'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [56] (98/733)
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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A1UB TRIBES OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
OF THE MUSKAT ARABS, JOASMEES, UTTOOBEES, WAHA-
BEES, AND OMAN,
I k the following paragraphs I have endeavoured to supply the want
under which this Government has hitherto laboured of an adequate
knowledge of the complicated interests that prevail in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
by affording a sketch of the history of each of the Powers which have
contended for superiority, and of the various revolutions which have
occurred in that quarter from the earliest period.
During the ascendancy of the Portuguese nation, which under
Alphonso d'Albuquerque conquered all the islands in the Persian
Gulf in a. d . 1507, its navigation was perfectly secure from piracy ; it
continued so during the reign of Shah Abbas, or until the rise of the
Muskat Arabs, which may be dated from a. d. 1694-95.
On the death of Shah Abbas, the Arabs, who had from the earliest
ages possessed a superiority at sea over the Persians, established an
influence which they maintained until the year 1736. Their depreda
tions during that period were carried on to a most alarming degree,
extending to the Indian seas, and the ruler of Muskat became master of
all the islands.
1 he power of the Muskat Arabs declined in the reign of Nadir
Shah, who re-established the Persian influence; an ascendancy which
was maintained during the subsequent reign of Kureem Khan. The
tianquillity of the Gulf was, however, disturbed in some degree on the
death of Nadir Shah, by the notorious freebooter Meer Mehana, and by
the Chaub Shaikh, by whose refractory dispositions the trade was
greatly impeded. The British Government was also involved in
serious difficulties by the vacillating policy pursued by its Agents at
Bussora, on that occasion, which reduced our reputation to the lowest
ebb. We experienced a disastrous defeat in an attack of the Chaub,
and failed also in an attempt to reduce Bunderik, belonging to Meer
Mehana. In the course of a badly conducted negociation with Kureem
Khan, for the purpose of retrieving our credit in the chastisement of
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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)
- Arrangement
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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