Letter no.378 of 1857 from Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/173, ff 3-36
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The record is made up of 33 folios. It was created in 22 jun 1857. 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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The letter is a covering letter (folio 3), enclosing an administrative report (prepared by the Assistant to the Resident, Herbert Disbrowe) containing a narrative of events occurring at Muscat, Bahrain, and the Maritime Arab States, for the administrative year ending 30 April 1856. Jones writes that a separate report on the slave trade, covering the period October 1844 to 30 April 1857, will follow. Following Jones’s letter is a chronological table and index (folios 4-5), which list occurrences in the Gulf between the period May 1855 and April 1856, though not in a strict chronological order. Each occurrence has a page number, although it is unclear how the page numbers refer to the report, which has no consistent original pagination sequence.
The report itself (folios 6-36) is arranged by geographical area or tribe, as follows:
- Joasmees [ 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. , incorporating Sharjah and Ra’s al-Khaymah]
- Beniyas [Banī Yās]
- Debaye [Dubai]
- Ejmaun [Ajman] and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn
- Uttoobees [ʿUtūb] and Wahabees [ Wahhābī A follower of the Islamic reform movement known as Wahhabism; also used to refer to the people and territories ruled by the Al-Saud family. ]
- Muscat
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- 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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- IOR/R/15/1/173, ff 3-36
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- 22 jun 1857 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/R/15/1/173, ff 3-36
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- Letter no.378 of 1857 from Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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- 3r:35v, 35ar:35av, 36r:36v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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