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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎29] (66/733)

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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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BAHREIN — ORMUS.
29
who would join them, and co-operate in the reduction of Bahrein, were
upheld by the promise of grants of land, money, and exclusive
privileges of tenure. This service was shortly completed, and the
rewards conferred, in the distribution of which the four sons of Jaber
bin Uttoobee claimed a voice in the government, and were refused,
although by the original compact they possessed a just hereditary right
to an equal share of the benefits of a conquest, in the completion of
which they had shed their blood.
On this they left the island of Bahrein in disgust, and commenced
the mode of life their progenitor had pointed out to them, in which
they have since persevered.
Of the four brothers, sons of Jaber bin Uttoobee Yalahimah, Rahmah
bin Jaber only is alive ; Abdoolla bin Jaber was inhumanly butchered
by the Prince of Fars, while living under his pledged protection ;
Bhahin bin Jaber died five years ago, on his return from pilgrimage ;
and. Mahomed bin Jaber was lately killed while defencHng the family
of his brother, at Khor Hassan, from the attack of the Shaikhs of
Bahrein. f
After this conquest, the Uttoobees paid a trifling tribute to the
Persians only four times, and then discontinued, it altogether, ^
ISLAND OF ORMUS.
The Portuguese, by their conquest of Ormus in the sixteenth century,
not only secured the command of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , but gave increased
life and animation to a commerce, which, after having long subsisted
at Siraff,* a port on the Persian shore, sixty leagues from Shiraz, and
twice that distance from Bussora, had passed to this insular station,
and transformed it from a desert to an earthly paradise, which has more
than once been described in terms of splendid eloquence by celebrated
authors.
Justamond, in his History of the East Indies, says "At the mouth of
the Strait of Mocandon, which leads into the Pers.an Cxnlf, l.es the
island of Gombroon. In the eleventh century an Arabian conqueror
built upon this barren rock the city of Ormus, which afterwards beca
the capital of an empire, comprehending a conslderab c par o la
ro^ide, and of Persia on the other, Ormus had - ^
and was large and well fortified ; Persia and
owing to its situation. It was e remember that the
the Indies, which was very considerable,
* A. D. 851. Vide Pinkerton's Collection, Travels. &c.. Vol. I. pp. 181-185,

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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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