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11. IOR/F/4/2729/198381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2729/198381
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Arrangements for placing 2 slave boys arrived in the Hon’ble Company’s Schooner “Constance” in the African Asylum.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 8 March 1858. The Political Letter appears in IOR/F/4/2728/198372. The enclosures are da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1858-23 Feb 1858
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

12. 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)

13. IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 66-84a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 66-84a
Title:
Political No. 206 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to Measures for the Suppression of the Slave-Trade and the General Condition of Affairs at Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 21 November 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 15 December 1873, forwarding copies of papers relating to the suppression of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1873-15 Dec 1873
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 392-396a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 392-396a
Title:
Political No. 228 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of a Paper Relating to the Visit of the Political Agent at Zanzibar to Mombassa
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26 December 1873 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 19 January 1874, forwarding copies of a paper by the Political Agent and Consul-Genera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Dec 1873-19 Jan 1874
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/6/115, ff 65-73a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/115, ff 65-73a
Title:
Political No. 8 of 1874, Forwarding Copies of Two Further Letters from the Political Agent, Zanzibar, Relating to his Visit to Mombassa, Melindi, and Lamo, and Reporting the Action Taken by the Government of India Thereon
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 9 January 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 2 February 1874, forwarding copies of two further letters from the Political Agent, Zanz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1874-2 Feb 1874
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 330-332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 330-332
Title:
Political No. 34 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of Papers Relating to the Seizure of the 'Slave Dhow' by the Governor of Lamo and the Investigation into the Subsequent Actions of the Commander of HMS Daphne
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 13 February 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 9 March 1874, forwarding a copy of papers relating to the investigation, by the Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1874-9 Mar 1874
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. IOR/R/15/1/139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/139
Title:
Vol 187 1853/54 Persia; Squadron
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into two sections. The first section (folios 2-21) consists of fourteen letters from Bushire to Tehran, two letters from Bushire to Baghdad and two letters from Tehran to Bushire. The letters from Bushire are written by Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1853-2 Dec 1853
Extent:
1 volume, 39 items (60 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/1/141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/141
Title:
Vol 192: Letters Outward (Squadron, Persian Gulf)
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of letters written by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]. The Resident at this time was Arnold Burrowes Kemball; the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1854-18 Dec 1854
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)