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'Persian Gulf Gazetteer. Part I. Historical and Political Materials. Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904' [23] (31/68)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 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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" Colonel Pelly may be expected to return from his leave by the in-coming Mail, and I
would propose to send him to Maskat in the first instance, before he proceeds to Bushire, with
such instructions as the Governor General may approve..
" With this view these proceedings should be at once reported to the Governor General,
and early instructions should be solicited."
88. In reply to the letter from tlie Bombay Government, submitting the
Letter fo.m the offiei »tin s Under Secretly, foregoing Minute, the Government of
Foreign Department, No. 940, dated the 8th Nov India Communicated On the 8tll NoVCm-
ember 1865. ^305 following telegraphic instruc
tions from Sir Charles "Wood :— <{ A telegram has been sent to the Senior
Naval Officer at Bombay to comply with any request of yours. It may be
advisable to beg the Senior Officer at Bombay to proceed to the Coast of Arabia,
and in concert with the British Resident to take such measures instrumental
they may think likely to promote an arrangement between the Wahabi Chief
and the Imaum. He is not, however, to undertake anything on land." In
communicating these instructions, the Government of India desired that
Colonel Pelly should impress on the Sultan of Maskat the necessity of vigorous
action on his own part, and discourage any hope that the British Government
would fight his battles for him.
XXV--British Operations against the Wahabis, 1865—1866.
89. Colonel Pelly having meanwhile returned from Europe, he was furnish
ed with the instructions received from the Government of India on the 14th
November 1865 (the date of their receipt) and proceeded in the Steamer Bere
nice to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, for the purpose of enquiring into the actual position
of affairs in Oman so as better to enable him to act on the arrival of a man-of-
war at Maskat. On the 28th November he met the Sultan atBarka, and found
that he was fully alive to the necessity of vindicating his authority atSur, and
taking measures for the defence of this inland frontier, but that he was ill-prepared
to do so from the weakness of his material resources. His great immediate want
was money. Colonel Pelly strongly recommended that a loan of two
lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
, at
5 per cent., should be granted to the Sultan, for which His Highness had offered
the customs of the port of Gwadur as security. He also recommended that two
18-pounder guns with ammunition should be supplied to aid the Sultan in his
defensive operations. The Government of India, to whom these recommend-
Mr. Secretary Muir's letter No. 44, dated the 17th ationS Were Submitted, approved the
January 1866. grant of the guns and ammunition, but
observed that no sufficient reason had been adduced for the loan of the two
lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
.
90. Meanwhile Amir Eeysal had died (1865) and was succeeded by his
son Abdullah. This news however reached our Political Officers in the Gulf in
January 1866.
91. Before Colonel Pelly's arrival at Maskat the officer in charge of the
Besidency in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, forwarded a communication purporting from the
Wahabi Amir Eeysal in reply to the representions which had been made to
him regarding the mal-treatment of British subjects at Sur. The Amir
while stating that he had ordered the release of the British subjects who had been
taken prisoners by his lieutenant in the attack on Sur, and the restoration of
their plundered property, was silent about making any reparation for the injury
already done, and in regard to compensation for the man who had been killed
on the occasion.
92. The Amir defended the proceedings of his lieutenant on the ground
that there existed between the Wahabi Power and the British Government an
Agreement originally effected in the time of the late Saud, and again ratified
in the time of the present Ruler.
93. On this point the Assistant Resident at Bushire was requested by
telegraph, to state whether there was any ground for the assertion of the
Wahabi Chief—that any such specific or formal engagement existed between
him and the British Government.
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The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is part 1 (historical and political materials) of a précis of Najd (spelt Nejd throughout) affairs for the years 1896-1904. It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1904 by the Government of India Foreign Department, Simla, India.
