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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' [‎112r] (223/540)

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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Commands and Supercargoes belonging to English Vessels to reside and life
in the Factory An East India Company trading post. and eat at the Public Table, the Enorease and Decrease of that
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Article did not depend on the number of Company's servants but as we
thought the table expenses run high, they should only continue it to the end
of the month and allow every junior servant 40 Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. per Month, but the
Agent submitted his allowance to be settled by us. That we should observe
the great Danger in the Woollens was mostly in the Medleys, and which they
said had been so for many years and imagined that not only what was sent to
them was so spotted and mildened, but likewise what we received from Europe
that our Hon'ble Masters had been several times addressed on this subject, to
which they referred and mentioned every piece being examined by the Ware- Mr. Douglas,
house keeper previous to the delivery and his Eeport entered in their Diary. Satf 006 **
That agreeable to our Commands the Agent now proceeded to Bussorah and ^™g h h a a n Q and
should fully comply with our Commands and had delivered the charge over to
Mr. Lyster : That affairs were much the same when they last wrote us that
thro' Messengers had been frequently going and coming to and from Shyrash
affairs were not settled between Carem Oaun and Nassir Caun and Chat at their
place oppression went on, in its old Channel. That 100 Bales of Broad Cloth
were shipped on the Swallow for Bussorah and we would perceive by the
Commander's Letter she could not take in more. That their Remains of Broad
Cloth were 55 Bales and 5 pieces Medleys, 16 Bales and 2 pieces Drabs, 45
Bales and 2 pieces coarse, 18 Bales Middling, 6 Bales and 8 pieces Superfine,
21 Bales and 8 pieces fine, a bales and 8 pieces cased Medleys and 1 Bale
French Fabrich. That Nasser Oaun had not cleared any part of his Debt and Nasir Khan 's debts.
notwithstanding all his Promises they were dubious of him, and as this was the
time for collecting the annual Revenues of Tarrsun, and he did not put it in
way of payment, they should think they had some Grounds for their suspicions;
That the People of that Kingdom and its Coasts being of a bad a Disposition,
Europeans would find it difficult to live amongst them as formerly, unless
they were determined to resent affronts. That they continued to keep their
charges as low as possible, but from the Situation the Country was in at present
the found it impossible to reduce them, without requiring the Hon'ble
Company's Property, especially as they lived amongest People who only regarded
the present and has neither honour nor honesty, who kept troops at the expense
of the industrious and who paid no regard to the fair trade. That there want
of cash obliged them to take up 12,000 Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. from the Agent whom they had
given Bills on us for the same and that they had received 900 Maunds of wool
from Carmenia.
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Public Department Diary No. 37—1761.
Bombay Castle, 18th September 1761.[
Came in the Nancy Ketch John Oraggs Master from Muscat hy which Gombrooii, fetter
received a letter from Mr. Dymoke Lister at Gombroon dated the 11th May Moid., ai.
advising toat Jafler Oaun being informed the Arabs were making preparations

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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