IOR/F/4/2728/198374

This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 8 March 1858. The Political Letter appears in IOR/F/4/2728/198372. The enclosures are dated 9 September 1857-18 February 1858. It is the third in a series of ten items on the Persian Gulf.

The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Commander Felix Jones, Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājjī Ya‘qūb], British Agent at Sharga [Sharjah]; and Khojeh Hiskale [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat.

The item concerns intelligence provided by the British Agents at Sharga and Muscat of uprisings against Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘id Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Imam of Muscat, by his brother Syed Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘id Āl Bū Sa’īd] and a number of tribes in Batinah [Al Batinah]. Syed Soweynee sends forces to Shinas and Sohar [Suhar], before a peace is eventually mediated by Syed Mohomed bin Salim [Sayyid Muḥammad bin Sālim Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the nephew of the previous Imam. It is noted that several of the tribes of the Arabian coast gave support to Syed Soweynee.

The item contains a table of contents (f 1094), and the title page (f 1093) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘1230-/58’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 10 of 1858. Vol: 3’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘3’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘1’.