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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎421] (463/733)

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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. 421
island. This person, together with two other seceders (Shaikh Mahomed
bin feaeed, and Shaikh Jassim bin Mahomed), were conveyed to Bahrein
by one of the British vessels, and, after some discussion and hesitation, i f
matters were, in June 1849, amicably arranged between Shaikh
Mahomed bin Khaleefa and themselves.
In the following year (1850) a piracy was committed by some
a. d . 1850. Bedouins of the Huwajir Tribe upon a Gooncha
of Karrack. Towards the close of the month of
June, the latter vessel "left Karrack with a crew of six men, and a cargo
of wheat and barley, for Kateef." On arrival off Ras Tanoora, Abdool
Rahman, hei Nakhoda, was suddenly attacked by a party of twenty-six
of the Huwajir Tribe, who were returning to their country in a Bah
rein Buggarah, and, after a show of resistance, was compelled to sur
render up his boat and people to the mercy of the pirates, who took
them to the mainland, and stripped them of all they possessed.
The Resident had frequently warned the Chief of Bahrein that for
any piratical acts committed by the Bedouins of the Huwajir Tribe he
would be held responsible by the British Government, for not only had
he connected himself by marriage with the people of that tribe, but he
permitted them to frequent Bahrein in considerable numbers, and was,
moreover, known to be secretly encouraging them in the prosecution
o their lawless proceedings. Demands were accordingly made upon
Shaikh Mahomed bin Khaleefa for the payment of 100 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , by way
of compensation to the Nakhoda and crew, and instructions were
issued to Commodore Porter to communicate with the chief and
point out to him the necessity of an immediate compliance with the
Resident s requisitions. No measures of coercion proved necessary on
this occasion, for notwithstanding the constant assertions of Shaikh
Mahomed bin Khaleefa that he did not consider himself answerable
for the acts of the Huwajir Tribe, he paid over without demur the 100
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. required from him, and brought the matter to a speedv
settlement. r J
Scarcely had he adjusted the affair, however, apparently too with
ess reluctance than he was wont to display in cases of demands
being preferred against him, than he suddenly plunged into the
other ^ extreme, and adopted a line of behaviour at once insolent
and inexcusable towards the British Government. He received
a number of letters from the Resident on the subject of certain com-
p aints he had made to the British Agent regarding the death of one of
his subjects, and at the contents of those communications he took of-
fence, and sent back messages to Colonel Hennell, through Haiee Jassim
of .he most «insulting and unbecoming eharaeter" ^mLagirappl" :
not only to himself in person, but reflecting upon the British

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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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