IOR/F/4/2050/93537

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the fifth in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93535, 93536, 93538, 93539, 93540, 93541, 93542, and 93543). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• The desire of Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], Suggur bin Sultan [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Sulṭān al-Qāsimī], and Muktoom bin Butye [Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh], to assist the sons of Abdullah bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah] in waging war against Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] in Bahrein [Bahrain]
• Abdullah bin Ahmed’s hopes of Persian [Iranian] assistance in attacking Bahrein
• The desire of Ameer Fysul bin Turkey [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turki bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd] to extend his influence and conquer Brymee [Al Buraymī]
• The peaceful resolution of the dispute between Sultan bin Suggur and Abdullah bin Rashid [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā]
• The intention of Esai bin Tarif [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ḥamad bin Tārif Āl bin Ṭarīf Āl Bin ‘Alī al-‘Utbī] to leave Kenn [Kish Island] and settle at Bahrein and the coast of Gutter [Qatar]
• The arrival of a detachment of Sirbaz [Sabāz, Persian infantry] on the island of Kharrack [Jazīreh-ye Khārk, also known as Khark, Kharg] and consequent abandonment of the island by the population
• Medical supplies to be sent to Captain Atkins Hamerton, Consul and Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat, based in Zanzibar.

The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Coll No [Collection Number] 1, Draft 558, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4291, [Season 18]44’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.