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'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION' [139r] (281/396)
The record is made up of 1 file (195 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931. 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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Statement of slave Wilaid bin Ahmad bin Salih aged
about 45 years,recorded in the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,Bahrein
•••••«•••••♦•••••••••••••••••
I was born in Suwhail.I was kidnapped in ay early
days by some slave
broker
Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
and brought to Qatar•He sold
me there to one Ahmad bin Salih whom I had been serving
for the last 35 years#
He was getting cruel towards me day by day and I acoc
was too badly treated nowadays# I left my wife ana
my childeren in the house of my master and managed to
escape alone from the Mahmal which brought me and other
divers of my master to Bahrein#
I have come now to the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
for the manumission
certificate that I may live a free man#
Signed before me this ^o^-day of June 1931
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.
,Bahrein.
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The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his inheritance, and correspondence on the rescue of a young Persian slave by Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Emir of Qatar (folios 37-43).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (195 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation is in pencil on the top right corner, starting and ending on the covers. The numbering starts with 1, 1a, and then carries on until 196, which is the last number given on the back cover.
- Written in
- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/2/1367
- Title
- 'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 3r:32v, 34r:40v, 43r:79v, 81r:86v, 89r:115v, 115av, 116r:116v, 117v:119v, 121r:155v, 157r:179v, 181r:195v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence