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'Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Bahrein [Bahrain] Affairs, 1854-1904' [‎27] (46/204)

The record is made up of 1 volume (98 folios). It was created in 1904. 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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8g. The sum result of Colonel Felly's proceedings at Bahrein in November
and December 1869 amounted to this—
90. The Fort of Manameh was bombarded and destroyed, and, with the
exception of Nasir-bin-Mubarak, who escaped to the mainland, Mahomed-bin-
Khalifah, Mahomed-bin-Abdullah, and the leading marauders were captured, and
Isa-bin-Ali bin-Khalifah, a son of the late Chief, was installed as Chief, on the
understanding that the property^ of the pirate leaders would be considered as
forfeited, and applied in the first instance towards the re-imbursement of the persons
plundered. ^ The prisoners, five in number, were taken to Bombay and confined
as State prisoners in the Fort of Asirgarh, whence they were afterwards removed
to Chunar. Two of them, Nasir-bm-Ahmed and Mahomed-bin-Abdullah, died there,
the former in 1873 and the latter in 1877* The remaining three prisoners were in
1887 removed to Aden where, in 1880, two of them were released. The last of the
External A. May 1887, Nos. 169-207. fi ^ e ' M ahomed-bin-Khalifah, was finally
released in 1887 on the sole* condition of
residence in the holy cities of Arabia, In 1889 he applied for permission either to
External a, September 1889. Nos. 133.137. return to his native country or for increased
allowance. The Government of India saw
no reason to take any action in the matter, he could not be allowed to return to
Bahrein, and no increased allowance was admissible especially as it was under
stood that he was provided for by the Turkish Government. He died at Mecca
in 1890.
CHAPTER X.
Persian and Turkish protests against our proceedings at Ballrein
in 1869,
91. The information about Colonel Felly's proceedings duly reached the
Persion protest -1869. ears of the Shah. The Persian Minister
Secret Proceedings .870, Nos. ,72 -177. for Foreign Affairs, in talking over the
events to Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Tehran, remarked that the Forsian
Government had no reason to feel dissatisfied with the punishment inflicted upon
Mahomed-bin-Khalifa for his lawless proceedings at Bahrein, as they were equally
interested with the British Government in maintaining the tranquillity in the
Gulf, but the Shah objected to a Persian Agent being prevented by the English
Resident from landing at Bahrein and communicating with the Chiefs there.
About the same time however Colonel Pelly intercepted a letter addressed by
Hyder Khan, Chief of Dashti to Sheikh Esau (the new Chief of Bahrein), pressing
him to place himself under the protection of the Shah. The Government of India
I74j • held that wo action of the Chief of the
Dashti can in any way he recognized
as affecting the relation of the British Government with Bahrein. " (Letter
No. 562-P., dated 28th March 1870).
92. The following despatches were also addressed by the Government of
India to the Secretary of State.
(1) Despatch No. 78, dated 22nd February 1870, in which they observed:—
" The Persian Government, we may remark, are at the present moment, powerless
to stop disturbances at sea. They have no navy, and even if they were in a position to
purchase vessels of war we could not surrender to them the protectorate of the Gulf
without the certainty of hostilities, not only with Maskat and the Arab Chiefs of the
littoral, who would not tolerate the pretensions of Persia, but also with the Wahabis,
and probably even with Turkey, who could with equal show of reason put forward obsolete
claims to supremacy, which our position as guardians of the peace of the Gulf alone
prevents her from reviving. The obligations, moreover, which we have contracted with
the Arab Chiefs to watch over the peace of the Gulf, to put down aggressions by sea, to
take all necessary steps for the reparation of injuries inflicted on them, are such as we
cannot abrogate. The only security for peace and the safety of trade in these waters
lies in our preserving that position which with the consent of the turbulent tribes, we
somewhat reluctantly took up, which for more than half a century we have, not with
out difficulty and at considerable cost, maintained, and which Persia, with her feeble
resources, and the scanty respect paid for her by the Arab Chiefs of the littoral, could
never assume

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The volume is Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Bahrein Affairs, 1854-1904 (G C Press, 1904).

The volume is divided into the following sections: political events, 1854-70; international status and British protection; and internal affairs and British policy, with appendices.

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1 volume (98 folios)
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There is a list of contents at the front of the volume.

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Pagination: the pagination sequence commences at 1 on the first page after the front cover and terminates at 168 on the last page before the back cover. These numbers are printed, with additions in pencil, and can be found in the top centre of each page. Pagination anomalies: pp. 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H, 1I, 1J, 1K, 1L; pp. 114, 114A, 114B; pp. 116, 116A, 116B, 116C, 116D, 116E, 116F; pp. 147, 147A, 147B, 147C, 147D, 147E, 147F, 147G, 147H, 147I, 147J, 147K. The following numbers do not appear in the pagination sequence: 150-152.

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