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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [6] (41/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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known how the Persian Monarch quashed this rebellion, and punished
its author. These, disturbances withdrew the attention of the Persians
from the affairs of Arabia, and made them neglect to keep up the gar
rison in Muskat.
At the period of Taki Khan's expedition into Oman, there was at
Sohar a governor of the name of Ahmed bin Sueed, a native of a
small town within the Imaum's dominions. This Ahmed, being a man
of ability and enterprise, and seeing that after the death of the two
Imaums he should be under the necessity of submitting to such potent
enemies as the Persians, made his peace with the invaders so ably that
Faki Khan confirmed him in his government.
During the civil wars in Persia, a Prince of Dhang, of the house of
Yaiabi, the Prince of Sir, and a nobleman named Bel Arrab, had shared
among themselves the spoils of the last Imaum ; Bel Arrab had even
assumed the title.
Ahmed, seizing the Persian officers in Muskat by surprise, forced the
garrison to surrender, and made himself master of the city, without any
0 U f T 0n r 0 blood - Gai ning to his interest the first Kadhi, who officiates
as Mufti in Oman, he obtained from him a decision that he, as the
deliverer of his country, deserved to be raised to the dignity of its
sovereign. In virtue of this decision, Ahmed was proclaimed, at
Muskat, Imaum of Oman.
A S soon as Imaum Bel Arrab heard this news, he prepared to attack
us rival, with an army of four or five thousand men. Ahmed, too weak
i resistance, retired into a fortress among the hills, in which he was
invested hy lus enemy, and would have been obliged to surrender
himself, had he not happily escaped in the disguise of a camel-driver
Being beloved in his former government, he found means to assemble
■ ill. hundreds of men, and with these marched against Bel Arrab
w lose army was still encamped among the hills. He divided his little
troops into detachments, who seized the passes of the valleys an d
sounded their trumpets. Bel Arrab, supposing himself to be drcum
alt; struck with a ^ ^
none of Oman, except a son of Imaum Murshid who ma le "
unsuccessful efforts to deprive him of the sovereign amhoTtv n T
withstanding these attempts, the Imaum yielded no to his •' l i
town of Nahhel, with the territory belonging to i 1 t ,1
two sons of the last Imaum of the ancient f-tmilv '
I've in a private station, but in circumstances so op,lnT"hT.I ^
were able to maintain three or four hundred slaves' The
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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