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'Slave-dealing and Slave-holding by Kutchees in Zanzibar' [131v] (51/63)
The record is made up of 1 file (28 folios). It was created in 1870. 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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48
No. 11.
No. 144 of 1869.
Political Department.
C. Gonne , Esq., Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to the Secretary to
Government of India, Foreign Department.
Sir,
As connected with my letter of this date. No. 143, I am directed to
forward, for submission to His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor General in
Council, the enclosed copy of a Letter, with accompaniments, from the Political
Agent, Zanzibar, No. 17/85, dated the 25th February last, reporting his having
detained Her Majesty's ship "Nymphe," in consequence of apprehensions
expressed by His Highness the Sultan, occasioned by the instructions of the
Government of India, relative to the Kutchees under His Highness's protection
possessing slaves.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) C. Gonne,
Bombay Castle, Secretary to Government.
17th April 1869.
Political Letter from Bombay, dated 31st August (No. 48) 1869.
To Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India.
My Lord,
We have the honour to forward copy of a letter from his Highness Syud Majid,
Sultan of Zanzibar, dated the 29th of last April, informing us of the deputation of
two Noblemen of his Court to confer with us agreeably to instructions communi
cated to them by his Highness.
2. The Envoys had an interview with our President on the 22d June last.
3. A Letter was subsequently received from the Envoys, dated 23d June,
copies of which and of the answer thereto, we append for the information of Her
Majesty s Government.
We have, &c.,
(Signed) W. R. S. V. Fitz Gerald,
S. Mansfield,
H. P. St. G. Tucker.
Extract Bombay Political Consultation, 31st July 1869.
No. 405 of 1869.
Oriental Translator's Department,
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(Signed) F. R. S. Wyllie,
For Oriental Translator to Government.
Noblemen.
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This file contains a selection of correspondence, extracts and reports regarding the involvement of British subjects from the Princely State of Kutch [Cutch] in the slave trade in Zanzibar and attempts by the British Government to end this involvement.
Much of the correspondence is from Britain's 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. in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Churchill and Britain's 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. in Kutch, Major Alexander Young Shortt. This includes translated copies of correspondence between Churchill and the Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyd [Sayyid] Majid bin Said.
On folio 128, the file contains a proclamation issued by the ruler of Kutch, the Maharaja Dhiraj Mirza Maha Rao Shree Praguruljee, that warns his subjects in Kutch of the penalties of being engaged in the slave trade in general and specifically in Zanzibar.
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- 1 file (28 folios)
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The file is arranged in rough chronological order.
A contents page is included on folio 108.
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.
Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 107, and terminates at f 134, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Slave-dealing and Slave-holding by Kutchees in Zanzibar'
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- front, 107r:108v, 111r:135v, i-r:i-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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