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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [300] (342/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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301)
JOASMEES.
T he Joasmees are a race of Arabs descended from the inhabitants of
Nujd, and named Beni Nasir, as being on the left hand side of the
Caaba; and called also Beni Gafree. They have possessed the princi-
pality of Seer, in Oman, and been an independent tribe, from
the earliest ages. Their territory on the line of coast of that province
extends from Musseldom to Zobara, or the island of Shargah,
to the northward. That part of Oman contains many tribes, the
Shahee, Zoheree, Joasmee, Beni Kuttub, and Beni Naeem, &c.
The Beni Naeem was for many years the head tribe, but the
disturbances that followed the death of Nadir Shah having compelled
Moolla Ali Shah * the Governor of Ormus, Gom-
A. D. 1747. broon ) and M i na0) to call to his assistance
some Arab Tribes for the purpose of resisting the unjust demand of
tribute which every competitor for the throne of Persia preferred, with
out any consideration to its having been collected by his predecessor,
he fixed on Rashid bin Muttur bin Kasim, with whom he formed
alliances by marriage, and was enabled, from the vessels under his com
mand, to avail himself of their services whenever required.
2. The Kasimees, or, as we shall hereafter call them, the Joasmees,
retained the vessels occasionally sent for them, and being well paid for
their assistance, and having opportunities of procuring arms, they soon
acquired an ascendancy among their own tribes, and were enab e -to
take possession of the town of Kishm, and of Luft, and of Linga an
Shinas on the Persian main, and were exten
a. d . 1765. their conquests over all Moolla Ali s posses
sions, when their career was checked by Shaikh Abdoolla bin
who retook Ormus and Bunder Abbas from Moolla Hussein, and Kisnm
and Luft from "the Joasmees. The Joasmees remained passive wit in
their ports whilst Abdoolla lived, but on his death, his sons disagreeing
and their government becoming imbecile, the Joasmees reappeare i
the Gulf, plundering the weaker tribes.
* That monarch 's Duryah Beg (or Admiral) in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
t Appointed by Kureem Khan Governor of Ormus, Kishm, and Bunder A j as.
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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