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IOR/F/4/2191/107336
- Record Id:
- 041-003476566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001611979
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100098465849.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100133888778.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/F/4/2191/107336
- Title:
- Slave Trade.
- Scope & Content:
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The item consists of three letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 1 October 1846-31 March 1847. The letters refer to attempts to suppress the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] in the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat’s dominions and on the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf. Enclosures to these letters can be found at: IOR/F/4/2191/107337; IOR/F/4/2191/107338; IOR/F/4/2191/107339; and IOR/F/4/2191/107340. The item is the first in a series of five items on the ‘slave trade’.
Extracts of a letter from the Court of Directors to the Government of Bombay, dated 18 November 1846, are included.
Additionally, the item contains examples of two forms to be filled in by officers of the Company’s Indian Navy upon seizing vessels engaged in the ‘slave trade’.
The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5698, Draft 542/47, Collection Vol: 1’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000735919
036-000736052
040-001611979
041-003476566 - Is part of:
- IOR/F : Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India
IOR/F/4 : Board's Collections
IOR/F/4/2191 : Board's Collections Vol 2191 nos 107335 to 107454
IOR/F/4/2191/107336 : Slave Trade. - Hierarchy:
- 032-000735919[0004]/036-000736052[2195]/040-001611979[0002]/041-003476566
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/F
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (10 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100098465849.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1847
- Date Range:
- 1 Oct 1846-31 Mar 1847
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 71, and terminates at f 80, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the item. The item also contains a table of contents (f 72), noting ‘Page’, ‘Date’, ‘From’, ‘To’, ‘Date of Cons[ultation]’.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Court of Directors, East India Company, 1599-1858
Government of Bombay, 1662-1947
Imam of Oman, 750-2009 - Subjects:
- Slave trade
- Places:
- Arabian Peninsula, Asia
