267a, f 268a, and f 269a.
Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26 December 1873 and received by the India office (date and department not stated), forwarding a copy of a letter concerning relations between Bahrein [Bahrain] and the tribes on the Guttur [Qatar] Coast. The Government of India confirms that it has pointed out to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf the necessity for the Chief of Bahrein to abstain, as far as practicable, from interfering in complications on the mainland. The correspondence is chiefly that of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the First Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. The item includes copies of a translated letter and statement of Sheik Esaw bin Ali [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein, and the purport of a conversation between the latter and the First Assistant Resident. The despatch is in continuation of Political No. 202 dated 21 November 1873 (IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 15-25).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 284, and terminates at f 294a, 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. The sequence contains five foliation anomalies: f 284a, f 288a, f 289a, f 290a, and f 294a.Condition: sections have been cut out of folios 291 and 293.
Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 35 of 1846, dated 31 March 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, regarding ongoing conflicts between local tribes, and the relative safety of supplies to Aden. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folio 399). Correspondence from the Political Agent at Aden addressed to the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 40 of 1846, dated 15 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, regarding ongoing conflicts between local tribes. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folio 501). Correspondence from the Political Agent at Aden addressed to the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 25 of 1853, dated 29 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-8. Enclosure numbers 3-5 are dated 14 to 28 March 1853.Enclosure number 3 is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, reporting on the general state of affairs at Aden and in its vicinity, and in the Red Sea ports. Haines discusses matters including relations between the Foutheli [Fadhli] Chief, Sultan Hamed bin Abdalla Foutheli [Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] and the Lahidge [Lahij] Chief, Sultan Ali M’Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī]. Haines states that the Sultan of Lahidge is anxious to consult him about how he can prevent supplies to Aden being disrupted by the Foutheli Chief, who had united with other tribes in an attempt to achieve this, in order to annoy the Sultan of Lahidge.In the same letter Haines also reports the arrival of the French frigate
Jeanne D’Arcat Aden on 9 March and its departure on 11 March 1853, and states that the French corvette
Caimanwould leave Aden to join the French Admiral at Mocha a few hours after Haines’s despatch. Haines goes on to state that he had been received on board the
Jeanne D’Arcby the French naval Commander-in-Chief Rear Admiral Laguerore [Laguerre?], and Haines provides details of the ship. He reports that the Admiral informed him that he intended to take a cruise to Mocha, Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], Mussowa [Massawa], and Judda [Jeddah], and the officers mentioned that they were also bound for Suez. Haines states that the Admiral was secretive about the reason for their visit to the Red Sea, but the younger officers told him they wanted a settlement to assist them in their steam communication with France. Haines discusses possible places they could choose for such a settlement or coal depot, noting the disadvantages of each place, and speculates about other possible reasons for the visit.Enclosure number 4 is another despatch from Haines to Malet, submitting a report by Lieutenant King of the Indian Navy on affairs at Mussowa, Hodeida, and Mocha.Enclosure number 6 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay concurred in by the Board, stating that the actions of the Political Agent at Aden may be approved, that he should be directed to communicate to the Government of Bombay any further information he may obtain regarding the movements of the French vessels of war in the Red Sea.Numbers 6-8, which a note on folio 541 dated 2 November 1906 states are missing, are listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Times, the
Telegraph and Courier, and the
Bombay Gazetteoverland newspapers of 29 March 1853.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 541-542. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 94 of 1846, dated 26 August 1846. The enclosure is dated 26 June 1846.The primary document is a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], forwarding, for the information of the Government of Bombay and the Governor-General of India, copies of his communications to Sir Stratford Canning, HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Pashalic [Pashalik] of Baghdad [also spelled Bagdad in this item]. It specifically concerns events which have occurred in Koordistan [Kurdistan, also spelled Kurdishtan in this item].The papers notably cover the following:An attack on Sulimanieh [Sulaymaniyah] by a combined force under Ahmed Pasha [Aḥmad Pāshā] and his relative ‘the notorious Brigand Abdullah Beg [‘Abdullāh Beg]’, and ‘his tribe of Sharaf Bainis [Sharaf Baynī]’ (f 38, f 36)Ahmed Pasha’s flight to Zohab [Sarpol-e Zahab] following his defeat by a force led by his brother Abdullah Pasha [‘Abdullāh Pāshā] of Sulimanieh, and the defection of many of the former’s followers to Abdullah PashaThe force sent by Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to re-take the province (on the erroneous assumption of Ahmed