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'File 8/2 Muscat State Affairs: Boundary of Muscat' [3r] (5/60)
The record is made up of 1 file (28 folios). It was created in 26 Jan 1936-28 Mar 1948. 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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Note on the Boundaries of the Sultanate of Muscat & Oman.
In fact the whole of this portion of the
coast is free from Muscat control.
The exact boundaries of the State of Muscat
and Oman have never been demarcated and in many places
on the land side are not properly known.
The attached rough sketch map* however, shows,
sufficiently accurately for practical purposes, the
limits of the sultanate.
To the North the sultan's teriitory commences
at the small port of Tibba in the Persian viulf. The
boundary line, as shown by the red dotted line in the
sketch map, from Tibba runs roughly 4^ast to a point a
few miles from the coast then turns bouth anu ends at
Has Bharbat All, which marks the southern limit of the
bultanate.
It may be noted that with the exception of the
Batineh, the immediate neighbourhood of Muscat and the
province of Dhofar in the bouth, the authority and
control of the sultan's Government is confined to the
coast.
Nortfc of the Batineh district from kurair to
Has sarkan are a number of small independent ports
under the jurisdiction of their own bheikha. Chief of
these are Kalba, khur Fakkan and Bibba/. These are
marked in Green on the map*
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This file concerns the boundaries of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It includes four copies of a single page of notes on the boundaries of the Sultanate, dated January 1936 and prepared by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Consul, Muscat (ff 3-6), together with four versions of an accompanying sketch map showing the limits of the Sultanate (ff 7-10).
The remainder of the file is mainly correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and the 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , regarding whether or not certain locations fall within Muscat territory. One particular letter from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. to the 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. , dated 29 June 1944, provides details of what the Sultan of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] considers to be the interior boundaries of Muscat (these are given as four sets of degree coordinates, which the Sultan is said to have received from a previous Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Major Ralph Ponsonby Watts).
Included among the correspondence are two further sketch maps depicting the north-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (28 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-28; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/6/186
- Title
- 'File 8/2 Muscat State Affairs: Boundary of Muscat'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 11r:18v, 20r:21v, 23r:29v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence