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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎4r] (9/226)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. 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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Year.
Miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
Paragraph of
Summary.
Page.
A. D.
1756
The Resident at Bussorah is insulted by a Turkish
boatman on the Bussorah River. The Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra.
refuses any redress to the Resident and endea
vours to incite the whole population of Bussorah
against him. The Resident accordingly repairs
to Bagdad and obatains an interview with the
Pacha, who removes the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. and issues
orders for the punishment of those who had in
sulted the Resident. The Pacha at the same time
issues a phirman directing that all possible honor
and regard be paid to the interest and credit of
the British nation on pain of death and forfeiture
of estate
84
32
1759
The French Resident at Bussorah proceeds to
Bagdad and obtains a phirman from the Pacha
directing that henceforth he (the French Resident)
" should be first received on all ceremonial visits
and be respected as first of the European Resi
dents." This order is resisted by the Turkish
inhabitants of Bussorah, and the phirman is,
on the representation of the British Resident at
Bussorah, cancelled by the Pacha, who directs
that the English be regarded as the first in his
esteem
88
34
1759
Mr. Shaw, the British Resident at Bussorah, proceeds
in June 1759, at the pressing invitation of the
Pacha, to visit His Highness at Bagdad, where
on his arrival he is treated with marks of favor
and distinction, and the Pacha grants him a
general phirman, confirming all the rights and
privileges previously enjoyed by the English
89
35
1759
Mr. Shaw returns to Bussorah in September 1759
and finds that the favourable notice taken of him
by the Pacha has produced a favourable effect at
Bussorah
91
36
1760
The Pacha, in August 1760, issues an order for the
exaction at Bussorah of a duty of 5 instead of 3
per cent, upon all European goods landed al that
place. On the remonstrance however of the Resi
dent at Bussorah the Pacha relinquishes this
demand
92
36
1763
On the 22nd January 1763 Government direct
the removal of the Gombroon Factory An East India Company trading post. to Bussorah
and appoints Mr. William Andrew Price " Provi
sional Agent in Persia," and direct him to estab
lish his head-quarters at Bussorah ...
99
39
1763
Instructions issued to Mr. Price by the Bombay
Government on his temporary appointment to
the above office ...
99
39

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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).

The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.

The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.

Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.

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1 volume (111 folios)

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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).

Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.

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Title: 'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information'
Pages: front, front-i, 1r:84v, 84ar:84av, 85r:110v, back-i, back
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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