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'File A/2 (4A II) Slavery: cases received from Muscat for investigation' [‎15r] (29/62)

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The record is made up of 1 file (31 folios). It was created in 24 Dec 1946-24 Apr 1947. 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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Statement of All bln Uobfi^mAd ?rc Crd
sets of Jasiik, at present residing in Bharjaii.
Uy name is Ali bin Moh&iricad, Persian Subject, resident of
«3ashk« I, alcn*? vith ry brother-in-jaw, *^ad Ichaunsad have be ?ii
working for the last 3 years in R.A.F. Sharjah* I an working in
Sharjah for tie last o years . ^ brof ha-.n-l % J.lao
worked as baloon-man in yet office Sharjah for 3 years,previous
to his employment wath the R*A*F* *y family was at Jashk* A'y
father-in-law at Jashk, Karimdad Shahdad, requested one Ibrahim
l£ir Shahi, a Persian Subject, to take my wife with two daughters
to Sharjah* It vriie about 4 years ago* I had no knowledge that
Ibrahim bin Ulr Shahi was bringing rry fmily • About six months
after I learnt that Ibrahim had taken my family somewhere else and
sold thorn* For three years I kept making inquiries but could not
find any ciu#* 4 i>*» momtns ago one, Ahmad Shall Baluchi, now living
at Suwalq, cam^ to ^harj&h and told 'jo th^t Ibrahim Mircnahi bad
taken my family to Suwuiq from where he had taken them to ^arah
and sold them*
Accompanied by haluchf fi-wigwi Abmad Shall, no’v living at
Suwaiq, «e reached C^rai* ce *■ day* after Ramadhan* After inquiries
we found tliat ny ••ift ( Fatj mah bint Karimdad J^wc daughters
(Klxairak age 10 >c-ars and oharil'ah 4 years) had been sold by
Ibrahim Mirshahi* bold the mother and the younger daughter
to ^JB.aid bin Habiah al-Msakiri , anu sold the elder uau-;ther
to Zuvrainah bint kasud bin i»ashio al-husakirioh, and that he
himself/left fer Smaiq, Betinah# But we could only f nc h ha Irak
^ .^^JJAwith Zuwaiiiah whose namylwewf*ebangud to Zainab* I met ay daughter
and asked her whore were her mother end her sister* £>he
replied In Arabic that ilumaId nad resold them a few days ago* After
innuirie:? ir barah »e found that they had been sold to b&ifo bin
kohammad al-^aluchi, rfho Ixad tAk«ii to drakl near Braimi*
met Sluiikh has at bin All al-hujakiri and invoked his assists ce by
appealing to his humanitarian susceptiblities but he declined to help
but gave us a letter addressed to the Ir-ain* **c readied Ile^a and
put our case before the Inan yha pro®;ssed tc make inquiries and
asked us to wait* Aft of twenty days the gave us a letter in the
name of •-'i.ajkh Hsshid Baluchi ct Uraki, where/^ve had.ho .rd^my wife
and younger daughtor ere* a could not find the Bidflkh there^
but met his Agent Abdullah,bte*ThA Agent told us that nty wife
^ had been bought by the slave of Shaikii Rashid*® son, Said bin Rashid.
Shaikh oaicl admitted tiiat his slave had bought my w.fe and daughter
at $ 470/-“ but that ho Imair mu3t pay the amount before they could
be freed• ha wrote a refly tc gain's letter and handed it to us.
We returned from Urak.1 to ®inia and presented the letter to the
I:nam* He read he letter and ©»4UA/v4£ei never spoke a or*d. We
waited for It** ‘s rsply. After soaetiaids hj gave ua m letter in
/Cfp^* 4^1 tae nrne of biiaiith *ms*fa lonara.ad bin iiamudah al-.Vur akjriXusking
f > him not to lot ny ildor daughter pass into the hands of any other
ran* ±hon * :e reached /arah end :ave I^at* 3 letter to * i chamtad bin
famudah* ^ du net iUiiLe anv reply to us* paving been disapprinted
and finding our., selves irp of ioai.th we dec ded to reach
huscat and .Lake cur coir plaint to the Consul as -ell s® present
the latter issued to my brother^n-icjv b.- the i*/•?* at ^aiirajah*
It is nc* 4 months t n*v f wo dering in uca^rts, along
with r.y brotnar-iil^lav 9 ^ad ^ohAMaMU^ Pe# tihm .lint AwmimtMs. me k **l
walkod all the time on foot. 1© have sown our children being used
as slaves but have not been allowed to meet them. If we had sufficient
money it would have bean possible to buy back thwir freedom* But
we are poor 'tamr iabcurex*, -itrent -ufficiant money to pay for
our food oven*
V* want to add her** that Ibrahim wiirshahi is now living at
Kalba* He l®**regular kidnapper and is absconing from the Persia*.
L.T.I. of All bln Mohammad and]Dad ! ohaucad.

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The file contains correspondence related to two manumission cases originating with the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Muscat. Case number 1 is a straightforward case (folios 6-12) involving a male slave who has absconded to Muscat, and includes a copy of the manumission statement sent by the Muscat Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for approval (folio 8). Case number 2 involves the abduction of a woman and two daughters by a Kalba inhabitant (folios 13-30). Correspondence relayed from the Bahrain 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crabshaw Galloway) to the Shaikh of Kalba via the Sharjah Agent seeks to recover sufficient finance from the alleged kidnapper to enable the relatives of the abducted women to buy their freedom. As the alleged kidnapper has moved to Fujairah and is described by the Shaikh of Fujairah as being in 'bad financial circumstances', the Bahrain Agent requests that the Shaikh of Fujairah bear the costs for securing the release of the kidnapped women (folios 22).

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1 file (31 folios)
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The file is arranged by slavery case, and contains two cases. Case number 1 starts on folio 6, while case number 2 begins on folios 13. Folios 1-5 are reserved for index pages, with folio 2 listing the names of the slaves involved in the two cases in the file. Within each case, correspondence has been arranged in chronological order.

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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 31; 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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