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‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’ [135v] (110/114)
The record is made up of 1 file (55 folios). It was created in 1872. 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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Slave Trade.
destruction of innocent dhows, which acts caused considerable hardship
and great irritation among the chiefs and all classes of the population on the
coast, seriously checked honest trade, and tended still more to drive the
native vessels to sail under the French flag.
124. P roclamation of R ao of K utch regabding nis subjects at
Z anzibar engaged in the S lave-trade.— In No. 213, dated 1st June 1869,
the Bombay Government reported that the Rao of Kutch had issued a pro
clamation addressed to the inhabitants of Kutch generally, but more parti
cularly to those trading with Zanzibar, and the Arabian and African coasts,
warning them against the penalties incurred by such of them as may be en
gaged in the slave-trade, an 1 saying that their claims and suits should be
settled by the British Government in the same way as if they were the sub
jects of the British Government.
When this proclamation was communicated to the Sultan, he at first refused
to allow the proclamation to be enforced, or to recognize as Kutchees under
British jurisdiction any but those who registered their names at the British
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
.
Dr. Kirk insisted on the acceptance of the terms of the proclamation,
• This matter had already been answered by the an ^ the Sultan yielded the point and
Governrrxent of india's letter of ISth July, approving wrote simply acknowledging the re-
Mr. Churchill s policy of allowing the Kutchees under • , i i •
His Highness's protection the possession of the slaves CCipt Ol the proclamation Without
^ Il0t traffi0 " its force, and asking that
. , . the minor questions* regarding our ju
risdiction over the limited number of Kutchees, who formerly enrolled their
names as under Arab protection, might be considered.
Dr. Kirk thought a great success had thereby been achieved, remarking—
. While the n itives of Kutch established in Zanzibar were under our sole protection and
juriMhction, we held the most wealthy and enterprising among the mercantile community,
and our infiueuce was in all matters paramount.
A tie: wards, as a settlement of certain vexed questions connected with the slave-trade,
each Kutchee was allowed to elect his protecting State, and His Highness, by holding forward
tie ra pnvi ege ot buying and selling slaves to all who did not register their names at the
Jknglish
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, secured every new arrival from Kutch to himself, and confidently looked
nrwar to t le time when British influence would be reduced to an equality with that of
ranee ant other foreign powers having no material stake in the country. During the pas -t
i«>ur years, registrations at the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
have become almost unknown."
125. L iberated S laves. T heir disposal and expenses.— The officer
in command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the east coast of Africa having
applied to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs through the Admiralty,
for information as to the condition and distribution of the slaves that had been
liberated at the Mauritius, the Seychelles, Aden, and Bombay, the Foreign
Oilice a.sked 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.
for the information. The call was passed on to the
ombay Government and the Resident at Aden, and the reply of the latter
showed that the slaves liberated at Aden were a cause of very great embarrass
ment to the authorities there, and were necessarily kept in circumstances which
mvolved^ considerable hardship to themselves.— {Political, A, January 1870,
, The Bombay Government also sent a return showing the following facts.
unng the previous five years, about three thousand slaves had been landed
an ibciatcd at Aden. Ot this number, 524 had been sent to Bombay, 143
102 '
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The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British Consul at Zanzibar, and Sir William Marcus Coghlan, relate to: the death in 1856 of the Sultan of Muscat Syed Saeed [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id] without a direct heir; the succession struggle between Syed Thoweynee [Thuwaynī bin Sa‘id al-Sa‘id] and Syed Majid [Sa‘id Majid bin Said al-Sa‘id]; British arbitration in the dispute; succession arrangements at Muscat and Zanzibar; the slave trade between Zanzibar and Muscat. The précis is organised into six chapters (labelled I to VI), as follows:
- I – Events preceding the arbitration by the Government of India;
- II – Arbitration of the Government of India;
- III – Proceedings subsequent to the arbitration relating to the question of subsidy;
- IV – Events at Zanzibar from the arbitration to the death of Syed Majid;
- V – Events in Zanzibar from the death of Syed Majid;
- VI – Slave Trade.
The contents page lists four appendices (labelled A to D) that are not included in this copy of the précis.
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- 1 file (55 folios)
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The correspondence contained in the précis is arranged in an approximate chronological order, with those of earliest date (1856) at the front, and those of latest date (1872) at the end. The correspondence is further arranged into six chapters labelled I to VI. Subheadings throughout the précis are numbered from 1 (for the first subheading in chapter I) to 131 (for the last subheading in chapter VI). A contents page (ff 82-84) lists the chapters, subheadings and subheading numbers. Note that a discrepancy appears between the subheading numbers and the subheading contents in chapter VI.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 81, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additonal foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 6-192; these numbers are also written in pencil but, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence 1-105.
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- ‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
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- 81r:137v
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