‘Persian Gulf. Claims of Hajee Mahamed Ally Suffer against the Chief of Kishn.’

Content

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the seventeenth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; Sheik Abdool Rahman bin Suggur, Governor of Kishm [Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Ṣaqr al-Mu‘īnī, Governor of Qeshm]; and Sheikh Syf ben Nubhan, Governor of Bunder Abbass [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Ma‘walī, Governor of Bandar-e ʻAbbas].

The item concerns the claim of Hajee Mahomed Ally Suffur [Ḥājjī Muḥammad ‘Alī Ