Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia
IOR/L/PS/18/B2
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The record is made up of 1 file, 6 items (29 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1868-24 Jul 1868. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Six memoranda pertaining to British handling of relations between Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia. The authors are all connected to the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , in London, mostly members of the Council of India. Some seem to be written independently, others in response to earlier memoranda. All documents cover some or all of the following matters:
- The $40,000 annual subsidy that Muscat receives from Zanzibar;
- The murder of Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Sa‘īd, Sultan of Muscat, by his son, Sālim bin Thuwaynī Āl Sa‘īd, who subsequently made himself Sultan;
- The East African slave trade;
- Persia's ambitions for a naval presence in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- Measures to police the Gulf;
- The lease of Bandar Abbas from Persia by Muscat;
- How the region should be administered: to what authority - Foreign Office or Government of India - are the various offices responsible to.
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- 1 file, 6 items (29 folios)
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- 6 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/110 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/224 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/38 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/48 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/52 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/6
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This collection of six memoranda on the same subject are arranged more or less in chronological order. They are listed collectively as item 2 on the printed Table of Contents at the front of the volume (folio 5).
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Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at f 18, and terminates at f 46, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present between ff 18-46; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and won't be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- English in Latin script
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B2
- Date(s)
- 1 Jul 1868-24 Jul 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/1
- Title
- 'Zanzibar, Muscat, and Persia. Memorandum by Political Secretary'
- Pages
- 18r:20v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/2
- Title
- 'Memorandum by Captain Eastwick'
- Pages
- 21r:25v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/3
- Title
- 'Memorandum on the Drafts of Despatches regarding the Affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar'
- Pages
- 26r:37v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/4
- Title
- 'Persian Gulf; Muscat and Zanzibar'
- Pages
- 38r:41v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/5
- Title
- 'Zanzibar, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf'
- Pages
- 42r:45v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B2/6
- Title
- 'Zanzibar and Muscat'
- Pages
- 46r:46v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence