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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [9r] (17/473)
The record is made up of 1 file (235 folios). It was created in 25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945. 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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1 5 50
Ealat itatOf I Uvq nyaoli boon it ool.o pains to c^ko
si- ilar enquiries irotn a nu bor (of ? lie
ro^ilt I ans conviiiced tiat tho drort is
this raspect iiicoiTect* decauao oiar^O is so
Teve i naY 9 at •the sa a tiL © tried to discover wnat
ri ht iave led to this wronj concluBion f and I there
fore sot out at so: e l^i^th certain relevant i.acts
which ciay allay any asispicion that this nexarious trade
is cdjhten&nced by the Jtate.
4. It is very posBiblo t in the first placet tiiat tne
:. isunderatandin^ iias arisen frorr the interpretations
wiiich may be placed on the phrases used ana in gaQ^eatr
im this t,.ore is no ttou^ht of playing with word*# As
you are aware tne n«re ^Iskmn* is applied proper!., ^to
the Province lyin^: within the Kalat State, a pert of
the Indian Stepire, and equally properlv to the South- #
eastern psrtion of Persia, a ?breijjn State, the inhabi
tants or both deal nating theryselves ^tfc equal proprie
ty as •Baluchis*. Slrthor it is possible that in tno
ori inal report a British Subject ia not distin^aisijed
fra© a British protected person, the subject of an
Indian Stats*
5. As re ards the inhabitants of Kalat M ok ran, the
-contriUition of dau tiers or their sosenfolk to this
trade ’^uld be everywhere regarded with horror and not
even in ti as of faine v^ould ti;e disposal of a xe ale
in this nanner be countenanced even by or snong the
lower tribes. In the ever t of any perooa from Persian
Uekran kidnapping a fet nle, a report wouiu be made f
and no auch report lias neon E’aue,certainly in the last
tibrty years, nor has any incident on these lines oean
the subloct of oocs on talk or ktiowled^e. flih this met
be considered the fact t^at a number of mm from Kalat
l!ekran in trade and professions of various
kinds beto^an Karachi and Basra, contract Eiarria es
with non-Baluchi to an, sore low class, of tne various
coastal areas board«in,p these routes f and often setae
there. Their issue will for s generation or two call
the selvis •Baluch* and ^le^rani* stating tuat they
belong to Paani, (iwadur, Jiwani or to whatever place th*
fater/——- JP.TOJ-
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Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include:
- Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legislation in Saudi Arabia, especially in the east
- British threats of bombardment and withdrawal of good offices given to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
- Slave traffic coming from the Mekran [Makran] Coast
- A suspected slave market at Buraimi.
Principal correspondents include officials at the 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. , Foreign Office, Admiralty, and 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. . Additional correspondence, usually included as enclosures, comes from: Amir Feisal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia; the 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. Agent, Sharjah; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies; 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. , Bahrain; British Vice Consulate, Zahidan, East Iran; British Consulate, Kerman; and Sultan Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Muscat.
Folio 40 is an article on the slave trade in the Gulf taken from The Times , 18 July 1942.
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- 1 file (235 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 237; 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.
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- Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
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- front, front-i, 2r:39v, 40v:107v, 116r:229r, 232r:236r, 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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