IOR/F/4/2550/149211

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the fifteenth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.

The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muskat [Muscat]; and Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar, chief of Rusulkhymah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah].

The item concerns:

• The efforts to obtain reparations for ships seized by the people of Charrack [Bandar-e Charak]
• The failure of an attempt by a group of men from the Tungistoon [Tungistan] tribe to rescue their chief, Bauker Khan [Bāqir Khān Tangistānī], who is being held prisoner in Bushire [Bushehr]
• The effects of the recent earthquake in Sheeraz [Shiraz], and the resignation of Feerooz Mirza [Fīrūz Mīrzā Nuṣrat-al-Dawlah, text includes multiple spellings], the Prince Governor of Fars
• A ‘piracy’ committed near to Zanzibar, and the question of whether Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar is liable to pay compensation.

The item contains a table of contents (f 635), and the title page (f 634) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 109 of 1853. Vol. 15’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘3’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.