PZ 4718/1934 ‘Historical Memorandum on Bahrein.’ [‎5r] (9/48)

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as there is not the smallest connection between it and
t le British nag, nor the smallest pretension to superiority
on the part of the British Government”), the Imam of
Muscat, and the Sheikh of Bahrein, and as a mark of dis
approbation he was removed from his appointment. With
regard to the clause of the agreement affecting Bahrein 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. remarked : “ It acknowledges the n £
Gng of f ersia s title to Bahrein, of which there is not the Bombay to
least proof, and which the British Government cannot assert Capt. Bruce
without injuring the pretensions of the Imam [of Muscat] and 1491 of
the Uttabis. . . . On the Persian side, the Shah not only 1-H-Ijp2,
refused to approve the arrangements which had been made, para - 6 -
but expressed his displeasure that the Prince of Shiraz Teh. Desp.
should have entered into any engagement with the British No -1=
Government without his knowledge and injunctions. The 25 - 1 - 1823 -
agreement was thus repudiated by both sides.
1822-29. Bahrein—Muscat Disputes.
22. By 1822, if not earlier, the Sheikhs of Bahrein had Lor. I, 851.
ceased to observe the engagement undertaken by them in Govr. to
1820 to pay an annual tribute to Muscat. In August 1822, Imam,
an attack by Muscat on Bahrein seeming in consequence Qoy r 18 t Q 2,
imminent, the Governor of Bombay, in letters to the Sheikh g£Iikh°
and to the Imam of Muscat, suggested that if this tribute 19.8.1822.
was of ancient origin it should be regularly paid, but that Precis, 307.
otherwise it should be dropped. In January 1823 the k 01 *- P 850 *
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. (Lieut. McLeod) visited Bahrein to Resdt. to
reassure the Sheikhs in regard to the unratified treaty Govt, of
concluded by Captain Bruce with the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925). of nTcTs^
Shiraz, and to inform them that that treaty was of no effect 27.2.1823.
and that no change of policy was contemplated by Govern- Lor. I, 852.
ment. In the spring of 1823, on rumours of a contemplated G-ovt. 0 f
joint attack on Bahrein by Persia, Muscat and the Arabs of Bombay to
the mainland, the Minister at Tehran was asked at a suitable
juncture to dissuade the Persians from disturbing the 26°3.1823.
tranquillity of the Gulf.
23. In February 1824 the Resident composed for a period
of two years the acute internal disputes between members of
the ruling house which were for many years a feature of the Lor. I, 851.
history of Bahrein. In 1825 the Governor of Bombay
personally remonstrated with the Imam of Muscat on an
endeavour by the latter to interfere in the question of the
Bahrein succession consequent on the death in that year of
Sheikh Salman, who had ruled the Sheikhdom since 1796 (in Lor. I,iii,X,
association in his later years with his brother Abdulla). Table 9 -
Reassertion of Persian Claim, 1825.
Resident to the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925). of Pars, who had been
24. In 1825 an intimation was made by the Political
an expedition to subdue Bahrein, and whose
informed that no control was assumed over the people of