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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [47v] (96/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. 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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G4 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGAKDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
always experienced their friendship towards me. I have now wrote a phirraan to
Ally Mahomed Caun, Governor of Bussorah, and have ordered him to behave in such a
manner towards you and your people that you may be entirely contented and carry on
your business to your satisfaction, both you and the people that are under you. 1 have
ordered that no person whatever shall molest them in any shape, that every one shall
behave towards them so that they may be free to carry on their business to their satis
faction. I have also wrote a phirman regarding the Jews and Armenians at Bussorah,
ordering that they shall be well treated; that except the head-money not a pence shall
be taken from them; and that if any of the Jews or Armenians want to go to any part
of the Gulf for the sake of trade, they shall have liberty to do so with the knowledge of
Coja Yacoob or Coja Aratoon. These orders, which I have given Ally Mahomed Caun,
must be obeyed by him, and I desire that you will always depend that my friendship
towards you is very great."
148. On the 6th May 1777 the Agent in Council at Bussorah
informed the Hon'ble the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
that they had received
information from Bagdad to the effect, that the Turks were making great
preparations for penetrating into Persia by five different ways as soon as
the season would admit; that the Pacha of Bagdad had received large
supplies of men and money from Constantinople, and intended shortly
marching against Bussorah. The inhabitants of Bussorah, it was stated
in the same letter, were looking forward with delight to the expected
approach of the Pacha's army in the hope of being restored to a milder
and more secure Government than the Persian rule.
149. On the 16th June 1777 the Agent in Council at Bussorah
received the following additional phirman from Curim Caun, Vakeel
of Persia;—
" You have desired some settled rule by which your nation may come and go and trade
to Bussorah. On account of the friendship which subsists between the English nation and
me, agreeable to your desire 1 have wrote a phirman to Ally Mahomed Caun, Governor
of Bussorah, and have ordered that the customs on the English goods, imported
and exported, shall be the same as in the time of the Mussaleemship of Soliman Aga,
not more and not less, and in every respect that your people shall be treated in the
same manner as they were at that time. With respect to the Jewish and Armenian
merchants residing at Bussorah, I have given orders to Ally Mahomed Caun that if
they want to go for trade near Bussorah, or far from Bussorah, if you desire that they
shall go, they must go, and that these orders must be obeyed. You must rest assured
that my friendship and favor towards you are very great. You must go according to
what I now write you, and give courage to your people; and if you desire any of the
merchants as above to go from Bussorah, you will inform Ally Mahomed Caun, that he
may not prevent them ; if you have any other business, write to me."
150. On the 2nd August 1778 this Government, under the au
thority contained in the following extract from a despatch from the
Hon'ble the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
, dated the 4th July of the preceding
year, directed the withdrawal of all the Company's servants from Bussorah,
with the exception of one, on whom it was resolved to bestow the appel
lation of Resident:—
"We have lately received such advices from Bussorah, dated the 24th January and
23rd February 1777, complaining much of the oppressions from the Persians on the
merchants and subjects, as give us very little prospect of the revival of trade there,
consequently an addition of servants and expenses would be only increasing the pre
sent burthen of that settlement, for which reason we now order that Mr. Moore be
admitted to a seat at the Board agreeable to his standing. We are very apprehensive
when the Persians find that the merchants and inhabitants have no more money
they will begin with our servants, which happened some years past in Persia, by which
the Company were very considerable sufferers. As the Agent and Council seemed to
think that the Persians would not permit them to leave the place, they applied to
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
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