Zanzibar, Muscat, Persia and Arabia

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Six memoranda pertaining to British handling of relations between Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia. The authors are all connected to 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. , in London, mostly members of the Council of India. Some seem to be written independently, others in response to earlier memoranda. All documents cover some or all of the following matters:

• The $40,000 annual subsidy that Muscat receives from Zanzibar;
• The murder of Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Sa‘īd, Sultan of Muscat, by his son, Sālim bin Thuwaynī Āl Sa‘īd, who subsequently made himself Sultan;
• The East African slave trade;
• Persia's ambitions for a naval presence in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
• Measures to police the Gulf;
• The lease of Bandar Abbas from Persia by Muscat;
• How the region should be administered: to what authority - Foreign Office or Government of India - are the various offices responsible to.

Extent and format

1 file, 6 items (29 folios)

It is grouped into

'Zanzibar, Muscat, and Persia. Memorandum by Political Secretary'

6 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/1

'Memorandum by Captain Eastwick'

10 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/2

'Memorandum on the Drafts of Despatches regarding the Affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar'

24 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/3

'Persian Gulf; Muscat and Zanzibar'

8 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/4

'Zanzibar, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf'

8 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/5

'Zanzibar and Muscat'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/18/B2/6

Arrangement

This collection of six memoranda on the same subject are arranged more or less in chronological order. They are listed collectively as item 2 on the printed Table of Contents at the front of the volume (folio 5).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at f 18, and terminates at f 46, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present between ff 18-46; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and won't be found in the same position as the main sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/18/B2

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Jul 1868-24 Jul 1868 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Colonial administrationZanzibar subsidy

Places

PersiaZanzibarMuscat

People & organisations

Council of IndiaSultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd DynastyShah of Persia, Qajar dynastySultan of Zanzibar

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