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‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’ [92r] (196/632)
The record is made up of 1 volume (312 folios). It was created in 6 Jan 1927-3 Jan 1930. 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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with regard to the hoy who was brought from bu Dhabi
■fizh'rr
and we spoke with him we beg to state that x&X
as the Arabs have maltreated and threatened•him he is
afraid to say the truth. The Arabs have told him to say
. , . •D-inr.vi A ei GO v'dina i.0 letters which the Hindus
that he is a Balucni-. ru^cu-
wrote to you and us the boy does not admit ovine to the
threatening of the Arabs to him. The hoy had been sold as a
slave and you will certainly not return him to the Aral
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We have reportea the raa u uer uo
, . u t r -n n , o nonsul General at Bushire • The hoy
Karachi anu li.h.ii s ^^- 1 ° Ul - L
t • - - a u. 1,-1 r . n (T-' n o <^x C 'P TV i r iV 0 B11 VB. G1 OD.
-i -i -i ~ 4 -n xCn y*p o I'l i nnr Diie ne O'-j. j ^
mav be called to hard-oiix .
may be made from him there.
So understand that you intend to go to Ras ul Ate msh
we have written to the Bunnias at Abu Dhabi to send one of
the Bunnias v.ho have seen the boys at that fD-'.ce ln or '- er
to see him whether the present hoy is the same one whom they
have seen at Abu Dhabi or the Arabs have kept the boy at
;bu Dhabi and have sent another one m his gls.ee. It
u 0 u i vhaimsh-please instruct your agent to
v:ant to go to Ras u± anaxi-icxj.^ ^
.a a whenever a man comes from Abu -ha ox
show the boy to us v.nenevtx -
so that we may enquire into the laamimr.
- 11r -v vourself told us the other day
Yusuf bin Abaullah ana youxos
i • -r informed you that they have circumcised
that the Arabs have mi or me a ^ou w ^
„ rnvrole'-Aon a few days ago and sent
an Indian boy of dark comg-U , - wn
. . Wp rpouest you to send for the boy
him to Abu Dhabi. V/e requeoi yuu
r i -] -i <o r.\ p. \j out B.in *
so that we may make enquiries -
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Letter
0 . 425 , dated the
19th Bafar 154-6 (17-6-27)
1
rom the Resic
Isncy Agent, Shargah,
to the Kinexus oi jjehui
a p
rx • w •
I received your letter and noted its contents.
.. tllo -bov who was, as you mentioned, tracea by the
* 3 re par as riie bu j
Bun„ia ( of.Abu Dhabi, I as . ar bin laid to send
to me and the latter sent him with Ibalai bin ,.buull<.h.
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- Content
Correspondence in the first part of the volume relates to specific cases of the kidnapping of boys from Baluchistan/India to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the efforts of 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. and Political Agents to locate, retrieve and repatriate them. Reference is made to a court case in Karachi, in which witness testimonies reveal the extent of the slave trade across the Gulf of Oman (folios 107-108), and the numbers of slaves on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , with up to 1,500 claimed to be in Dubai.
The volume broadens in scope, reflecting the British Government’s concerns about the extent of the slave trade from Persia/Baluchistan. There are detailed reports made in 1929 on the extent and nature of slavery in the Gulf region, specifically in Kuwait (folios 198-204, 215-216), Qatar (folios 220-223), the Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (folios 208-209), and Muscat (folios 242-260). The last of these reports is compiled by Bertram Thomas, then Wazir Minister. [Finance Minister] for the State of Muscat, and focuses on the slave trade in the Al-Batinah region of Oman. The report includes a detailed account of slavery and the pearl diving industry, maps of slave trade routes across the Gulf of Oman and on the Al-Batinah coast, and the names of known slave dealers in the region.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (312 folios)
- Arrangement
Correspondence contained in the file compiled in a rough chronological order, from earliest at the front to most recent at the rear. f.2 is a handwritten index that lists the high-level contents of the file, organised into either specific reports or broad themes covering extensive amounts of correspondence. The numbering system used by this contents page refers to the earlier foliation system using uncircled numbers.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 307; 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.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.The volume contains three foliation anomalies, ff 2a, 2b and 233a.
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- Title
- ‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:2v, 2ar:2bv, 3r:18v, 23r:26v, 30r:30v, 34r:58v, 60r:85v, 89r:89v, 92r:95v, 97r:100v, 104r:106v, 108r:229v, 231r:231v, 233ar:233av, 233r:234v, 236r:241v, 259r:259v, 261r:282v, 287r:307v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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