IOR/F/4/2050/93539

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 seventh in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93535, 93536, 93537, 93538, 93540, 93541, 93542, and 93543). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• The strength and ambitions of Fysul bin Toorky [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turki bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]
• The movement of Esai bin Tarif [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ḥamad bin Ṭarīf Āl Bin ‘Alī al-‘Utbī] from Kenn [Kish Island] and to Biddah [Al Bidda]
• The possibility of restoring his property to Dhyee bin Azoon [Dhāḥī bin A‘ūn], after it was plundered at Monamah [Al-Manāmah]
• A dispute between Khaleefa bin Shakboot [Shaikh Khalīfah bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi] and Suggur bin Sultan [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Sulṭān al-Qāsimī of Sharjah], and the role played by Muktoom bin Butye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh of Dubai]
• Complaints made by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, former Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, against various officials in Bushire [Būshehr] and their resolution
• A dispute over whether Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] is subject to Persia [Iran] or the Ottoman Empire
• A list of the repairs due to the Residency in Bushire.

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’.