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'Status of Basidu' [1r] (1/92)
The record is made up of 1 file (46 folios). It was created in 18 Oct 1933. 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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t -n HOth October.
Confidential.
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SL^tns of Ba ajdii.
The Tieraorandum attached sets out in some detail
the relevant facts since 1720 in ^o far as they are on
record bearing on the status of the British concession at
Basidu in the Island of Kishm in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The
concession in question is held under a written grant of
1820 from the Imam of Muscat, at that period in effective
possession of Kii-hm. The essential point in issue is
whether the Imam in making the grant in question in 1820
did so as sovereign of Kishm or in his capacity as a
tenant of Persia.
2, Tne -natter was closely investigated in 1821,
by an officer specially deputed to the Persian G-ulf
consequent on Persian protests against the landing of a
British detachment in the Island of Ki~hm under the
authority granted by the Imam. Great difficulty was even
at that period experienced in reaching any positive
conclusion as to the strength or weakness of the Imam's
claims to sovereignty. The aifficulty in establishing
the true facts is hardly less to-day. A survev of the
correspondence as a whole and of the history of the
island of Kishm, in which Basidu is situated, in the
century preceding 1820 tends to suggest that the basis
for the Imam's claims is unsubstantial*
1780-1794.
3. According to Lorimer's Oazetteer of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, which is the accepted authority on the
history of the Grulf States, and which is based on
exhaustive local researches some 30 years ago by an officer
of the I.G«S. of great experience, it does not appear
that the Arabs of the Oman Coast were much in evidence
in/
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This is a printed confidential memorandum by Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. , dated 18 Oct 1933 and revised 30 October 1933. It concerns details and relevant facts since 1720 with regards to the status of the British concession at Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] on the island of Kishm in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The focus of the memorandum is whether the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] in granting the British the island of Kishm in 1820 did so as sovereign of Kishm or in his capacity of a tenant of Persia.
The memorandum is divided into two parts: the first is entitled 'Status of Basidu' (folios 1-11) and the second is entitled 'Basidu. Historical Note 1720-1928' (folios 12-46). The first part includes the following sections: '1720-1794', '1794-1820', 'Correspondence of 1819 to 1822', 'Period 1823 to 1928', and 'Conclusion'. The second part includes the following sections: 'Period 1720 and 1820', 'Report, dated 14 August 1821, of Dr [Andrew] Jukes, Kishm, as to the origin of the connection of the Imams of Maskat [Muscat] with Kishm, Ormuz [Hormuz], Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ‘Abbās], and other parts of the Persian Coast near that place', and 'Period 1823 to 1928'.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first page, and terminates at the last page; 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.
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