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'Status of Basidu' [9r] (17/92)
The record is made up of 1 file (46 folios). It was created in 18 Oct 1933. 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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Bunder iJDbas and its dependencies, .including
specifically Kishm, in 1855 makes no reference
to the British station at Basidu, although certain
articles of the re-lease are so worded as to appear
as being inconsistent with the retention by HJUG-*
of military forces and stations in Basidu;
(b) the Treaty of Paris provides for the
evacuation by British troops in certain events which
come to pass of "all ports, places and is lands st
belonging to Persia. Basidu was not however
evacuated, nor does it appear that our failure
to evacuate led to any remonstrance from Persia.
(c) The telegraph agreement between HJI.Gr. and
Muscat of 1864, specifically saves the Title of H.M *.Gr. s
to Basidu J, that station having been freely granted to
the British Government by my late father.,... -
on behalf of himself, his heirs and successors".
(d) the re-lease of Bunder xxbbas of 1868
repeats and, if anything, emphasises the articles
in the lease of 1855 referred to above.,
13. It is noteworthy moreover that in the period
J.823-1928 not only does it appear that there was
no challenge even in general terms by Persia to our
special position or rights in Basidu but that we appear
in 1905 and again in 1930 to have referred without
contradiction to the concession as British territory
in communications to the local Persian customs
officials.
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This is a printed confidential memorandum by Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. , dated 18 Oct 1933 and revised 30 October 1933. It concerns details and relevant facts since 1720 with regards to the status of the British concession at Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] on the island of Kishm in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The focus of the memorandum is whether the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] in granting the British the island of Kishm in 1820 did so as sovereign of Kishm or in his capacity of a tenant of Persia.
The memorandum is divided into two parts: the first is entitled 'Status of Basidu' (folios 1-11) and the second is entitled 'Basidu. Historical Note 1720-1928' (folios 12-46). The first part includes the following sections: '1720-1794', '1794-1820', 'Correspondence of 1819 to 1822', 'Period 1823 to 1928', and 'Conclusion'. The second part includes the following sections: 'Period 1720 and 1820', 'Report, dated 14 August 1821, of Dr [Andrew] Jukes, Kishm, as to the origin of the connection of the Imams of Maskat [Muscat] with Kishm, Ormuz [Hormuz], Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ‘Abbās], and other parts of the Persian Coast near that place', and 'Period 1823 to 1928'.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first page, and terminates at the last page; 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.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Status of Basidu'
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- 1r:46v
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