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‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’ [132v] (104/114)
The record is made up of 1 file (55 folios). It was created in 1872. 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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Slave Trade
It is obvious, said 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.
, that—
"the above-quoted resolution of His Excellency the Governor General in Council is meant
for Zanzibar as well as for Muscat; and His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar like the
ruler of Muscat, has never doubted the right of the British Government to exercise iurisdic
tion over the natives of Kutch or any other protected State in India; but since the abandon-
ment by my predecessors of the right of protecting such of these natives of India who did
not seek our protection, His Highness assumes that we have no further ri<rht to iurisdiction
over them. B J
n 1 ^ T ? rr 1 iva ! ZaTlz ^ :)ar Mr- Churchill had ascertained that, although
Colond Righy had succeeded in emancipating all the slaves in the possession
of the natives oi India established in the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar
upwards of one thousand two hundred slaves were still held in bondage bv
natives of that country, and that they enjoyed this privilege because ^thev
were under the protection of His Highness Syed Majid. Mr. Churchill there
fore, represented to the Sultan that he was under a necessUy of puttinra
.top to the holding of slaves by all natives of India in "Zanzibar, and
e further claimed jurisdiction over all natives of independent states in India,
n though t ey had forieited British proteotion and placed themselves
under that of the Sultan. The Sultan pleaded that Colonel Plavfair had
h^.r^r/p't "l H • 10 - Se natives of independent States in India who
had not entered their names in the Consular Register should be considered
as Arabs. 1 bey were thus, he said, under Arab law, and bad, therefore a rk'ht
menf Tblli f th « SuIta ^ request the matter'was rcterreTto Govern!
ment. 1 he Bombay Government observed—
' The British Government have practically said to certain Kutchees f mn « f
SI Csi-iSS=
have'no^^ht to^iuterfere!'^ 4 Hon ' ble Govei ' I1 or in Gouncil that the British Government
aj dr ^ ^::r: ]1 ieT c wh 1 cht Xz* s ?:'iX
tax-paver, and not the Indian will W p t ? compensation, which the British
that the Rao will not/ 1 ' pay, 38 11 may be almo8t certainl y taken for granted
remarked—^ Indla ' to wljom case was referred for decision,
turnso^n the^olLwing'i^ues 6 ^ 0 ' Genera ' Ceuneil that the deeisioo of the question raised
" 11—0° Sab - iects in I" 68 '' 011 merely own and hold slaves ?
tantamount to slave-dealing ? ' ^ ma ^ e con ^ racts regarding, slaves involving transactions
" HI.. Does their ease resemble t, lat of Messrs H. A. Fraser and Company at Zanzibar *
sat
qoestion^ilfame a^to^vhTther 0 thm franfT *'"" k " 1 t0 anionnt 10 slave-dealing, then a
transactions of Messrs. Fraser and Company i'zanzLr ^'^d'^fes"™.TiTr ^
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The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British Consul at Zanzibar, and Sir William Marcus Coghlan, relate to: the death in 1856 of the Sultan of Muscat Syed Saeed [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id] without a direct heir; the succession struggle between Syed Thoweynee [Thuwaynī bin Sa‘id al-Sa‘id] and Syed Majid [Sa‘id Majid bin Said al-Sa‘id]; British arbitration in the dispute; succession arrangements at Muscat and Zanzibar; the slave trade between Zanzibar and Muscat. The précis is organised into six chapters (labelled I to VI), as follows:
- I – Events preceding the arbitration by the Government of India;
- II – Arbitration of the Government of India;
- III – Proceedings subsequent to the arbitration relating to the question of subsidy;
- IV – Events at Zanzibar from the arbitration to the death of Syed Majid;
- V – Events in Zanzibar from the death of Syed Majid;
- VI – Slave Trade.
The contents page lists four appendices (labelled A to D) that are not included in this copy of the précis.
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- 1 file (55 folios)
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The correspondence contained in the précis is arranged in an approximate chronological order, with those of earliest date (1856) at the front, and those of latest date (1872) at the end. The correspondence is further arranged into six chapters labelled I to VI. Subheadings throughout the précis are numbered from 1 (for the first subheading in chapter I) to 131 (for the last subheading in chapter VI). A contents page (ff 82-84) lists the chapters, subheadings and subheading numbers. Note that a discrepancy appears between the subheading numbers and the subheading contents in chapter VI.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 81, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additonal foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 6-192; these numbers are also written in pencil but, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence 1-105.
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- ‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
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- 81r:137v
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