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Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb' [‎28r] (60/882)

The record is made up of 1 file (437 folios). It was created in 9 May 1930-15 Dec 1935. It was written in English and French. 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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ruled as mutually independent Sheikhdoms hy different branches
of the Jowasimi family*
6. Soon after the death of Nadir Shah in 1747, some
of the Jowasimi led their followers (who then and thereafter
were noted pirates and raiders) to the aid of the Persian
Governor of Bunder Abbas and Hormuz, who was pressed for
tribute by various Persian pretenders and involved in
hostilities with various neighbouring chieftains. In the
course of this and subsequent visits the Jowasimi took
possession of Lingah, opposite the island of Qishm, and other
places on the Persian coast. They were driven away during
the ascendency of Karim Khan Zand, who ruled over Persia from
1763 to 1779, but after his death they returned, and held
Lingah and the surrounding district as an Arab principality
until 1887. Towards the end of this period the Persian
Government asserted themselves to some extent upon the coast
of the Gulf and the Jowasimi Sheikhs of Lingah finally became
in effect Persian vassals, whose succession to the Sheikhdom
was habitually recognised by the Shah in the form of an
appointment as Governor of Lingah, who paid to the Shah f s
viceroy at Shiraz such tribute as the latter could extract
from them, and who acknowledged themselves to oe Persian
subjects. In 1887 the Persian Government deposed the last
Sheikh and took over the government of Lingah themselves.
7. Throughout the period under review, that is to say
from a date earlier than 1747 to the present day, the islands
of Tamb and Abu Musa, like the neighbouring Arab coast, have
been in the possession and effective occupation of the ruling
Jowasimi Sheikhs, the latter have always held them, however,
in accordance with Arab custom, on behalf of their clan as a
whole,/

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This file contains correspondence related to the disputed ownership of the Tamb (also written as Tanb and Tund) [Greater and Lesser Tumb] islands between Ras al-Khaimah and the Government of Persia. The islands of Abu Musa and Henjam and their status are also mentioned intermittently throughout the file.

The file is largely composed of internal correspondence between British officials at the Foreign Office, 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. , Royal Navy (including the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) and the Political 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. .

In addition to this, the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence between British officials and the Government of Persia, some of which is in French.

In addition to correspondence, the file also contains the following:

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (437 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 439; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 4-436 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb' [‎28r] (60/882), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3709, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100053685336.0x00003d> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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