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'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎77v] (154/540)

The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 1908. 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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76 •>•
LXII.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 25—1762.
Bombay Castle, June 12th, 1762.
Gombroon, L from. Received a letter from the Agent and Council at Gombroon dated 24«tli
February enclosing Duplicate of their last and acquainting us that some time
N *} ir r l ch ^' ( ? h,ef after the Mamoocjy's Departure, One
La", wtackg _ 0 f ' r
Gombroon. Hw • Nasseer Caun * bad come down there
oppremon.
and seized on Moola Ali Shaw, his Ship Eamily and all his valuable effects and
Factory An East India Company trading post. ! daily plundered all the wealthy inhabitants, extorting money from them by
Torture, and that one of them had died under their tortures a few days before.
That after Nasseer Caun had possessed himself of the Port, he made them a
visit at the Factory An East India Company trading post. where he professed a great deal of Friendship for them and
acquainted them, he would appoint any one Governour, whom they should
nominate which the Agent had evaded, as genteely as possible; That as he
acknowledged noSuperiour, they had been obliged to make him and his Officers
a present to the amount of 100 Tomaunds, and that tho' he had taken upwards
of 80 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. from the Factory An East India Company trading post. Banians, they thought it most advisable to say
nothing of it, as he had taken above six times that sum from the Dutch. That
from these instances of his opperession, they were afraid he might send to
borrow money ar goods of them before he went, when it would be to no purpose
to refuse him, unless they resolved to leave the Factory An East India Company trading post. , which would be
attended with a much greater loss as the goods in warehouse and on board the
Rose Galley, were more than any common ship could carry and that it would
be rash to attempt defending it against him who had all the country under his
Command and could soon bring them thro' want of water and Provisions to his
Own terms; That the kingdom was farther than ever from being under any
r egular Government, Every Province being under subiection to a dilferent
people, who are independent of one another, and that therefore they humbly
presume it would be more for the Hon'ble Company's interest to remove to one
of the adjacent Islands, such as Kishme or Angar, and beg leave to lay before
us the advantages that would accrue therefrom. First that our property would
be secure without the expense of presents to every new Persian Governour,
which for many years past had amounted to a large sum annually. That that
security would bring many merchants to reside there under our protection, so
that the Customs alone would in a few years be sufficient to maintain a garri
son, and the profits on trade remain a clear gain, That they apprehend our
greatest objection to removing, would be the relinquishing the Factory An East India Company trading post. , afte r
its having cost so much money to which they answered that as it would require
two ships and 300 soldiers to settle them, they could easily with their assistance
remove all the usefull timber from thence which would be almost sufficient for
their new habitation. That a great expense in building Gombroon Factory An East India Company trading post.
was the bringing stones and mortar, from Kishme and Ormus, whereas it was
found by experience that bricks dried in the sun, answer as well and turn out
a great deal cheaper. That for many years past, the merchants had complained
of the great oppressions of the Government, which convinces them they would
come and settle under the Company's protection, and that then every petty
Governour, where they landed their goods, thro' the hopes of accumulating all
the profit to himself would treat them with great civility, whereas now the
shawbunders or customhouse Officers, without fixing any percentage on goods
exacted frequently 16 or 17 per cent. That this Difference to Merchants would
certainly establish the center of all Trade between Muscatt and Busaorah of
that Settlement,
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The volume is Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1908). The work was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha.

The volume consists of a summary of events in the history of the East India Company's involvement with Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , during the period 1600-1800, taken from various printed sources and the selections from the records of the Bombay Government as contained in the present volume (folios 8-39); followed by the selections themselves (folios 40-235); and eleven appendices containing farmans [firmans] and statements of farmans, reports on commerce with Persia and Arabia, a list of the East India Company's agents, and a glossary of words (folios 236-269).

A list of records from which the selections had been made appears on folio 4v.

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1 volume (269 folios)
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A summary of the selections appears between folios 8-39. Those printed in the volume are indicated in the summary with Roman numerals.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 270 on the last folio (there is no back cover). The numbers are written in pencil, are 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. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages.

Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence, numbered ii-lxiii (folios 4-39) and 2-459 (folios 40-269). These numbers appear at the top of each page.

Condition: the volume is largely disbound because of deterioration to the binding, and there is no back cover. There is also significant damage to the edges of the front cover and some of the folios at the beginning of the volume, but this has not led to any loss of text.

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