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'Muscat Rising, from April 1917 to January 1918 & resumed from April 1920 to Oct 1920' [75r] (160/558)
The record is made up of 1 volume (270 folios). It was created in 25 Apr 1917-26 Oct 1920. 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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Copy of a Confidential demi-official letter dated Simla the-„
the } 9>' June 1917, from the Hon'hle Mr. A.H, Grant, C .S. I.,C . I .R.,
ForeiCT Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and
Political Department, to Major L, Haworth, Political ^gent, Maskat.
Tou will have received oar telegram agreeing to your
proceeding to Karyat to meet Sheikh Isa provided the Admiral can
provide you with a ship of war pnd csn let it remain at Karyat
during the meeting. I trust that the Admiral will he ahle to
arrange this.
We hpve read with much interest your letters on the
subject of the Sfaskat situation generally end fully symprthise
with your desire to get mptters on a more satisfactory footing.
It is to he hoped that your meeting with Sheikh Isa, if it comes
off, msy bear fruit. But it seems to us that the whole position
is so confused and unsatisfactory that it is almost impossihle to
get it straightened out without more drrstic measures than
Government could possibly contemplate at present.
In one of your letters you suggest that you should be
allowed to come to Simlp in order that you might meet Sheikh Isa
thereafter with a more or less settled progranme. I mast however
ask you to rerlise that though we sympathise with your desire to
clear up the Maskat situation we cannot,with the grave and innumer
able preoccupations of the war, take up a more or less subsidiary
question of this kind in a conclusive manner at the present time.
We are confronted in many places with difficult tangles, such as
you are dealing with at Maskat, and our policy is necessarily one
of procrastination in such cases. We wish to avoid local
embarrassments wherever we can in order that we may concentrate
on the larger issues of the war. We are constrained to tide over
difficult situations as best we can and to accept temporary and
often unsatisfactory settlements rather than embark on conclusive
but embarrassing measures.
Itou will understand, therefore, that while we should
welcome any satisfactory steps towards the settlement of
the Ma skat problem which you can arrange with Sheikh Isa we do not
want
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Correspondence concerning the uprising of the tribes from the interior of Oman against the Sultan of Muscat [Taymūr bin Fayṣal]. Topics discussed include:
- A survey of causes and history of rebellion of the Omani tribes under their elected Imam until 1915;
- The Ibadhi sect of the Omanis.
- Agreements between the Sultan's government and the Bani Ghafir;
- The Indian Army garrison at Muscat and Muscat Levy Corps;
- Co-operation between Indian and Muscat Customs Departments;
- British ships at Muscat including HMS Britomart and HMS Clio;
- A report on the situation and requirements at Muscat by Major Lionel Berkely Haworth, October 1917;
- A statement showing the estimated income of the Sultan of Muscat and his recurrent expenditure together with a statement of his debts, 1917;
- Proposed meeting at Sib between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat and the sheikhs of Oman.
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- 1 volume (270 folios)
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There is an index page at the front of the file.
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Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the first cover and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. A second foliation sequence is also present between ff 4-269; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/1/436
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- 'Muscat Rising, from April 1917 to January 1918 & resumed from April 1920 to Oct 1920'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:54v, 55v:58v, 58Ar, 58Av, 59r:61v, 65v:69v, 71r:160v, 161v:198v, 198ar:198av, 199r:260v, 261v, 263r:271v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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