The volume includes a preface (folio 3) and list of contents (folio 4). The sections listed in the contents run as follows:
- I: Rise of the Wahabis under Abdul Wahab [‘Abd al-Wahhāb] ante1740;
- II: Political History of Nejd ante 1800 to 1804;
- III: Genealogy of the Wahabi Amirs;
- IV: First encroachments of the Wahabis on Oman,, 1804-1808;
- V: (1) Joasami [Āl Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ] pirates under Wahabi influence first venture into the Indian Seas. (2) Expedition against Joasamis and Wahabis, 1808-1809;
- VI: First Egyptian Invasion of Nejd, 1814-1819;
- VII: Resurrection of the Wahabis and Reconstitution of the Wahabi Kingdom, 1824-1831;
- VIII: Wahabi overtures to British Government, 1831;
- IX: (1) Wahabi Invasion of Oman, 1833. (2) Views of the Government of India as to the claims of Maskat [Muscat] on the British Government;
- X: (1) Turki [Turkī] murdered by Meshari [Mashārī]. (2) Meshari executed by Feysal [Fayṣal]. (3) Feysal assumes Kingdom;
- XI: (1) Second Egyptian Invasion of Nejd. (2) Egyptian withdrawal under British pressure;
- XII: Government of Khalid [Khālid] as Turkish viceregent;
- XIII: (1) Abdullah bin Saneyan [‘Abdullāh bin Thānīyān] seizes the kingdom. (2) Feysal returns from exile;
- XIV: (1) Oman again threatened by the Wahabis. (2) British policy;
- XV: Wahabi attempt on Bahrein [Bahrain]
- XVI: Invasion of Oman by Abdullah, son of Feysal (2) Treaty between Maskat and Wahabis;
- XVII: Feysal's nominal dependence upon Turkey, 1855;
- XVIII: (1) Renewal of Wahabi attempt on Bahrein. (2) British interference, 1859;
- XIX: (1) Blockade of Wahabi ports by Chief of Bahrein, 1861. (2) Blockade raised on British interference;
- XX: Turkish protest against British proceedings;
- XXI: Differences between Sultan of Maskat and Amir of Nejd, 1864-65;
- XXII: Visit of Colonel [Lewis] Pelly to Riadh [Riyadh], 1865;
- XXIII: Difference between Sultan of Maskat and Amir of Nejd (continued), 1864-1865;
- XXIV: (1) Rebellion of two Oman tribes under leadership of Wahabi Officer. (2) Outrage of British subjects;
- XXV: British operations against the Wahabis, 1865-66;
- XXVI: The Amir of Nejd comes to terms, 1866;
- XXVII: Deputation of a Wahabi envoy to Baghdad, 1866;
- XXVIII: Wahabi advances to Beraymi [al-Buraymī];
- XXIX: Civil War between Abdullah and Saud [Sa‘ūd], his brother. (2) Turkish expedition into Nejd to assist Abdullah, 1870-71;
- XXX: Saud bin Feysal's appeal to the Resident for arbitration of the British Government, 1871-1873;
- XXXI: Saud's negotiations with the Turks, 1872;
- XXXII: First Mission of Haji Ahmed [Ḥājjī Aḥmad] to Baghdad, 1872;
- XXXIII: Second Mission of Haji Ahmed to Baghdad, 1872;
- XXXIV: Visit of Abdullah messenger to Baghdad, 1872-1873;
- XXXV: Release of Abdur Rahman [‘Abd al-Raḥmān];
- XXXVI: Death of Saud bin Faysal [Sa‘ūd bin Fayṣal] and election of Abdul Rahman as Amir, 1875;
- XXXVII: Abdullah bin Feysal [‘Abdullāh bin Fayṣal] defeats Abdur Rahman, 1875-80;
- XXXVIII: Threatened Revolt of the Montefik Arabs [al-Muntafiq], 1880;
- XXXIX: Sheikh Abdullah bin Thanneyan, 1879-1880;
- XL: State of affairs in 1881;
- XLI: Rise of the Shammar principality, 1835-1882;
- XLII: Genealogy of Shammar Chiefs;
- XLIII: Hostilities between Abdullah bin Feysal and Ibn Rashid [Ibn Rashīd];
- XLIV: Imprisonment of Abdullah bin Feysal and absorption of the Wahabi Kingdom in the Shammar principality, 1887-1896;
- XLV: Complications with Koweit, 1897-1904.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (34 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged divided into forty five (identified by Roman numerals). There are paragraph numbers that are continuous throughout the whole volume, beginning on 1 at the start of the first section, and ending on 230 in the final section. A contents page appears at the front of the volume (folio 4).
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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