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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [65] (107/733)
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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BRITISH POLICY IN THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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a Piratical war being in existence previous to the conclusion of this
Treaty with the pacificated Arabs, it was necessary, for the purpose
of introducing the new order of things which the Treaty announces in
Article T.,* that these piratical wars should be brought to a termination :
with this view Article IV. of the Treaty was inserted.
« The meaning of this Article, when taken in conjunction with the
definition of acknowledged war to be found in Article II., becomes
perfectly apparent, and it may be thus developed ,
« The pacificated Arabs shall all of them continue in their former
political relations with each other, with the exception that as all
piratical wars shall henceforward cease, they shall be at peace with t le
British Government, and shall not fight with each other in the same
piratical manner ; and the flag is a symbol of this, viz. that piratical
wars have ceased, and of nothing further. ^
« It is not, and therefore never can be called, with propriety, the
British flag; it is only the flag of certain friends of the British, who
may, by the adoption of this flag, be desirous to avoid the risk of being
confounded with pirates. There is nothing in these Articles which
prevents the Arabs declaring war ; but whenever they do so, they are
required to fight after the manner of acknowledged war, which Article
II. defines to be that which is proclaimed, avowed, and ordered, by
Government against Government. The British Government has always
" said that it will consider all wars that are not acknowledged as piratical,
and treat whoever may be engaged in them accordingly ; and the latter
part of Article II. states that the killing of men, and taking of goods,
without proclamation, avowal, and the order of a Government, is plunder
and piracy. _ • • ,1
" The British Government being most desirous to maintain to the
whole of the Arab Tribes inhabiting the shores of this Gulf the blessings
of peace and tranquillity, is most ready on all occasions to offer its
mediation where disputes may exist, and will always rejoice at their
peaceable and happy termination; whilst it avows most distinctly
its absolute determination not to tolerate for a moment any piratical
practices, and it will look to the different chieftains for the maintenance
of due order among all their subjects."
With reference to Article V., the irregular habits of the Arabs,
who could never be brought to understand the meaning and aim of the
papers required, very shortly proved the futility ol the attempt to
* A rticle I .-There shall be a cessation of plunder and piracy, by land and sea, on the
part of the Arabs who are parties to this contract, for ever.
t The true version -.-The pacificated Arabs shall all of them continue in their former rela-
tions, with the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government, and shall
not fight with each other; and the flag shall he a symhol of tins only, and of nothing fmther.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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