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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [107] (149/733)
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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107
BAHREIN.
together with bis occasional capture of the Bahrein ll ' adlng J^^
proving that he has not abandoned his hostile des.gns, are not calculated
,0 liTlaT^f B C uggalows (not"including those belonging to the anthon-
tiesl tMrty to forty of the size employed in the Gulf trade, and from
five hundred to six hundred pearl boats, probably make up at t
i • • to- r»f this once extremely commercial and fertile
present time ^ shtppmg ^ ^ foimed by ^ wilson)
island; which, accoi g = large vessels, the property of
rS^a^^ h^ed, and the other ShaiUhs his
L":: mounting in all about fifty guns; ^ jtrt
vessels now in Bahrein ; five hundred common fishing and car^o
boats • and fifteen hundred pearl fishing-boats.
The bl of the population of Bahrein, which is entirely distmct
f. ihP TJttoobees who are Soonees, consists of the aboriginal inha-
bifMts professing for the most part the Sheea tenets of the Mahomedan
faith ' These ave greatly oppressed, and held in a most degraded state
of vassalage by their Uttoobee masters, of which some ° o " ce l ltl0n
be formed from a remark by the same authority (Major Wilson) in 1829
that "the enormities practised by the Uttoobees towards the onginal
inhabitants of Bahrein far exceed what I have ever heard of tyranny
i %TLrnofbe , ouT 0 of 1 place here to notice the positive assertion made
bv Shaikh Abdoolla bin Ahmed to the Resident, on the latter s visiting
Bahrein in June 1839, that " there are many parts between the islam s
and the main where neither Buggalows nor ships would be of any
and tne making its way across
of Ti: S " He added, that " in the time of Shaikh
Nasi; he had himself successfully attacked Bahrein ^
although his antagonist possessed a strong naval force, but which cou
"^his^sertimi^however, requires confirmation, as well from the late,
n ess of ^he discovery of the important fact it disclosed, -
circumstances arising out of his policy at the time, as <--eted wrth
the Egyptian commander, Korshid
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, having rendered it
interest of the Uttoobee Chief to make it.
Esai bin Tarif and Bushire bin Ramah, after their successful at
upon Bahrein, removed with their dependents to Biddah, a dependency
of that island, upon the Guttur Coast.
Esai and his tribe, numbering about a thousand men capable o bear-
in- arms, possess three large Buggalows (one copper bottom), which rade
to°India • five Buteels, each from eighty to a hundred tons; eleven laige
Buteels and Buggalows; and about a hundred and thirty pearl boats..
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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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- 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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