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IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 520-547
- Record Id:
- 041-004072820
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100140075890.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000010
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 520-547
- Title:
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Persian Gulf Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 20 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.
The enclosed papers, dated between 25 June 1849 and 15 March 1850, concern the traffic and trade in enslaved peoples in the Persian Gulf. They comprise correspondence between Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Bushehr]; Commodore J P Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; Lieutenant Alan Hyde Gardner, Commanding East India Company Sloop, Elphinstone; Moollah Haussein [Mullā Ḥusayn], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Khoja Hiskarl [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf, elsewhere written as Hiskeel or Hiskale], Native Agent at Muscat; Major Atkins Hamerton, British Consul and East India Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imam [Imām] of Muscat and Zanzibar; William Taylour Thomson, British Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Minister in Tehran; Sheik Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], Ruler of Shargah; the Government of Bombay; and the Government of India.
The papers relate to the trafficking of enslaved peoples into Muscat, Bushire, and Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], and the discussion of what measures are to be taken.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539309
041-004072820 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/463 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 101
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 520-547 : Persian Gulf Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0101]/040-000539309[0019]/041-004072820
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (28 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000010
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1850
- End Date:
- 1850
- Date Range:
- 3 Apr 1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 20 of 1850
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)