Sketch map attached to a report by Bertram Thomas related to the slave trade dated 23 August 1929. Shows Yal Sa'ad country with settlements labelled and boundaries indicated by red dotted lines.
Map of slave routes between Baluchistan and Trucial States
Scope & Content:
Sketch map attached to a report related to the slave trade by Bertram Thomas dated 23 August 1929. Shows sea and land routes of the Mekran Traffic with ports labelled; routes are depicted in detail on pages 4-5 of the report (folios 247-248).
‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the first part of the volume relates to specific cases of the kidnapping of boys from Baluchistan/India to the Trucial Coast, and the efforts of the Political Resident and Political Agents to locate, retrieve and repatriate them. Reference is made to a court case in Karachi, in...
