'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih' [46v] (92/252)
The record is made up of 1 file (126 folios). It was created in 12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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understand, at the present time living in the interior
within the limits of the jurisdiction of the Mutasserrif
of A1 Hassa. At certain seasons however of the year
1 understand that they come down to the Coast ana in
habit some place on the bay markea t Dahat S a lwa / on the
chart, South of Bahrein, Whether this place is con-
si derea to be within the limits of Katr J ao not know.
It might be possible for the Chief of Bahrein^])
subsidizina some other tribe living in the vicinity t to
obtaiiijsome sort of rearess from the Behaih. It is
however that such a measure would be unsatis
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, as the Chief might have to give the tr l be^
who woula then have taken his quarrel upon themselves f
a place of haven in Bahrein / and this might prove a
constant drain on his resources. It seems difficult
therefore for the Chief to undertake his own measures
for obtaining redress.
If however the Behaih tribe come at certain seasons of
J r '
the year within the limits of Katr, it might be possible
for the Chief of Katr to arr
Whether the Chief of Katr woula be willing to do so
and for what consideration,
point
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain and Bushire; Captain Oldham on board HMS Lapwing ; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and the kaymakam (Ottoman governor) of al-Qaṭīf.
These correspondence concern the murder in 1900 of Salmān bin Di‘aj Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá, together with some twenty-five others, at the hands of the ‘Behaih’ section of the Āl Murrah tribe while on their annual hawking trip on the mainland of Eastern Arabia at al-Darayah, some thirty to forty miles south of al-Qaṭīf.
The file contains details of the murder itself (folio 7), as well as subsequent dealings with Turkish officials and the Āl Thānī family in order to avert revenge attacks (‘blood feud’) by the Āl Khalīfah family (for example, folio 45) between 1902 and 1906. There are incidental references to the outbreak of plague in the Gulf in 1903 (folio 76).
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- 1 file (126 folios)
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This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Foliation: This file has two foliation numbers in the top right hand of each folio. The primary number is enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page. The secondary number is not enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page of text.
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- 'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih'
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 6v:14v, 19r:22v, 28v:29v, 30v:95v, 96v:125v, back-i, back
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