Pasha’s success), and Rawlinson’s assertion that Nejib Pasha viewed the attack as ‘the invasion of Sulimanieh by a Persian tribe, rather than as a domestic feud among Turkish Kurds’ (f 38)Rawlinson’s concerns that Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of Kermanshah, has no real authority over Abdullah Beg and would be unable to coerce him or Ahmed Pasha, and that ‘while they continue to hover on the frontier, the country will be kept in a perpetual state of disorder and alarm’ (f 38)Nejib Pasha’s plan for the permanent stationing of Turkish [Ottoman] troops on the plain of Shahrizar [Shahrizor Plain] and Rawlinson’s concern that he will take advantage of the situation to supersede the Baban administration of Sulimanieh altogether with Turkish officials since Baghdad has ‘long been dissatisfied with Abdullah Pasha’s imbecile and unproductive rule’ (f 40) and desirous of securing the territory of southern Kurdistan and Turkish power generally throughout the mountains of the Baghdad PashalicRumours that Ahmed Pasha is said to have colluded with [Rasūl Pāshā] of Rewandooz [Rawandiz, Iraqi Kurdistan], and Rawlinson’s belief that Nejib Pasha will now make a serious effort to disempower him and prevent further opportunities for rebellion.Also included is a copy of Rawlinson’s letter to HM Minister in Tehran reporting and analysing the events, and a copy of a translated letter from Nejib Pasha to Rawlinson covering the background to the situation in Sulimanieh, his previous ‘most marked consideration’ (f 41) towards the ‘transgressor’ Ahmed Pasha including an invitation to Baghdad, and his hope that Persia will refuse him asylum.Physical description: 1 item (12 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 3 of 1847, dated 9 January 1847. The enclosure is dated 27 November 1846.The primary document is a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], forwarding, for the information of the Government of Bombay and the Governor-General of India, copies of his communications to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik].The papers cover the following matters:The punishment of the Persian [Iranian] troops who forced the gate at Kerbela [Karbala] the previous spring (1846) and the reparation and apology offered to Nejib Pashah, Pasha of Bagdad [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], by the Persian Government, which was delayed on its passage to Bagdad due to the quarantine measures imposed by Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of KermanshahThe serious disturbances in the southern part of the province of Kermanshah requiring Mohib Ali Khan to lead a force there, and so delaying the ‘tranquilisation’ of the Turco-Persian frontiers during the forthcoming winterThe problems at Bagdad subsequent to passport regulations being applied to Persian pilgrims (to Karbala) by the Turkish [Ottoman] Government, including: delays in issuing passports due to the large number of pilgrims; disagreement between Nejib Pasha and the Persian Consul over the proportion of Persian pilgrims entitled to free passports following the (unverified) order of the [Ottoman] Porte to grant them to poorer pilgrims; Nejib Pasha’s objection to the Persian Consul issuing passports to Persian pilgrims on the basis that Russian ‘Mahomedans’ [Muslims] from Georgia with Russian passports are not restricted, and his threats to repudiate the right of all Persian pilgrims to passports if the practice continuesRawlinson’s report on a conference he attended between Nejib Pasha and the Persian Consul, largely consisting of the Consul’s complaints about the infringement of Persian rights and Nejib Pasha’s responses, in relation to: a Persian nobleman of high rank who was deprived of his arms on his visit to Kerbella [Karbala] during the summer; the enlistment of Persian refugee soldiers in the Turkish army; frontier matters including the ‘depredations’ by frontier tribes; the Turkish guard ship off Mohamerah [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah] which the Consul claims is impeding the trade of that place; and Persian intentions to facilitate the passage of their pilgrims journeying to Kerbela across the rivers Diala [Diyala] and Euphrates at cost-price in order to counter the expensive charges of the company contracted by the Turkish Government.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 21 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosure is dated 26 December 1846.The item comprises despatches from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], forwarding for the information of the Government of Bombay and the Governor General of India, copies of his communications to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik].The papers cover two matters:The orders obtained by Rawlinson, on behalf of Persia [Iran], from Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], for the repositioning further southward of the Turkish [Ottoman] guard ship stationed off Mohumra [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah], including a copy of his letter to Joannes Parseigh, the British Agent in Bussorah [Basra], directing him to hand the orders to Khurshid Beg [Khūrshīd Beg], Acting Governor of Bussorah, and see that they are implementedThe preliminary arrangements, by Rawlinson, for a conference between the Turkish [Ottoman] and Persian frontier authorities to encourage the suspension of the ‘internecine conflicts’ between the Kurds and avert further violence and retaliation, including: the appointment of a Persian Commissioner; Nejib Pasha’s requirement that Abdulla Pasha of Sulimanieh [‘Abdullāh Pāshā of Sulaymaniyah] collect all chiefs implicated in the latest disputes to attend the conference; and Rawlinson’s encouragement of Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of Kermanshah, to cooperate and collect together the relevant tribes on the Persian side.Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)