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‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’ [191r] (394/632)
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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Die IvesideiiOy Agent has "been asked to report result of ills
enquires with regard to Doth the AMullahs.
(11) On 23rd April 1928
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 reported that
two Baluchis from Muscat had been arrested while endeavour
ing to barter two hegger Indians to Bedouins. Enquires
showed that the two persons helonged to Muscat and were-.not
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Persians. They originally were Jedghas of Kuchatl. Indians
have been repatriated and 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.
asked to send
the two delinquents^ to
political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Muscat who has been
asked to /have these two men punished suitably for their
of
“fence *
(13) In April 1928 a certain Ghulam son of
BiJlasaz of iinah, aged 17, took refuge with the assistant
of 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 at Dubai• The youth
been kid-t
V
napped by 12 Bashakirdis, under
Bassan bhah Baluchi of Kharawan. I
Ali, and sold to
brought to Debai
for sale but he escaped. 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 has been
to repatriate the youth and His Majesty's Consul and . .
Assistant to the Resident f Bandar Abbas has also been asked
to bring the fact to the notice of the local authorities
with a view of their taking suitable action,
( 13 ) Twenty one relations of B&l&htiin bin Kamal Baluch
of Jask were kidnapped in 1924 and nine of them traced wo
Batinah. Five- have so far been recovered, one died,
uhaiamed son of Jan Mohamnied son—in**law of oalahdin, whose
is
?rife and child have lately been recovered,^at present In
Unseat. This case shows so fully the conditions of the trad#
and the methods used that I have made a
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report of
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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.
- 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’
- Pages
- 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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