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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎202] (244/733)

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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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MUSK AT.
The towns of Shinas and Ghillal were restored to His Highness. On
his return to Muskat, the Imaum liberated Syud Hillal from confine
ment, and allowed him to proceed to Soweik. The total failure of his
attempt on Sohar, notwithstanding the powerful demonstrations made
by the British Government in sending a vessel of war to Muskat to
protect that place, and its declaration that it would not permit the
interference of foreign tribes in his affairs, proved in a striking manner
the state of weakness to which His Highness' ill-planned and worse-
executed schemes within the last three years had reduced him.
In February 1831, the Imaum again declared war against Humood
A D 1831 ^ zan anc ^ order to promote his
views upon that place, subsidised Shaikh Sultan
bin Suggur of Ras-ool-Khyma, and Shaikh Rashid bin Humeed of
Ejman, by paying them each a sum of money down, with promises of
a much larger amount immediately their troops joined him at Shinas,
The former, as usual, took the money, and neglected to fulfil his agree
ment; but the latter kept his word, so far as to proceed to the place of
rendezvous with a small body of troops. His Highness, after a slight
opposition, succeeded in disembarking his force near Shinas, where,
:after some time, he collected about 2,000 men. Previous to adopting
these measures. His Highness had taken steps to conciliate the
Wahabee Chief, by sending large presents, and in some measure
acknowledging his supremacy. On hearing of the preparations of the
Imaum, Shaikh Tahnoon made his usual offers of assistance,
Avhich, however, were rejected by His Highness, who appears to
'have considered the conduct of the Beniyas Shaikh in the attack
upon Bahrein to have been, to say the least, of a very ^suspicious
complexion. The consequence was, that Shaikh Tahnoon united
■his interests with those of Humood bin Azan, and, by an ex
tensive foray, made by his orders into the Joasmee territories, kept
Shaikh Sultan in check, and otherwise greatly crippled the arrange
ments making by His Highness the Imaum for the siege of Sohar;
into which place Shaikh Humood, after being defeated in the field, was
forced to retreat. The town being closely invested. His Highness
directed a number of heavy guns to be landed from his vessels, and
batteries to be constructed, for the purpose of opening a breach ; but all
his plans were completely ruined by Shaikh Humood making a sud
den and unexpected sally, by which the Imaum's troops, after a slight
resistance, were entirely routed ; while, to complete the ill fortune of
His Highness, the men of the Beni Naeem Tribe, who had joined him
under Rashid bin Humeed, turned their arms against their late allies,
and joined the Sohar forces in plundering and cutting them up. The
loss on the side of the Imaum was so severe (amounting to four or five

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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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