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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [172] (214/733)
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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MUSK AT.
of Shaikh Suggur, the Chief of the Beni Jansannee Arabs, who were
at war with the Imaum, and supposed to be in the interest of his elder
brother, the deposed Prince of Oman.
22. The King of Persia, Baba Khan, who had recently succeeded
to the throne, reverting to the grounds of offence that subsisted against
the Imaum of Muskat, issued orders to the Shaikh of Bushire, direct
ing the immediate equipment of a considerable land force, to be
embarked on a fleet at Bussora, which was to co-operate in an attack
on Muskat.
23. Our policy being at this period actively directed to counteract
the intrigues of Buonaparte, in Persia and in the Gulf, for the purpose
of prosecuting his views on India, suspicions were entertained that the
Government of Muskat was more disposed to an alliance with the
French than with the British, a commercial intercourse which the
Imaum carried on with the Mauritius bringing him in constant com
munication with the former power.
24. It being on these grounds deemed expedient to form a connec
tion with Muskat, Mehedi AH Khan, who was appointed Resident at
Bushire, was ordered to touch at the former port on his way to his
station, and, in pursuance of instructions for that purpose, concluded
an agreement with the Imaum, dated the 12th October 1798, the object of
which was to exclude the French and Dutch from having any
factory
An East India Company trading post.
within his territories, or at Gombroon, to prevent the ships of the
former nation entering the cove, and to dismiss the French who at the
time were in his service.
25. At the close of the year, we find the Imaum of Muskat
threatening Bussora on account of some ancient claims on the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of
Bagdad, and in order to enable h.im the more effectually to prosecute
his hostile intentions, the Imaum negotiated a peace with his formid
able enemy the Joasmee Chief.
26. The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
remonstrated on this occasion against the conduct of
the Imaum, observing that whilst the Beni
a. d . 1/98. ' . . , . .
L ttoobee Arabs were assisting him in an attack
they meditated on Kateef and the Wahabee power, the former should
seize, at a period, moreover, when the French were invading Egypt, that
opportunity to carry on hostilities against their allies and dependents
the Uttoobees (between whom and the people of Muskat there existed
some differences), a conduct on the part of the Imaum which coun
teracted the expedition, and deprived it of the assistance which would
otherwise be received from the marine force of those Arabs. The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
expressed an anxious wish that two of the Company's cruisers
might be ordered immediately to Bussora, for the purpose of acting in
concert with his fleet.
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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)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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