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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' [116r] (231/540)
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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153
CXVI-A.
Public Department Diary No. 38 of 1762.
Bombay Castle, 2nd Felruary 1762.
Translation of a letter from Sheikh Nasir of Bushire to the Governor of Bombay.
With the sincerest wishes for your Priendship I declare that the principal
Motive to my writing this letter# is to enquire after Your Honour's health,
and as I have always heard of Your Honour's good conduct^ I have enter
tained a regard for you in my bresl, for which reason I have made the first
advances and beseech Your Eriendship, some time ago I wrote a letter to Your
HonourWAvhich I never received any answer^ though I always expected and EngUsh^to ^ttw
^30 still except onelacquainting you t^atas our Friendship was sure and lasting^ Buahire
it would be proper to appoint the residence of the Agent for the English
Company to be at Bushire; I only desire to manifest my regard for the
Company's people : Now that Mr^ D^glas, Agen^for the English Company,
has been in his return from Bussorai^at Bushire/ when we met and consulted
together 11 have agreed sincerely, without dispute and with my free consent with
the said Gentleman that the Company's
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
be established at this place, as
it was formerly the goods of the English Company and those of their servants
shall be exempt from paying Customs, every Branch of Trade shall be carried on
as formerly. My wishes are for nothing else than the strengthening our Friend
ship, and acquaintance or for the Company's profit, because all their goods are
proper f (Sr this country. At present all the roads of Persia are by Bushire,
merchants come from both coasts, to trade at this Port, yet oa account of their
having no merchandize they go to other places and return to their own
countries through this port. Had the Company a
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
here, they would
enioy all the trade and dispose of all their goods, for thank God ta the Port of
Bushire is in entire security, quiet and flourishing, and the roads for the
Caravans are quite free from molestation. At present I have only thought
proper to put your Honour in mind of me and invite you by the blessings of
God bn the receipt of this letter, to accept my offers of service, and that you
will please to appoint one of the Company's Agents to reside at this place, to
carry on their Trade, with assurances that He may sell to^whom he will and
buv from whom he will, you may also be certain that the affairs shall be
carried on as you judge best for the Company's advantage. The desire of this
Friend is that your Honour will by letters of encouragement and by your
services remember me^that this Business may with the Blessing of God
be put in execution tlmF whom I wish you all Honour and Riches, dated
the 11th Beby of Sany 1175.
CXVII.
Public Department Diary No. 38 of 1762.
Bombay Castle, 5th May 1762.
Imported our Hon'ble Masters' Ship Eoyal Captain, Captain Nathaniel Gombroon, letter
Tanner from Gambroon, by which received two Letters from the Agent and fr< ' m '
2578 P. D.
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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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- 'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:158v, 160r:190v, 191v:201v, 203r:236v, 238r:270v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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