The letters concern the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] and, in particular, a new Act passed by the British Parliament relating to the trade, as well as reports on the trade being carried out in numerous places in and around the Persian Gulf. The first letter is dated 31 March 1849. En...
‘Persian Gulf. Slave Trade. Importation of Slaves into Rassel Khyma and Sharga, by the subjects of Shekh Sultan bin Suggur.~’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which are enclosures to an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 March 1849. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2343/123024. The item r...
‘Aden. Judda- Alleged sale of certain female slaves by Hadje Rujub Ali Heeratee, a shopkeeper of Bombay at.~’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which are enclosures to an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 3 October 1849. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2343/123024. The item ...
‘Kutch. Purchase of Sedee females at Muscat by Natives of-’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Government of Bombay Political Consultation, 8 July 1849. The item relates to the deposition of Rehun Toolah [Raḥmat Allāh], a mussulman [Muslim] inhabitant of Cutch [Kachchh], in ...
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/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Residen...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The main correspondents are the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; Meerza Mahmood [M...
The item contains two Political Letters and one extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. It is the first in a series of five items relating to the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] in the Persian Gulf and on the Arabian Peni...
‘Judda. Alleged Sale of Certain female Slaves by a Shop Keeper Resident at Bombay at- named Hajee Rujub Ali Haratie~’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 January 1850, and found at IOR/F/4/2442/134094. It is the second in a series of five items re...
‘Judda ~Slave Trade~ Relative to the alleged sale at Judda, of certain female slaves by a shopkeeper of Bombay.~’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 October 1851 and found at IOR/F/4/2442/134094. It is the third in a series of five items rela...
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 1 October 1851 and found at IOR/F/4/2442/134094. Further enclosures can be found at IOR/F/4/2442...