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'MEMORANDUM (a) The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. (b) His Highness Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur.' [3r] (5/10)
The record is made up of 5 folios. It was created in 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The average rainfall varies between three and six inches.
POPULATION . The total population of Oman has been
estimated at 500,000, representing perhaps 15% of the entire
population of the Arabian peninsula. 80% of these are
tribal Arabs, there is a considerable pure negro element
generally in domestic service, and a less numerous foreign
trading element v/hich consists of British Indians, Persians
and Baluchis. There is a large admixture of African blood
in the population at large, as also in the Puling Family.
PRODUCTS AND TRADE . The overseas trade is largely with
Bombay, Aden and Zanzibar, though America takes a
considerable portion of Oman ! s date crop for her own black
population. The fisheries, chiefly shark for export to
the Far East, are of second importance to the date industry.
The camels of Oman are famous throughout Arabia, but the
country is too parched to allow the horse to flourish and
very few are bred. Indigo dyeing, copper and brass work
and cloth weaving are among other industries, and there is
a crude but characteristic variety of gold and silver work,
especially used for sheaths and mountings of daggers and
swords.
RELIGION . The majority of the inhabitants belong to the
Ibadhi sect of Islam, which is elsewhere found in Morocco.
Fiercely intolerant of other creeds, Oman has been
traditionally hostile to foreign penetration, and the
Sultan himself, disapproved of for his infidel associations,
has YLcver deemed it expedient to visit the interior
raoiintains. The tenets of Ibadhism, in their puritanical
harrov/ness, resemble the Wahabism of Central Are.bie.,
GOVERNMENT . The Government of the Sultanate is patriarchal
or feudal, and judged by western bureaucratic standards is
without/
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The file consists of a memorandum in two parts. The first part provides information about the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in eight sections, entitled, 'Territory', 'Historical', 'Physical Features', 'Climate', 'Population', 'Products and Trade', 'Religion' and 'Government'. The second part describes and gives a brief biography of His Highness Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur, and outlines the extent of British influence upon him.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 5; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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