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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎640] (684/733)

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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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of His Highness the Imaum for an immediate inquiry into the facts
of the case; and in the event of the suspicion proving well founded,
make an application to His Highness to lay an embargo upon such
vessels, until a reference could be made either to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , or to the Government.
The practicability of inducing His Highness the Imaum of Muskat,
and the Arab Chiefs in the Gulf, to prohibit and
a. d. 18 ,3/-38. abolish the traffic in slaves altogether, was at
one time brought under consideration, but the following arguments and
facts, urged at the time, proved the utter inutility of so partial a
measure ;—
That in the first place it would be impracticable to induce His High-
ness the Imaum of Muskat and the Arab Chiefs in the Gulf to put to
an end the traffic in slaves without such a large pecuniary sacrifice
being made on the part of the British Government as would most likely
be considered altogether inexpedient ; and in the second place, that
were such a sacrifice made, the humane and philanthropic objects of
the Right Honorable the Governor in Council would still be defeated
by further impediments and difficulties, for which no remedy could
probably be found.
Article IX. of Sir W. G. Keir's Treaty of 1820, as before men
tioned, had never been held binding to the fullest import of which it
could bear the application.
Since that date a period of seventeen years had passed over without
tiie question having been agitated, and thus the several parlies concern
ed had acquired a sort of prescriptive right, never questioned by the
Government, to consider that Article IX. was inserted solely with the
view of guarding against the forcible carrying away of individuals for
the purpose of selling them as slaves, and not meant to prohibit altoge
ther a traffic which is not only in accordance with the letter and spirit
of their religion, but which long continuance and custom have rendered
almost indispensable to their domestic comfort.
Assuming, however, that Article IX. of the Treaty of 1820 bears
the interpretation best suited to our views and policy, and that our right
to act upon it, although allowed to lie so long in abeyance, is neverthe-
lebs liable to be called into operation whenever we may consider it
expedient to do so, still it must be borne in recollection that even on
the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. alone, neither His Highness the
Imaum, nor the Chiefs of Sohar, Kateef, or Koweit, are parties to this
Ireaty, and therefore their consent to a total prohibition of the traffic in
oui fellow-cicatures could only be obtained by means of negotiation,
and the offer ot such advantages as would in their estimation compen-
>-aie foi the loss they sustained, in the surrender of a practice uniting

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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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