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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎64] (106/733)

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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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BRITISH POLICY IN THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
umieauny station, but possessing the superior advantage of a spacious
and excellent harbour.
a spacious
Durmg the first few years subsequent to the date of the formation of
this Ireaty,* it was not considered advisable or expedient to hold its
conditions so strictly binding as their import and wording admitted.
War at sea, if previously proclaimed, was consequently not precluded
to the subscribers.
The sentiments of Government on this point were at the time thus
expressed " Oar relations to the Arab States afforded no grounds for
interference to restrain their mutual attacks. It is true that Article IV.
of Sir W. Grant Keir's Treaty mentions peace among themselves as one
oi the alterations in the condition of the Arabs introduced by that
engagement, but this appears to have been rather an explanation of the
intention of the flag, than any distinct stipulation ; and it was explained
by Sir W. Grant Keir, in the 7th paragraph of his letter accompanying
the Treaty, to have been designed, among other purposes, to demon
strate our determination not to interfere with the petty feuds of the
subscribing powers, while they continued to observe the stipulations of
the Treaty. In these circumstances, Government could scarcely
pretend to the power of imposing any restraint on the motions of vessels
intended for a purpose of lawful warfare."
The total cessation of warfare at sea was nevertheless anxiously
desiicd by most of the chieftains, and many indeed themselves enter
tained the belief that it was thus provided in Article IV. of the Treaty.
From the foregoing extract, however, it is seen that the Government
was not prepared at that time to take upon itself the responsibility
which such a line of policy must have entailed, in the investigation
and settlement of such endless complaints and claims, and the redress
of such giievances as must in that case have been referred to it for
arbitration and decision ; and the following explanation of this Article
was accordingly given by Major Wilson to Shaikhs Sultan bin Suggur,
Abdoolla bin Ahmed, and others, on their expressing their conviction
that it involved a total prohibition of hostilities.
* The irregular habits of the Arabs rendered it necessary, in the opinion of Sir W. Grant
Keir, that the Treaty concluded by him should not be strictly enforced for a considerable
period after it was concluded. The numerous petty wars between the different Chiefs of the
Gulf rendered it at all times difficult to distinguish in that sea between acts of piracy and
operations of lawful warfare.

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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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