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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎395] (437/733)

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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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UTTOOBEES.
395
Khor Hassan, on the main, which too he delivered up to partial plunder.
He then, with a view to concentrating and strengthening his resources
on the Guttur Coast, planned and commenced the rebuilding of Zobara,
now deserted, but which forty years before had been the Uttoobee head
quarters.
Omer bin Oofeysan, the Wahabee General, and Governor of Lahsa,
having seized the person of the Chief of the seaport town of Sohat, and
compelled the destruction of that fort, the inhabitants (for the most part
pearl divers), at the instigation of Shaikh Abooolla bin Ahmed, seceded
to Bahrein, to the number of about three-fourths of the population.
The continued detention as a prisoner, by the Wahabee ruler, of
Shaikh Shafee, the Chief of the Huwajir, a staunch adherent of Shaikh
Abdoolla bin Ahmed, whose release had been declared a sine qu& non
by that chief to the entertainment of any overtures of peace between
them, precluded compliance on the part of the latter with the demands
of the former, for the suspension of the blockade of his seaports of
Kateef, Sohat, &c., and determined the former in favour of the cause of
his guest, Mahomed bin Khaleefa, to whose solicitations his power had
not as yet attained sufficient stability to admit of his actively acceding,
in consequence of some of the JBedouin Tribes having failed to tender
their submission to his authority. Mahomed bin Khaleefa accordingly
commenced collecting forces on the mainland, for the purpose of
renewing the war.
^ Affairs were in this state, and the unpopularity of the Uttoobee
Chief at his height, when Esai bin Tarif, of the A1 Ali Tribe, residing
at Kenn, and Busheer, (with from three to four hundred adherents,)
the son of Rahmah bin Jaubir (the famous Pirate Chief of Demaum,
who in the latter end of lb26, worsted in an engagement with a
very superior Uttoobee force, to avoid capture, with his own hand
set fire to the powder magazine, and blew up himself and his vessel),
visited Bushire together, for the purpose of intimating to the Resident
their desire to make common cause with the junior Uttoobee Chief,
who had invited them to join his standard ; and of soliciting his
permission to wage open war accordingly upon Bahrein.
Ihe reason given by the latter for becoming a party to this formid
able coalition* was, that in consequence of the blockade maintained by
Abdoolla hin Ahmed, he was unable to carry away the produce of
his paternal estates at Demaum (near Kateef).
The outline of the cause of Esai bin Tarif's discontent has been already given. The
public opinion was now very strong that the late disturbances at Bahrein had been instigated
and fomented by him, who, having no adequate means singly of attacking Shaikh Abdoolla,
forced on gradually by his intrigues that great object of his ambition, a powerful coalition
against his enemy.
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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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