!['Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎33v] (68/226)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x00013b/IOR_L_PS_20_C30_0068.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎33v] (68/226)")
'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [33v] (68/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. 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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36 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
theirs, and the customs which from hence to Bagdad on woollens will turn out to them
about 13 per cent. We shall by this means free them of using the same method as we
do in India, the risque to be theirs; but we to deliver them free of all charges and
customs at Bagdad, which will, to be sure, extend our woollen trade considerably there,
and I hope entirely overset the Alleppo trade to that place, which I found was still
considerable on my arrival there, and I have accordingly now sold (100) one hundred
bales of coarse cloth at 7-4 mamodies per guz, and (30) thirty bales fine cloth at 17
mamodies per guz, to be cleared in four months from my arrival here, in which case to
allow a discount of six per cent., and if in six months, three per cent., and if longer
delayed, to be resold publicly on the proprietors' account and risque. The
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
on my
departure from Bagdad expressed the highest marks of content in this visit, and honored
me with very extraordinary compliments. He even favoured me with his own row galley
and two others to attend here, and here we were received by the Governor in a singularly
honorable manner, who is a new man, the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
having thought proper to change
the late one."
90. The phirman alluded to in the above extract was to the
following' effect:—
" To the Chief of the Siads, Tons, and Freeholders, our Aga, the
Mussaleem
During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra.
of Busso-
rah for the time being (whose state God increase). Be it known unto you that my commands
are as follow —In the city of our Great Sultan, called Bussorah, there is an English
Balias or Chief of the merchants, &c.; his nation being in peace with our high Port
(whose grandeur God continue everlastingly), therefore there is in his hands the high
and respectable capitulations of our lofty Port to which all submission must be paid,
and it behoves all men to obey the orders therein contained : Therefore in the manner
that it is commanded and ordered in said high capitulations, article by article,
whether regarding the customs, and all things relative thereto, or whether regarding
other matters, or whether the respecting, favouring, assisting, and protecting the said
English Balias and his effects agreeable to the said high capitulations, you must, as
ordered by our Great Sultan, in all things conform and pay obedience thereto. And you
must not in any the least respect depart from, or act contrary to, said respected capitula
tion. And this our Bourally or order I send you for this purpose, when it arrives you.
Be it known unto you, that it is by us directed that, conformable to said high capitula
tions which are the commands of our Great Sultan the English Balias, you are to aid,
assist, and protect, and in all other respects you are to pay obedience thereto, and from
the letter of said high capitulations you must not in any respect depart. And agree
able to this our order or Bourally you are commanded to act."
91. Mr. Shaw remained at Bagdad from the 15th June to the
latter end of August (1759), when he returned to Bussorah, and reached
that place the middle of September, " where ^ (Mr. Shaw stated in a
letter he wrote to the Hon^ble the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
on the 27th of the
following month)—
" I have the pleasure to find the Government entirely inclined to favour us; the
merchants and citizens seem also entirely attached to us, as well from the favour they
find we are in with the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, as upon account of several grievances they formerly
laboured under, which I have had the good fortune to get redressed by means of Your
Honors' influence with our
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
."
92. In a letter to the Agent in Council at Gombroon, dated the
26th August 1760, Mr. Shaw stated that the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had a short time
♦ A. D. 1759.
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
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