IOR/L/PS/6/540, Coll 11/1

This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 11 of 22 February 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of India Foreign Department's letter Political No. 165 of 22 November 1865 (dated as 23 November on the cover sheet for the collection) to the Secretary of State for India, received 27 December 1865, on the subject of differences between the Imam [Imām] of Muscat, Syud Thoweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and the Ameer of the Wahabees [Amīr of the Wahhābīs], Fysul bin Sa-ood [Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd, Amīr of Najd], which could possibly lead to hostilities between the two powers. The collection was compiled for information purposes for the Secretary of State for India to compose the answering Political Despatch.

The enclosed papers mainly consist of copies of correspondence. The main correspondents are the following: the Government of Bombay; the Political Agent, Muscat; and the Political Residency, Persian Gulf. Other correspondents include the Government of India Foreign Department and Syud Thoweynee. The papers also include an enclosed memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Resident in the Persian Gulf, on folios 529v-534.