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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎334] (376/733)

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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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JOASMEES.
British Government to afford redress ; but with reference to the seizures
of vessels belonging to Musk at, the acting governors of that place,
fearing to incur his more decided enmity, so far from remonstrating,
tacitly, and in some cases openly, sanctioned them.
Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur applied for permission to grant assistance
to the Shaikh of Towanah against him of Charrak,
A - D - 183 ^ both Persian subjects, who were preparing to
decide their quarrel by the sword,—a request with which his engage
ment connected with the establishment of the restrictive line of course
afforded one just plea, among others, to the Resident, for refusing
compliance. " ^ ,
The people of Heera, under the authority of Sultan bm Suggur,
committing a piracy upon a boat belonging to Bunder Abbas, that chief
of his own accord compelled restitution of the property plundered, and
adopted measures to prevent a recurrence of the offence.
The Joasmee Chief superseded his brother Saleh in the government
of Shargah, and appointed in his place his son,
a. d . 1838. Suggur bin Sultan; a change which was viewed
with some dissatisfaction by the British authorities, the former being by
them considered one of the most enlightened and intelligent Arabs on
the coast, who had ever laboured to check the predatory spirit of his
countrymeu, and maintained a continued cordial understanding with
the British Agent, Moolla Hussein, residing at this port.
Two piracies were this year committed, by two Joasmee subjects,
named Sultan bin Sohar and his brother Mahomed ; the former attended
with the murder of several persons, and the plunder of much property,
to the north of the Gulf, upon a boat belonging to Karraclt, having on
board a wealthy subject of Chaab, who had fled Mohumrah on its
attack and capture by Ali Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bagdad, and was now on hiaretnrn;
the other on a Batinah boat off Ras-ool-Hud. Sultan bm Sohar was after
some time discovered and seized at Lingab, and placed at tie ' S P 0S ^
of the Resident, who sent him to Shaikh Samur, the Chaab Chief, to e
dealt with as he might think proper; the other, Mahomed, took refuge
at Ejman, but, as a subject of Sultan bin Suggur, was u
subsequently given up by that chief, together with the Nakh
of the pirate vessel. As the first of these had suffered severely fiom
his confinement in chains at Shargah, he was released, togetier wi
his fellow-prisoner, on their furnishing a bond to pay the sum of
crowns. ,.,10 -i^ tW
Alarmed at the threats held out against them by Shaikh S ^niur,
Governor of Chaab, in consequence of the piracy committe on
Karrack boat, having on board one of his most wealthy su J^ c s
firmest adherents, by Sultan bin Sohar, the Joasmee Chie s o mga

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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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