'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [357] (399/733)
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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JOASMEES.
357
During the years 1852 and 1853, Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur would
seem to have laboured under feelings of extreme irritation, and
have done all in his power to incur the displeasure of the British
Government.
Twice during the period I have mentioned was our British Agent at
Shargah subjected to insults whilst residing at his post within the
Joasmee dominions,—once from people of Shargah, with the connivance
of its chief, a son of the Joasmee, and once from parties in the interest
of the Wahabee Ameer, whom Shaikh Sultan professed his inability to
control. In either case was redress demanded and afforded; but
scarcely had satisfaction been given, and a reconciliation between
Shaikh Sultan and the British Agent been effected, in the presence of
Commodore "Robinson, than the former addressed a letter to the Re
sident, preferring a fresh set of charges against the latter, for misappro
priation of monies entrusted to his care for delivery to others,— charges
both vague and groundless, as was proved by the fact of his be?ng
compelled to retract every particle of the accusation he had made, when
called upon to furnish proof of the truth of the allegations. Again,
towards the close of the year 1852, Shaikh Sultan wrote a letter to thc>
Resident, complaining bitterly of the manner in which he was brought
to account for even the slightest case of maritime irregularity committed
by his dependents, whilst the other subscribers to the truce, he said,
were permitted to act with impunity, and were net remonstrated with
on occasions of infraction of their engagements with the British Go
vernment. The Joasmee was favoured, in reply, with a communication
from Captain Kemball, completely refuting every charge of partiality
he had thought fit to adduce, and proving most clearly that one and all
of his insinuations were groundless.
Much of this soreness of feeling was supposed to have arisen out
of an ill-will borne to the British Agent, in consequence of divers
disclosures he made to the Resident regarding the traffic in slaves
carried on by the Joasmee's dependents. Another and far stronger
cause of irritation, however, was to be attributed to an intimation
conveyed to Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur by Captain Kemball, « in
compliance with the orders of the Honorable the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
, that
Government refused its confirmation of the arrangement he (Shaikh
Sultan) proposed to Colonel Hennell, for the payment through him,
instead of direct to the injured parties, of monies which might be
recoveied hereafter as compensation for piracies, homicides, or other
injuries sustained by his subjects."
This announcement would appear to have well nigh maddened
the Joasmee. "He was very wroth" so writes the Agent in a letter
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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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