'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [363] (405/733)
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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UTTOOBEES.
363
By his talents and his treasures he soon acquired a considerable portion
of the fishery, and by his prudent liberality to the neighbouring Arab
Chieftains, and to those of his former associates, he drew over the rest
of his own tribe to the new colony, and at length completely separated
himself from the other two, and established his independence at Zobara.
6. The sons of Subah and Yalahimah discovered too late the
true motives that influenced Khaleefa's conduct, but were unable to
resent it.
7. The more powerful clan of the two, the A1 Subah, soon felt the
absence of their commercial brethren, in a deficiency of their finances;
and, following the example of their renegade brethren, first refused the
Ai Yalahimah their share of the revenue, and ultimately expelled them
from the port and town of Koweit.
8. The Yalahimah Tribe sought and obtained the protection of their
kinsmen at Zobara, to each of whom, according to his rank, was
assigned an adequate income. In a few years they renewed their
claims to rights founded on their original compact, which they were
not, however, in a condition to enforce.
9. Urged by necessity, and a sense of wrong, the Yalahimah quitted
Zobara, and took up their residence at Raveish, a barren spot at a
short distance eastward of Zobara, and turned their whole attention to
the increase, equipment, and preservation of their fleet, contemplating
the object of revenging themselves on their proud and perfidious
neighbours. They commenced an extensive system of maritime depre
dation, and, by capturing their property, created in the minds of the
Beni Khaleefa fears for their existence, and such a thirst for the
punishment and destruction of the Yalahimah Chief, that, adding to
their own force all the mercenaries their pecuniary resources could
obtain, they environed the marauders on every side. The treasures
which the Yalahimah had amassed, which they were determined to
defend to the last, and the feelings of animosity that existed between
them, led to a desperate contest; the Yalahimah Chief having been killed
at an early period of the action, the overwhelming superiority of their
enemies obtained a complete victory, and a few infants and females
were alone saved from the massacre that ensued.
10. Subsequently to this event, the influence and power of the Beni
a. d. 1 /75-76. Khaleefa rapidly increased. They acquired
an accession of wealth and respectability, on
the attack of Bussoraby the Persians, at which period one of the Shaikhs
of Grane retired to Zobara, witlfmany of the principal people, and ac
companied by some of the Bussora merchants also. A great part of
the pearl and Indian trade in consequence centered at Zobara, and at
Grane, during the time the Persians occupied Bussora; and those places
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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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