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1. IOR/R/15/1/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/202
Title:
‘File 5/104 II,III Miscellaneous slave trade correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and papers related to miscellaneous slave trade correspondence: Correspondence between the Deputy Political Resident and the Political Agent in Muscat (Major Lionel Haworth) relating to an incident in June 1917, in which a pearl diver sought refuge at the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1913-27 Jan 1935
Extent:

1 volume (77 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/214
Title:
‘File 5/187 I – Proclamation prohibiting slave trade’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of covering letters sent with copies of the 1873 Slave Trade Proclamation, which was reissued on an annual basis. The letters were sent by Bushire Political Residency staff to a range of British representatives around the Gulf, including the Political Agents (Bahrain, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, and Marathi
Date Range:
18 Jan 1913-31 Jan 1938
Extent:

One volume (158 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/225
Title:
File 5/193 I (B 23) Slavery in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to specific cases of slavery. The key correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf (a post occupied by six incumbents during the time frame covered), and Government of India and Foreign Office officials in Ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Apr 1924-12 Nov 1929
Extent:

1 volume (216 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/224
Title:
File 5/191 IV Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to instances of slavery on the Trucial Coast. Of the eleven subjects contained in the volume, the first seven relate to the kidnapping and enslavement of individuals within the Trucial Coast and Oman area, frequently by tribes from the interior. Cases ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1929-3 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 volume (338 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/200

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/200
Title:
‘File 5/65 I Question of disposal of emancipated slaves and proposal to check traffic between Muscat, Oman ports and Zanzibar’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between Government of India officials and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf, on the question of the disposal or repatriation of slaves manumitted in the Gulf region, in response to concerns from the Government of Bombay over the potential social conseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1889-14 Jul 1905
Extent:

1 volume (95 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199
Title:
‘File 5/6 I Brussels Conference and general rules and procedure on slave traffic’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence related to the distribution of the text of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 throughout the Persian Gulf region. The English version of the Act is on folios 32-37. William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Government of India in Bombay, sent Adelbert Talbot (Political ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1892-21 May 1925
Extent:

1 volume (137 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/211
Title:
File 5/168 VII Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains in excess of 120 manumission statements, taken down by the Residency Agent ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi) at Sharjah between July 1938 and June 1939. Correspondence accompanying the statements sent by al-Razzaq includes details of the appearance of slaves as an indication of possibl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1938-28 Jun 1939
Extent:

1 volume (340 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/223
Title:
File 5/191 III Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
Twenty cases relating to individuals and small groups, kidnapped or transported from Baluchistan or India, to the Trucial Coast, in particular Dubai. Some of the cases are straightforward and involve the appearance or retrieval of slaves in the Dubai area, often initiated by the Sharjah Residenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1927-21 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (435 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/201
Title:
‘File 5/74 Practice attributed to British authorities of surrendering fugitive slaves’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in Bushire (Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm J. Meade) and his assistant (John Gaskin), the Political Agent Muscat (Major Christopher Fagan, and from October 1899 Major Percy Cox), and staff of the Government of India. Corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1897-14 May 1900
Extent:

1 volume (65 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/212
Title:
File 5/168 VIII Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to in excess of 100 manumission requests heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). The manumission statements were sent to the Political Resident for reference purposes only, all decisions on manumission cases in Sharjah now bein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1939-13 Dec 1940
Extent:

1 volume (203 folios)