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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [106r] (211/473)
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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asking for assistance from His Majesty^ Government^
and if matters go wrong» and the Baluchis get the better
of it, he may be inclined to lay some of the responsibility
at our door* If on the other hand we give our opinion
against the Sultan's proposals he will be in a position
to make this an excuse for saying that he was thwarted
in his efforts by His Majesty's Government* I enclose
therefore herewith a draft letter which I suggest I
should be authorised to send to the Sultan on these points*
As you are aware the Sultan is a shrewd and capable Ruler,
and once he understands that he cannot father His Majesty's
Government with his schemes, nor expect assistance from
them in carrying these out, he "will not bite off more than
he can chew 1 *! If he finds he cannot tatekle the Baluchis
in the wholesale manner he suggests he will leave them
alone or deal with them piecemeal in some other way*
12 * Our negative attitude, however, (if approved of
by His Majesty's Government) in regard to the Sultan’s
requests for assistance and advice, does not in any way
mean that my approaches to the Sultan will have been without
effect. Short of expelling the Baluchis there is a good
deal that the Sultan can do in forcing his Walis and his
Shaikhs to make it difficult for the traffic through the
Batineh to continue. The mere fact that the Sultan is
annoyed at the suggestion that his administration cannot
stop slave trading on the Batineh will make him all the
more eager to do what he can to put it down, and I imagine
that the action against Hilal's followers referred to above
has been, partly at any rate, the result of my communications.
I have hopes therefore that though perhaps the slave trade
through /
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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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