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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [74] (116/733)
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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74
BRITISH POLICY IN THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Government and territory, whether on the grounds of leniency and
indulgence in the exaction of more moderate taxes, superior military
prowess and renown, or greater commercial advantages) anticipates
from a numerical increase to his subjects, and consequent improved
revenue and influence.
The first principle of our policy enjoining, for obvious reasons, a total
non-interference in local matters concerning only themselves, and the
false position in which the assumption of the right of insisting upon
every fugitive being given up to his own chief would evidently place
us, as being calculated to remove the only check at present existing to
the tyranny and oppression of the chief over his subjects, constitute
powerful arguments against affording the required guarantee, or inde
pendently striking a blow at the root of the evil, however much it may be
desirable to remedy it.
The piratical Arab Chiefs, satisfied of the advantages obtained by
the establishment of the Maritime Truce, which, by common consent,
precluding hostilities with each other, removes the chance of a relapse
into a system of general depredations, and unprovoked aggressions, are
now quite as much interested in its maintenance as ourselves ; and of this
they exhibited ample proof in their united readiness to renew it for so
long a period as ten years, or even more, had such been desired
or deemed expedient. As before observed, however, it would be
too much to suppose that so radical a change has been or will
for a length of time to come be effected, as to admit of the total with
drawal of that influence and political control which have, from their
wise and mild exercise, rendered this Gulf, whose coasts are inhabited
by a brave, rapacious, and cruel people, brought up and nurtured from
their childhood among scenes of bloodshed, and licentious and treacher
ous warfare on land, comparatively as safe and open to the trade and
navigation of vessels of all nations, as the seas of any other portion
of the world.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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- IOR/R/15/1/732
- Title
- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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