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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎510] (552/733)

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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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EJMAN.
A t the date of the General Treaty for the Suppression of Piracy in
a. d. 1820. . this Gulf ' coricl " de d by Sir William Grant Keir
in IS20, the port of Ejman would appear to have
been considered a dependency of the Shaikh of Shargah, having been
included in a treaty with that chief for the surrender of the towers
guns, and vessels of certain places therein enumerated.
So shortly subsequent, however, as the beginning of 1823, Rashid
a. d. 1823. bin Humee(1 of Ejman addressed a letter to the
Resident, complaining of the aggressions com
mitted against him by Sultan bin Suggur, and declaring that he never
would submit to his authority. An attempt on the part of the latter
chief to induce the Resident, while on a visit to Shargah in the same
year, to recognise his supremacy, by showing him a paper signed by
several of the Shaikhs in that neighbourhood, in which they acknow-
e ged their dependence upon him, would allow also of a supposition
that his jurisdiction was not altogether undisputed.
On the othci hand, in a case of piracy committed upon two Debaye
a. d. 1827. boals by a sub j ec t of Rashid bin Hurneed in 1827,
, , a rem onstrance addressed to Sultan bin Suggur
occasioned the offender, with two of his followers, to be placed in con-
finement, without any objection being raised on the subject of his
responsibility, or right of interference.
The revival of the Wahabee power under Toorkey bin Saood, in 1S27,
was seized by the Shaikh of Ejman as a new opportunity for intrigue
ShLTI g ,0 the corres P on dence of the Government Agent at
Chief V' f 18 at i'' 1 ',. arS ,0 ' lave endeavo ured to persuade the Wahabee
Sow T t m Wi ' h tr0OpS ' for lhe P ur P ose of enabling him to
m h. hi de P endenCe u P on Su l'an bin Suggur, or even to supplant
lnTcl s 3r? am0 ? gSt JOaSmee TH ^- bin Saood,
benefilhll if Sal, T* ^ 1,6 ^ would be highly
formerly exerciseH 111 s S ur wei ' e resume the supremacy which he
§ } towards that chief. He added, that

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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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