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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [60] (102/733)
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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60
ARAB TRIBES.
in the Gulf they have employed every effort to check, and to which thev
have ever manifested a decided hostility. The Imaum of Muskat has
no greater merit: with more powerful resources to maintain its inde-
pendence, His Highness was equally compelled to preserve the
existence of his Government by an abject submission to the authority of
the Wahabee Chief. The Imaum acknowledged allegiance to the
VV ahabees, and his whole fleet would have engaged in piracy but for
the timely interposition of the British Government in 1809.
The Records of the Bombay Government, and every other authority
I have consulted, fully corroborate the fact, that previously to the estab-
Iishment of the Wahabee power,—and I would except also the period
from 1694-95 to 1736, during the ascendancy of the Muskat Arabs —
the tribes in the Gulf were engaged in commercial enterprise ; in the
cultivation of extensive groves of the date tree ; and in the pursuit of a
ucrative pearl fishery : their vessels resorting to the ports of India
emen, Africa, Sind, Kutch, and Bussora, which afforded profitable'
employment to the maritime portion of the population of the Gulf.
It is a very extraordinary fact,—at least I have not been able to trace
anything to the contrary,—that during the whole period of the ascen
dancy of the Wahabee power in the Gulf, the Imaum of Muskat has
not lost an inch of territory, nor a single port, that belonged to his
ancestors, on the shores of Oman.
Neither has he any claim to the ports of the Joasmees. Oman has
from the earliest ages been divided between two tribes, the Beni
Yemen or Beni Hinavi, and the Beni Nasir or Beni Gafree. The
maum is the head of the first, and his ancestors have possessed one of
tie two principalities into which the province is divided, namely
liastag, of which Muskat is the principal port.
The Chief of the Joasmees is the head of the other tribe, and has for
ages possessed the other principality, called Seer or Julfar, of which
Ras-ool-Khyma is the chief seaport. His ancestors settled in Oman
belore those of the Imaum of Muskat.
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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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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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