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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎3] (38/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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 PEESIAN GULF.
PROVINCE OF OMAN.
The two Arab tribes, Hinavi and Ghafiri, are the most prominent in
the annals of the Province of Oman ; the Yarabi and the Syudi, to
which last belong the family of the present Imaums, being both but
branches merely of the Hinavi. From the Ghafiri the Joasim are
descended.
The following historical paragraphs are from authentic sources of
Arabian Tradition.
Malik bin Fakham, of the Province of Nujd, the first native Arabian
who entered Oman, four centuries before the Christian era, came by the
route of Yemen, where he was joined by little more than a hundred
persons of the Hinavi Tribe of Arabs, who were desirous of following
his fortunes. Malik was of a liberal disposition, and an intrepid mind,
the union of which qualities commanded the admiration and obedience
of his followers.
The first settlement of these colonists was at Bahla, or, according to
others, at Jaalan, two towns of the Dhahirah, or interior portion of the
Province of Oman, south-westward of Muskat about seventy miles.
Here they encountered and overcame the troops of the Persian Mo
narch, and subsequently fortified the ancient city of Rastag, situated in
the central or mountainous district of Oman, thirty miles westward of
Muskat. . „ .
These colonists were shortly increased, by the accession of two hun
dred persons of Malik's tribe, the Bann Honaifali of Nujd, and a second
company of two thousand of the Hinavi from Yemen, who were attract
ed by the fame and increasing power of this chieftain. Successive
addUions of the same and other tribes, to the numbers of these Arabs,
enabled them at length to expel the Persians from rt ' e P 10 """!
"thigh not without severe and obstinate resistance on tl ,e part
of their enemy, who received repeated reinforcements of tioops
Ma kat length died, after having possessed Oman fm forty yea,*
and was interred at Zaki, a town in the central divi.ion of Oman, about

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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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