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1. IOR/F/4/1699/68463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1699/68463
Title:
Slave trade carried on between the ports of Cutch & Kattywar and those of Arabia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item consists primarily of copies of correspondence, minutes and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to the efforts of the Government of Bombay to suppress the slave trade o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1835-29 Mar 1837
Extent:
1 item (251 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2203/108158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2203/108158
Title:
‘Persian Gulf – Muscat. Expenses incurred by the Agent at – on account of a rescued slave – Vol: 25’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, British Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1847-30 Mar 1847
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/F/4/2235/112014

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2235/112014
Title:
Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2235/112011. It is the fourth in a series of five items on the Persian Gulf. The main c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1845-30 Dec 1847
Extent:
1 item (121 folios)

4. IOR/F/4/2302/118728

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2302/118728
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Proceedings of the Resident during his last annual Tour of the Arabian Coast – Vol: 2’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1848-24 Jul 1848
Extent:
1 item (19 folios)

5. IOR/F/4/2495/141330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2495/141330
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Slave Trade. Liberation of three female Slaves brought to Bahrein by Amulgavine vessels. – Vol: 2’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī J...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1852-31 Aug 1852
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

6. IOR/F/4/2495/141331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2495/141331
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Slave Trade. Liberation of two female Slaves brought to Bahrein by Amul Gavine vessels – Vol: 3’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Archibald Spens, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1852-3 Nov 1852
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

7. IOR/F/4/2495/141332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2495/141332
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Regarding the trade in slaves between Western India and the Persian Gulf Vol: 4’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major George LeGrand Jacob, Political Agent, Kutch [Kachchh]; Henry Bartle Frere, Commissioner...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1852-3 Dec 1852
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 303-470
Title:
Measures Adopted for Suppressing the 'Slave Trade'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 107 of 1847, dated 31 December 1847. The enclosures relate to British attempts to suppress the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people]....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1847
Extent:
1 item (168 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/C246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C246
Title:
Précis on slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1873-1905 (With a Retrospect into previous history from 1852) By J A Saldanha BA, LL B
Scope & Content:
This volume is a summary of events, treaties and correspondence about the suppression of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, curated by Jerome Anthony Saldanha, and printed in Simla in June 1906. The volume is marked as secret and divided into chapters: Measur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (63 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/138
Title:
Vol 186 1853/54 Bahrain; Arabian Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The letterbook is comprised of correspondence sent between the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Arnold Kemball, and the Chief Secretary of the Government in Bombay, Arthur Malet, relating to events at Bahrain (folios 1-61), on the Arabian Coast and Muscat (folios 63-256), and the slave trad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1853-13 Mar 1854
Extent:
2 volumes, 107 items (424 folios)