![Copy of letter No 1643/451 of 1872 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on board British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship <em>India</em> , to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay [‎12r] (3/8)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003b2/Mss Eur F126_39_0023.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "Copy of letter No 1643/451 of 1872 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on board British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship <em>India</em> , to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay [‎12r] (3/8)")
Copy of letter No 1643/451 of 1872 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on board British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship India , to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay [12r] (3/8)
The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 19 Oct 1872. 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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Letter concerning the Jennat Khana (house of assembly) of the Khoja community at Muttrah [Matrah] near Muscat and enclosing copies of correspondence and translations relating to the matter which Pelly considers to be a delicate issue with social, political and religious considerations to be taken into account.
The matter concerns the ownership of the Jennat Khana at Muttrah which is used as a public guest house for members of the Sect of Khoja's travelling between Kerbella, Hindoostan [Hindustan] and Africa. Agha Khan [Aga Khan], as spiritual head of the religion is considered to be the lawful owner of the guest house and the dispute is over the decision of the late Imam Azzan bin Ghais to confiscate the building and hand it over to a group of followers who had seceded from the Agha Khan's religious leadership, as well as the current Imam of Muscat's decision to approve of his predecessors actions.
The seceders, who believe they have purchased the building legitimately, have since consecrated it as a Musjed [Masjid] (a mosque) and as such it cannot be 'desecrated by conversion into a Guest House'. The Imam of Muscat sees the building as a Musjed and would not dare to interfere with it, and does not believe that the building was ever the property of Agha Khan.
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Copy of letter No 1643/451 of 1872 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on board British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship India , to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay [12r] (3/8), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F126/39, ff 11-14, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051423.0x000018> [accessed 28 April 2024]
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- Copy of letter No 1643/451 of 1872 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on board British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship India, to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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