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‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’ [190r] (392/632)
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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bin Ibraiiim ol . adaioh aged 30» divers wore going to'KaltJa
t-o meet relations, at Xhatmrab. and oowaiq. respectively. At
village Bathnah they were captured hy bedouins and taken to
camp in the interior of Bas-ul-Ehaimeh. Headman Ali I'in Saif
al Khateri took Khamis and Shamleh was given to Bedouins.
Village Bathnah is a dependency of the dhaikh of Fujairah.
All bin Saif is the hejd of the Khaw&tar trihe living in the
interior territory of Bas-ul-Khaimah. Shaiaheh fled and
informed the Chief of Has-ul-Khaiiaeh who informed the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent hut was afraid to render any help himself
for fear of annoying the Bedouins. The itesidency Agent with
the help of the Chiefs of Um-ul-Quwain and Hemriyyeh was
able to threaten Ali bin Saif and recover the Baluchi. Chief
of Bas-ul-Khaimah was warned, hut he has written to say telcfc
thaw he has no authority in the interior.
(9) On the 14th January 1028 a Baluoh reported to the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent, Shargah, that he had seen at Behai Baluch
women and children Brought to Abu Dhabi for sale, fh®
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent recovered two women and two children, (bahra
daughter of Ahmed of Dinah, aged 19, with a child, and Bihak
daughter of kuhammed Budhari, aged 27 and a child) from the
house of Bilal of lejd. The women had been kidnapped hy
Muhin bin Mubarak Baluchi, said to he well known in Mekran,
ana brought to Dehai for sale. The women have been repat
riated to Minab via Bandar Abbas, and Director,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Section, Indo-European Telegraph Department, Karachi has
been asked for do tails of Muhin bin
( 10 )
if
On 7th March 1928 a Baluchi woman Amnah daughter
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent at
27 took bast
Behai, fold by her former husband Mohammed to Abdullah bin
Mohammed bin Muhammad Da war livinj at Thanaad and final 1*
sold to Kuhammed bin Abdul Rahman al Oufaidi. As woman
preferred to remain in shargah and did not want to return
to lekran, she was given a Manumission Certificate.
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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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