IOR/F/4/2005/89514

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant Arnold Burrows Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India. It is the fifth in a series of six items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2005/89510, IOR/F/4/2005/89511, IOR/F/4/2005/89512, IOR/F/4/2005/89513, and IOR/F/4/2006/89515).

The item concerns:

• A dispute between Sultan bin Suggur of Russal Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Abdoolla bin Rashid of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu‘allā of Umm al-Qaywayn] over Abdoolla bin Rashid’s new fortification
• A projected attack on Bahrein [Bahrain] led by Essa bin Tureef [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ḥamad bin Ṭarīf Āl Bin ‘Alī al-‘Utbī] and Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah]
• The impossibility of Hajee Yacoob [Haji Ya‘qūb] holding the position of Persian Magistrate at Karrack [Khark/Kharg] and being the British Coal Agent there
• Fighting between Syed Hamood bin Azan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Chief of Sohar and the Naeem [al-Na‘īm] tribe
• The abolition of the British agency at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]
• The attempt of five passengers to seize control of a trading baghlah and their capture at Cheroo [Bandar-e Chiru]
• William Hayward becoming an apprentice at one of the Bombay Presidency hospitals.

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 612/43, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3902, Collection No 11’.