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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [154] (196/733)
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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154 WAHABEES.
Date.
Occurrences.
tents, baggage, camels, and cattle falling into the hands
of the enemy.
a. d . 1830 The Wahabees occupy Lahsa without resistance.
Kateef also surrenders. The Beni Khalid Shaikhs are thus
expelled from their hereditary dominions.
Toorkey had agreed and continued to pay a small annual
tribute to Mahomed Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who approves of his proceed
ings.
Toorkey establishes himself at Deriah, and governs with
great prudence and moderation.
1831 The Imaum, in the hope of forwarding his views upon
Bahrein, tenders submission to Fysul, and promises tribute.
The Bahrein Chiefs, to counteract the Imaum's designs,
are induced to adopt a similar course : thus the whole of
the Arabian Coast from Ras-ool-Hud to Koweit, with the
exception of Aboothabee, became tributary to the Wa
habees.
The Wahabee ruler intimates to the Governor of Bombay,
through Shaikh Rashid bin Humeed of Ejman, his desire
to be on the same friendly footing as that formerly existing
between the British Government and his ancestor Saood.
A friendly but general reply is returned, through the
Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
1831-32 Musharee, a relative of the Wahabee ruler, Toorkey bin
Saood, rebels against his authority, and joins the Amayir
and Beni Khalid Tribes, who had refused to acknowledge
his supremacy. Hostilities continue between the Wahabees
and Bahrein, the chief of which island blockades Kateef 7
Sohat, and Ajeer.
1833 The Wahabee ruler's influence established throughout the
coast. He begins to levy tribute, but will not countenance
lawless proceedings, and opposes the renewal of piracy,
contrary to the expectation of the Joasmees, who had in
this idea hailed the re-establishment of his authority.
The demand for redress upon the Joasmee Chief directly, by the
British Government, on account of a piracy committed by his
subjects, offends the Wahabee Agentin Oman, Abdool Azeez,
who addresses an intemperate letter to the British Native
Agent at Shargah, claiming for his master, as being the
ruler of the country, whose authority had been acknow-
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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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