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‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’ [185r] (382/632)
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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It will De noted that we have no treaty with
Kuwait on the subject of the slave trade.
In the accompanying memorandum Case Ho. IS is
interesting both on account of the magnitude of the dealing
and the methods by which it was carried out* I accordingly
O.uote it in detail.
In this instance one Salahuudin was sent to India
as a prisoner in connection with a gun-running case and then
went to Oharbar with his son-in-law, Muhammad, to earn a
living. On their return to their home they found that
on by- one of their relatives had been sold into slavery by
Kir Hot! Khan, one of the Persian Baluch chiefs' who receives
a subsidy from the Indo-European Telegraph Department for
guarding the line between Jask and Oharbar,
In 1924 Jalahuddin, his brother Ail Baksh and the
f
former’s son-in-law, Muhammad., began to come to the various
British Consulates and Agencies in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
attempt
ing to trace their relatives.
found that twelve of these had teen sold into
Persian Baluchistan and for these there was no help from us,
| I am informing the Legation at Tehran of the whereabouts of
[ these people. At the time the Persian writ aid not run any-
where in Persian Baluchistan and I doubt if they can do any
thing now but on the coast they are beginning to move a
little
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i however, were taken to/Batineh Coast
of Oman by a Persian Baluch and thence were carried to
Muscat and from that place distributed over the Trucial
Coast. Included In these nine were the wife and three sons
of Muhammad, who has spent the last five years attempting to
trace them. I am glad to say that after five years we have
in the last month been able to obtain the manumission of the
part3r anA t0 « ive th& women back to her husband, though in
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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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