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'Status of Basidu' [18r] (35/92)
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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^ directed and of the ultimate plan which wejc on template for
the permanent suppression of piracy, our president has
addressed a letter to Mr.Willock, (Charge d'Afiaires at
Tehran) of which the enclosed is a copy, which we trust
will produce the effect of conciliating the Government of
Persia to the arrangements which we have submitted to your
consideration or to any other which Your Lordship may "be
pleased to prescribe, and in particular to our permanent
occupation of Kishma".
precis 16. The despatch of 15th December 1619 to the unarge
S 20 7
d'Affaires at Tehran, to which reference is made in the
i.1937. preceding paragraph, after explaining in some detail the
considerations weighing with the Local Government, added
•• 8, The Imam of Muscat having asserted a positive
claim to the sovereignty of the island of Kishma, this
Government has not hesitated in fixing upon that station
as a rendez-vous for the expedition. . The occupation the
British Government of a more commanding station in the Gulf
being considered to be indispensable to enaole us to
exercise a more immediate and efficient control over it
than can be done either from Bushire or Massora, the
possession of that island would be an important object
either permanently in full sovereignty, or temporarily
until the beneficial effects which the presence of a British
force in the vicinity of the piratical ports may be expected
to produce, in reforming their habits, may enaole us to
relinquish the possession. The latter expedient should in my
opinion be preferred only on a failure of obtaining the
cession of Kishma in perpetuity.
9. I entertain no doubt that the cession of Kishiia
might be obtained from the imam of Muscat provided his
Highness*s pretensions to it be indisputable, but I beiieve
that the sovereignty of the island was at one time claimea/
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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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