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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎144] (186/733)

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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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144
UTTOOBEES.
Occurrences.
u D. 1826
Resident to interfere in his behalf, receives on board a
reinforcement of Beloochees, and returns toDamaum;on
entering which place he fires a salute, as a mark of con
tempt. Ahmed bin Soleyman, a nephew of the reigning
Shaikh, attacks him in his vessel. A desperate action
takes place. Ramah sets fire to his own magazine, and
blows himself and crew into the air.
Busheer, the son of Ramah, surrenders Damaum uncondi
tionally. His life and liberty are granted him, and he
proceeds to Muskat, where His Highness the Imaum pre
sents him with a Buggalow Large trading vessel. , to enable him to gain a live
lihood by trade.
Through the influence of the Imaum, Busheer is permitted by
the Wahabee Chief to build a fort at Dareen, a place on
Tirhoot, an island opposite to Kateef, where he is joined
by many of the Aboosemate tribe, bitter enemies of the
Uttoobees.
Suliman bin Ahmed, the colleague and elder brother of Shaikh
Abdoolla, dies, and is succeeded in his property and
political influence by his eldest son, Shaikh Khaleefa,
who accordingly shares the net revenue of the island
equally with his uncle, with whom the executive power
and transaction of all public business still remain, the
concurrence of the nephew being, however, considered
necessary.
A piracy is committed by Obed or Abdoolla bin Mohunnah,
an inhabitant of Biddah, a Bahrein dependency, upon a
Bushire boat, oft' Gonara.
The Chief of Biddah, stabbing an individual of Bahrein, is
placed in confinement by his feudal superior. The inha
bitants thereon becoming refractory, are removed to Rowees
and Fowarah, more immediately under his control, and
their fort is destroyed by the same authority.
Obed bin Mohunnah commits further piracies, but is himself,
after a desperate resistance, taken prisoner on his landing
at Zeerah, on the Persian Coast, to make inquiries regard
ing the destination of a Buggalow Large trading vessel. then at anchor. Being
convicted by the British authorities, he is handed over to
the Shaikh of Bushire, whose subjects had suffered from
his late piracies, but contrives to escape. The crew of his

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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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