‘File 5/191 II Individual slavery cases’ [‎172r] (356/804)

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Th« Raaidonoy Agent, Shargah
Tho Hon’bla 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. , Peraian Gulf
Ho.373 dated 7th October 1924.
I beg to state that on 27th September 1924 I received news
that 3 aedouina have imported a Baluchi girl from ^atinah for
sale and that they were in* the houae of a man named Saif bin
Ahmad, Shargah. I at once sent two Kidawis of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to the
house of the man where the girl was and they found them all
there. I at once wrote to Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad, Chief of
Shargah, to arrest the girl and the bedouins. When the Shaikh’s
man went to Saif’s house with my Fidawis they found that the
bedouins had ran away and Saif had taken the girl from them, xhe
shaikh’s man took the girl and brought her to the Shaikh. The
Shaikh sent her to the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. after two days.
On enquiry I found that the Bedouins were of Ban! Katab
tribesmen of the South and that there is a dispute between them
and Hamad bin Faisal, Wali of Sohar, for not treating then
hospitably and not giving then usual subsidy as was done by the
former officials in Sohar. For this reason the Bedouins have taken
the girl from a town of Batinah called 'Qasebi^at al Za’ab. The
Bedouins of the said tribe have for ^rly kidnapped two boys and
taken them to the southern town in the interior called Ibri.
I boo to forward herewith statement made by the girl Hertan
daughwr of Shanbed and her mother’s name is Shamsak; they are
all residing in (qasebi^ah. The Bedouins have kidnapped her from
there at night time. The girl begs that her parents may come to
Shargah to take her as she i i a minor. I m of opinion that a
Manumission Certificate may be issued for he ‘ and sent^me for
delivery to her an on arrival of her parents I will hand her
over to them.
Statement made by Hertan daughter of Shanbed Baluchi aged
about 11 years. Recorded on 27th Safar 1343 (=27/9,iR*).
I, my mother Shamsak and my father Shanbed are living in
Qasebiyat