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'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION' [23r] (47/396)
The record is made up of 1 file (195 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Statement of slave Rabaiyah bin Fadhel aged about
24 years recorded at the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrain on 9th
April 1930,
I was "born in a village named Raddat-al-Busaid in
Oman* -.hon I v/as about 14 or lb yoars old, I was playing
with three other boys who were older than me, the Badoo
01 Awainer came suddenly on us and took me v/ith them on
camelback.
But my other friends ran away. I remained with them
aoout 5 years. I used to make their camels graze. After
wards they brought me to Dubai and sold me to Majid bin
G-harir bin xass for M000/-« This master took me to the
diving banks as a hauler.
Abouc lour years I was his hauler, but he was giving
me only food and not clothes and was treating me
ill. I ran away to Dubai to Qatar in a sailing boat belon
ging to aji Saleh, a Persian Nakhuda and remained there
or • L 0^-r days. It is about 20 days since I have come to
Bahrain in a steam launch.
'ow I have come to the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
to ask the favour of
the igh overnment to grant me a manumission certificate
so that i may live as a free man.
Before me
olitical Agent, Bahrain.
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The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his inheritance, and correspondence on the rescue of a young Persian slave by Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Emir of Qatar (folios 37-43).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (195 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation is in pencil on the top right corner, starting and ending on the covers. The numbering starts with 1, 1a, and then carries on until 196, which is the last number given on the back cover.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/2/1367
- Title
- 'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 3r:32v, 34r:40v, 43r:79v, 81r:86v, 89r:115v, 115av, 116r:116v, 117v:119v, 121r:155v, 157r:179v, 181r:195v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence