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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [94] (136/733)
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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94
CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIP OF THE TRIBES
The Kazee, or Ecclesiastical Judge, constitutes the only tribunal
and decides upon all cases according to the Mahomedan law.
It is by no means uncommon for one of the branches of a tribe, to
the number sometimes of several hundred individuals, in order to
escape excessive taxation and oppression, or with a view to secure to
themselves greater immunities and advantages, to secede from the
authority and territory of their lawful and acknowledged chief into that
of another, # or to establish themselves and build a fort on some other
spot,! and assert and maintain independence ; nor is it a matter of
great moment that the chief they are about to join, or whose friend
ship and countenance they must in the first place command, is a rival
at implacable feud with their own : the advantages attending any
numerical increase of subjects ensure them welcome asylum and
protection. It will not escape observation, that the facilities thus
mutually offered to seceders on the one hand, and the loss of authority
and revenue consequent on their secession on the other, act, vice versa,
as a salutary check to the tyranny and oppression of the respective
chiefs.
The Arabs of the coast are more or less connected with the Bedouin
tribes of the interior, either by ties of relationship, or from consideration
of mutual interests and defence.
Of so great impoitance is their alliance or forbearance considered by
the maritime chieftains, that these, particularly Sultan bin Suggur, who
is especially interested in maintaining a sort of balance of power, find
it their best policy to conciliate them by repeated and considerable
presents.
To go over from one chief to another, with whom they may be or have
been at feud, and even to plunder the territories and subjects of their
patron, should he not coincide in, and follow out their views of ambition,
honour, or revenge, or withhold the usual payment of blackmail, are
shown by the sketches of the Arab tribes to be of constant occurrence
with these fickle allies.
Kh alee fa bin Shakboot may be said to possess the greater influence
inland, and to command the services of the greater number of Bedouin
auxiliaries.
v The Boo Muhair, at Shargah, are an example of the former,
t The Boo Felasa, of Debaye, of the latter.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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