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'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1870' [84r] (174/798)
The record is made up of 1 volume (395 folios). It was created in Dec 1869-Dec 1870. It was written in English. 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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of ruler. Syud Nasir, a son of Syud Thoweynee by a Belooch con
cubine, managed to reach Gwadur by boat on 9th April, and, with
the populace on his side, turned oiit Syud Saif and usurped his
authority, intimating that he was prepared to do the same at Charbar.
The inclination of Azan was at once to resent this act of open defiance
by sending armed vessels against Gwaduf; but an interdict was put
on any vessel of war leaving the harbour. For the possession of
Charbar, overtures were made by various persons, including Syud
Nasir, to Deen Mahomed, of Dustyaree; but the latter settled all
claims by occupying it on his own account. Syud Nasir seems to
have gradually established himself at Gwadur, for, at the close of
June, he applied to Captain Ross for leave to cross the Gulf with a
force which was to operate against Muscat. He was told, in reply,
that such an undertaking could not possibly be allowed.
In April, Salim was still lingering on the Arab coast in the hope
that the Chiefs of Bahrein, Aboothabee, Shargah, and others would
unite with him. Siddeyree was pledged to help, and the arrangement,
as it then stood, was that Salim should proceed toRrymee, a Wahabee
outpost in the interior, and thence, accompanied by the Wahabee
Lieutenant, should move in the direction of one of the sections of the
Henavi tribe, from which he had received a pressing invitation to
return. But this plan had not long been decided when Siddeyree was
assassinated in Shargah at the instigation of Sheikh Salim, the Chief
of the place (see p. 277 of 1869). The ostensible reason for this deed
of violence was, that Siddeyree was intriguing to depose the Sheikh,
because he would not enter into amicable relations with him. By the
Wahabee’s death, Salim’s chance of success was much prejudiced.
He could excite no enthusiasm for his cause by his own exertions, had
not even the nucleus of an army, and consequently, could do nothing
but stay on at Deb aye.
From the time that Azan had been elected Imaum, Sheikh Saeed
bin Kulfan, one of the two high priests of the Henavies, and more
generally known as the Priest Khuleylee, had taken an important part
in the affairs of Oman. Hitherto he had been content to let his
influence be felt, whilst he himself remained in the background. But
henceforward he appears openly on the scene, and his authority
appears to be paramount in Muscat. His rule was simply one of
terror. Whom he would he imprisoned, and not satisfied with having
recourse to imprisonment, he loaded his victims with the heaviest
fetters, and, refusing all shelter, left many to die under the fierce heat
of a tropical sun. The Muthowas, his special followers, blustered to
their hearts’ content. Smoking and drinking were punished as the
gravest offences, music was prohibited, and a punctual attendance at
mosque made imperative. The belief w r as sedulously fostered by
Khuleylee himself that he had a divine mission. Whatever he could
effect by working on the superstitious fears of the wild Arabs was done
11603. 3 E
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Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the 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. from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1870. The letters are dated December 1869-December 1870. The abstracts each have one of the following titles:
- Abstracts of Secret Letters received from India
- Abstracts of Letters received from India
- Abstracts of Military Letters received from India
- Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar and Muscat
- Abstracts of Letters received from Aden
- Abstracts of Letters received from Muscat
- Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire [Bushehr]
- Abstracts of Letters received from Aden and Zanzibar
- Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire and Aden
- Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar and Aden.
Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence covers issues including:
- Pay, pensions, recruitment, and other personnel issues in the Indian Civil and Military establishments
- Public works, including: railways, including a proposed railway from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; roads; canals; irrigation; docks; and river embankments
- Revenue, expenditure, and taxation
- Land issues, including: the cultivation of cotton, cinchona, and silk; forestry; and coal mining
- Education
- Banking
- Telegraphy, including international telegraphic links to India
- Affairs concerning Princely States, including internal administration, debts, allowances, issues of succession, investment in railways, and territorial claims
- Issues around emigration from India to British and French colonies
- Legislative and judicial affairs, including the question of jurisdiction over British subjects in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- Military affairs, including the organisation and supply of military units and a proposed naval force for the Indian seas and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- Frontier affairs: relations with tribes on the Northwest and Northeast Frontiers and frontier raids
- Affairs in Persia [Iran], including: Persian claims to sovereignty over Bahrein [Bahrain] and objection to British actions in Bahrein; frontier disputes around Khelat [Kalat], Mekran [Makran], and Seistan [Sistan] and proposed arbitration of the Persian-Afghan border; anticipated food shortages and subsequent disturbances involving British subjects exporting grain from Bushire
- Affairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, including: the consolidation of and challenges to the rule of Syud Azan [Azzān bin Qays Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; debates around British policy towards Syud Azan; confrontation between Muscat and the Wahabees [Waḥabī movement]; the issue of the Zanzibar subsidy; and Syud Azan’s claims to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ‘Abbas], Gwadur [Gwadar], Charbar [Chabahar] and other territories on the Mekran Coast
- Affairs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including: the campaign of Colonel Lewis Pelly in Bahrein and the installation of Esau bin Ali [‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah] as Ruler; trade and shipping in the Gulf; the desire of the Shah of Persia for a naval presence in the Gulf; Dutch and Turkish [Ottoman] activity in the region; and tensions between Bahrein and the Wahabees, including Wahabee inroads in the Guttur peninsula [Qatar]
- Affairs in Affghanistan [Afghanistan], including relations with Bokhara [Emirate of Bukhara] and Russia
- Central Asian affairs, including the Russian advance in the region, trade and communication from India to Central Asia via Cashmere [Kashmir] and Ladak [Ladakh], and affairs in Eastern Turkestan [Xinjiang]
- Affairs in Zanzibar, including the slave trade, relations with Muscat, the death of Syud Majid [Mājid bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and the accession to the throne of Syud Burgash [Barghash bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd]
- Affairs in and around Aden Settlement, including: relations with neighbouring polities, including Lahej [Laḥij Sultanate], Houshebi [Ḥawshabī Sultanate], Fodtheli [Faḍlī Sultanate], and Kathiree [Kathīrī Sultanate]; the purchase of Little Aden; the defences of Aden; an attack on Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] from Aseer [‘Asir] and the threat to Lahej from the Zaidees [Zaidīs]
- Affairs in the Red Sea, including attempted French, Austrian, Turkish, and Egyptian inroads in the region
- Affairs in Burmah [Burma/Myanmar], Bhootan [Bhutan], and Nipal [Nepal].
The primary correspondents are:
- The Government of India
- The Viceroy and Governor-General of India
- The Resident at Aden
- 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- The 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. in Muscat
- The 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. in Zanzibar.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (395 folios)
- Arrangement
The abstracts are arranged in roughly chronological order. A detailed index of subjects, places and people mentioned in the correspondence is included on folios 384-393.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 395; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1870'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:116v, 119r:395v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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