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APPENDIX 9.
memorandum showing Total Merchandize exported from Bombay by Native Craft under French
Flag to Oman Ports of South-East Arabia during the years 1900 to 1904.
Year.
Mcrbat.
Maseira.
Soar.
Other Ports.
Rice Bags.
Sundries.
Rice Bags.
Sundries.
Rice Bags.
Sundries.
Rice Bag«.
Sundries.
1900
2,965
1,767
4,793
Ill
3,444
2,920
240
66
1901
1,033
434
2,991
15
2,704
763
430
105
1902
1,088
2,418
7,556
249
3,913
2.467
300
6
1903
674
2,075
4,767
420
1,227
1,334
940
2,854
1904
650*
37
3,269
1,862
735
205
3,384
3,659*
To'al ..
6,410
6,731
23,376
2,657
12,023
7,689
3,294
6,690
* Incomplete; mauifests of six Bughlas mislaid by Muscat Justo:ns Office.
(Signed) P. Z. COX, Major,
Officiating Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Muscat, March 21, 1905.
APPENDIX 10.
(No. 1.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Miles to British Consul-General, Bushire.
IN acknowledging the receipt of your letter requesting answers to certain questions regarding
the Indian Khojas and Muscat, I have the honour to submit herewith the information called for
accordingly.
Memorandum of Queries and Replies.
1. Do the Khojas of Muscat preserve a
peculiar religion and peculiar social habits of
their own, or do they combine with other com
munities ?
2. Are there any Khojas who are beyond
question subjects of the Sulian ?
3. If there are, do the Indian Khojas inter
mix with them, or do the Indian Khojas form a
separate community preserving an immiscible
character ?
4. Do the members of the Khoja community
at Muscat come from India only, or from other
parts of the world as well ?
The Khojas at Muscat do not combine with
other communities. They dwell iu a separate
walled quarter at Mutrah, called the Khoja
Fort, and intermarry only among themselves.
They comprise two parties, viz., the followers
of Agha Khan, who preserve their peculiar
religion and social customs, and those who have
recently adopted the Mahommedan religion.
The latter are in the majority, but even those
notwithstanding preserve some of their old
social habits.
Yes. Such as those whose ancestors emi
grated from Sind prior to British conquest,
and such as have declared themselves Arab
subjects.
They are one and the same community, and
intermix.
The Khojas are Indians, and come from the
Provinces of Sind and Cutch.