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'Status of Basidu' [36r] (71/92)
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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25.
should be taken to avoid pronouncing an opinion on any
claim which the Imam of Muscat might possess to Kishm.
35, These views were approved "by the Government
of India, but owing to a sudden change of atmosphere
at Tehran, which led the Charge d'Affaires to ask for
Lor,i. his passports, action was not taken on them; and rumours
1944.
that the Shah had demanded a substantial Increase in the
rent payable by Muscat for Bunder Abbas and its dependencies
(including Kishm) led to steps being taken to reinfoirce the
garrison of Basidu - steps countermanded in June 1822 on
the restoration of good relations with the Shah, but too
late to prevent the Charge d'Affaires from acting on
instructions to notify them to the Persian Government,
36, On 1st September 1822 Sir H. Willock
accordingly informed the Persian Government that it had
been found necessary to augment the detachment on the
island of Kishm as a temporary and precautionary measure
Precis
S,284. and received a reply in general terms.
36A, T .7hile in the circumstances described above,
Basidu was evacuated by British troops in February 1822,
it proved impossible to secure an equally convenient
naval station in the Gulf. Basidu was accordingly
P.G.13
p.118. reoccupied by H.M.G. in 1823, from which year until 1878
it remained the headquarters of the British Naval Squadron
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. No protest against its reoccupation
appears at the time to have been made by Persia.
37, On 3rd September 1822 Captain Bruce, the
Resident/
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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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- 1r:46v
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