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IOR/R/15/1/222
- Record Id:
- 040-000227663
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000227427
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x0000c3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100082376246.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/222
- Title:
- ‘File 5/191 II Individual slavery cases’
- Scope & Content:
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The volume contains correspondence related to individual cases of the enslavement and trade of Baluchis from the Makran coast and Karachi, to the Trucial and Oman Coast, and in particular to Dubai. The correspondence is predominantly between Government representatives in Karachi/Sind, the Persian Gulf Political Resident at Bushire (of which there were three incumbents during the period covered), and the native Residency Agent at Sharjah, ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif. The cases discussed touch upon British attempts to identify and recover Baluchis reportedly taken and transported to the Trucial Coast, repatriation measures, the terms of punishment for traders/kidnappers, and the expenses incurred at offering protection for recovered slaves.
Of particular interest in the file are reports on the slave trade between Baluchistan and the Gulf, 1923/24 (folios 98-114); correspondence between the native agent at Sharjah and the Trucial Coast shaikhs on slave trade (e.g. folios 361-362); and the Hindu community of Dubai’s efforts to take action against the trade of Hindu boys from Karachi (folio 364).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000227427
037-000227638
038-000227639
040-000227663 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/1 : Political Residency, Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/199-703 : Political Residency, Bushire: subject files
IOR/R/15/1/199-234 : File 5: Slave Trade
IOR/R/15/1/222 : ‘File 5/191 II Individual slavery cases’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0001]/036-000227427[0003]/037-000227638[0001]/038-000227639[0024]/040-000227663
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (397 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x0000c3
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1922
- End Date:
- 1926
- Date Range:
- 2 Aug 1922-17 Dec 1926
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 396; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-392; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence between ff 370-395, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.The file contains three foliation anomalies, ff 1A, 1B and 1C
Condition: There is some insect damage on the front cover and a small number of folios, but not sufficient to impair legibility.
- Former External References:
- A Series: 5/191 II
- Arrangement:
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Correspondence, bound roughly in chronological order, from earliest at front of volume to latest at rear.
- Administrative Context:
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The British Government had long-standing treaties with the Sheikhs of the Trucial Coast and Muscat dating back to the nineteenth century, promoting the suppression of the maritime slave trade [see Aitchison, Treaties and Engagements Relating to Arabia and the Persian Gulf, 1987]. Though these treaties had originally been set up to prevent the trade of slaves from Africa, the British Government deemed these treaties equally valid to the increase in the slave trade from the early 1920s from Baluchistan - specifically from both the British and Persian Makran coasts.
The increase in the trade in slaves from Baluchistan to the Arabian Coast was the subject of much debate amongst British Government officials, who blamed political and social instability in the Baluchistan/Makran region - the former supported in the trade of arms from the Arabian Peninsula and the latter caused by ongoing drought conditions and famine - to be sustaining a small, localised slave trade.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)