IOR/F/4/2131/101199

This item consists of copies of political letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is the first in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101204, IOR/F/4/2131/101205, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101208, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101210, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212, and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).

The item concerns:

• The seizure by Humud bin Mujedel [Ḥamad bin Majdal], Chief of the Ameer al-[‘Amāyir] Tribe of a boat from Karrak [Jazireh-ye Khark] laden with wheat, and British attempts to recover compensation from him
• Humud bin Majdal’s alliance with Sheik Mahomed bin Kaleefa [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Shaikh of Bahrain
• Sheik Mahomed bin Kaleefa’s blockade of Wahabee [Wahhābi] ports
• A tour of the Arabian coast by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf
• The movements of Saed bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] and Wahabee relations with the Government of Muscat
• The movements of the Honourable Company’s ships Pilot and Fox
• A prohibition by the Government of Fars on British subjects exporting animals from Bushire [Bushehr] without a permit
• The appointment of Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājī Ya‘qūb] as a pilot
• The wreck of the Honourable Company’s ship Emily
• The alleged fraud cases of the Narrayen Persaad [Nārayaṇa Parsād] and Mary Mullaby
• The murder of Sheik Kuleefa bin Sackboot [Shaikh Khalīfah bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Nahyān], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], and his brother Sooltan bin Sackboot [Shaikh Sultān bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Nahyān], by Essai bin Khalid [‘Īsá bin Khālid Āl Bū Falāḥ], and Essai bin Khalid’s subsequent death on the orders of Saeed been Thanoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān].

The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171’.