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'File 6/1 Foreign Interests: American Mission at Muscat' [83r] (165/210)
The record is made up of 1 file (103 folios). It was created in 27 Dec 1908-6 Jun 1935. 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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ill-treat, and perhaps even kill her. He also pointed out
that the performance of the adu would mean the renunciation
of her Christian faith.
3. On the other hand the Council - Saiyid Said and Haji
Zubair - approached me to assist them in getting the v^idow
away from the Van Peursem* s house so that she might perform
her adu in the house of her brother-in-law according to
custom. The Council was apparently under a vague and mistaken
impression that Americans were judicially under the Political
Agent like British subjects. The Council denied that the
woman was a Christian, and urged that as her husband had been
buried as a Muslem his widow should do her mourning according
to local Muslem custom. Saiyid Said, not unnaturally from his
point of view, apart from the religious aspect of the matter,
felt the missionaries’ action as an interference in the
affairs of the State? there was no dispute as to the woman
being a Muscat subject, whether a Christian or no.
4. The case itself was not perhaps of much moment, but the
significance of any dispute depend^ largely on the importance
i - r
which the parties concerned attach to it, and in the present
one the feelings of both the Missionaries and the Council
were involved. Mr. and Mrs. Van Peursem felt so strongly on
the subject that they delayed their departure on leave to
America for some weeks until the case was settled. My position
was not an easy one. Both on general grounds, and particularly
at the present juncture (when we are asking the United States
on behalf of the State for permission to raise the customs
tariff) it was obviously most undesirable that there should be
any serious clash between Muscat and the local American
Missionaries. At the same time it was distinctly undesirable
that the Missionaries should be able to say that a ’’Christian"
woman had been treated harshly with the tacit approval of a
British Consul i.e. myself ? or on the other hand that the
Council should receive the impression that I was putting
pressure on them on bahalf of the Missionaries.
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This file contains correspondence concerning matters related to the American Mission at Muscat including the movements and activities of its members and its desire to establish a hospital in Matrah [Muttrah].
Much of the correspondence is between officials at 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. and the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. & Consulate in Muscat but the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence from members of the American Mission, US diplomatic officials, the Muscat Council of Ministers and Sayyid Faysal bin Turki Al Bu Sa‘id, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Some of the letters from Sayyid Faysal are in Arabic (with English translations).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (103 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 105; 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; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/6/145
- Title
- 'File 6/1 Foreign Interests: American Mission at Muscat'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:14v, 15v:19v, 22r, 23r:24r, 25r:30r, 31r:40r, 41r:43r, 44v:45v, 48r:53v, 54v:62v, 63v, 64v:69v, 74r:75v, 78v:85v, 93r:104v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence