IOR/F/4/2302/118744

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Khojah Heskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf] British Agent at Muscat; and Mollah Houssin [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the eighteenth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• Reports of the defeat of a body of Wahabee [Wahhābī] troops sent by Saeed bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] under the command of Mahomed bin Syful Ujajee [Muḥammad bin Sayf al-‘Ajjājī] at the hands of Sheikh Syf bin Humood [Sayyid Syf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Chief of Sohar [Suhar]
• The resultant weakening of Wahabee [Second Saudi State] influence in Oman
• Alliances between shaikhs of the Gulf
• Reports concerning Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah], who is rumoured to be preparing to support Mahomed bin Syful Ujajee
• Reports concerning Sheikh Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi], who is rumoured to be preparing to attack Mahomed bin Syful Ujajee.

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 1 of No 144’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.