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‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’ [132r] (276/632)
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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iB * :
the hoys in the Persian territory* then no oi fence has been
committed within British territory and section 370 cannot
apply? thougn, if you hold that he has exported the boys from
Karachi that will bring the offence within the jurisdiction
of this Court.
So, as regards the actual offence, assuming that io was
committed, the question arises whether it was committed in
Persian territory or whether it is proved that the boys were
exported from Karachi as slaves. The suggestion of course
is that the boys were going to be sold as slaves but they they
were not actually sold until they had reached Lai Mahomed.
This question does not however appear to be very important,
because section 367 would apply without any particular
difficulty, (section 367 read and explained to the Jury).
As to ’•abduction" we must refer to section 362, which
runs as follows;- (read). So that if the accused alone or
with any one else induced the boys deceitfully to go out of
Karachi to Persia or to Arabia, knowing it to be likely that
he will be disposed of as a slave, he will be liable under
section 367. There has also been some discussion as to the
amount of evidence necessary to prove the case, and the
learned Public Prosecutor has read to you the definition of
"proof" on this point, it is only necessary to say that a
case must be proved beyond reasonable doubt-not any kind of
doubt, but reasonable doubt, and if you have a reasonable
doubt about the guilt of the accused, the accused is entitled
to the benefit of that reasonable doubt.
Well, coming now to the facts of the case, as has
already been pointed out, a considerable amount of the
prosectuion story is accepted by the offence, and there are
not really very many points in which the two stories differ.
There has been some evidence regarding the taking of the boys
to Dubai and some other places; that however has not very much
to do with the case, though it shows that there is a very
strang
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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.
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- 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.
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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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- ‘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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