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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [153] (195/733)
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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wahabees.
Date.
Occurrences.
reduce it to great distress.
Its Imaum buys it off for one
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
and forty thousand dollars. The Wahabees ' re
now in possession of nearly the whole sea coast on the
western frontier of Arabia.
a. d . 1803 The Wahabee ruler, Abdool Azeez, murdered (as he was
Nov - about to make the conquest of Oman) in his capital of
Deriah, whilst at evening prayers in a public place of
worship, by a religious fanatic, who is immediately killed
by his adherents, i aood succeeds his father as • ahabee
ruler.
1806 Saood takes the field with about -50,000 men ; first plunders
the Dufeeh, and then the Aneeza 1 ribe | proceeds and attacks
Meshid Ali, and aft rwards Seraowka, from both of which
places he is repulsed. He then proceeds to Zobeer, a few
miles from Bussora, upon which town local obstacles pre
vent his making any attempt, but which is nevertheless
thrown into great consternation.
The preponderance of the Wahabees completely established
in Oman.
Mecca and Jeddah taken, without opposition, by the Turkish
troops of Mahomed Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, also Taif; thus the Wahabee
power in that part of Arabia is annihilated.
Saood dies on the 10th April, and is succeeded by his el lest
son, Abdoolla.
Ibrahim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
defeats the Wahabees at Manwiah, seven
stages from Deriah ; and, following up his success, invests
and reduces the city on the 10th September; destroys the
fortifications, town, and plantations of date trees, and
removes the inhabitants to Lahsa, the intended future seat
of his government.
Abdoolla bin Saood is taken prisoner, and sent off to Egypt.
Kateef, the principal Wahabee seaport, next surrenders to
the Turkish troops.
1824 Shaikh Toorkey, the son of Abdoolla bin Saood, collects a
considerable force, and marches against the Turkish pro
vinces to the westward, but is repulsed by Ahmed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
He soon after makes another attempt, and is successful.
Mar. 1830'|The Beni Khalid are outmanoeuvred, and attacked at disad
vantage by the "Wahabee forces, under Toorkey bin Saood
and his son Fysul, and are completely routed, their families,
1808
1811-12
1814
1817
1818
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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.
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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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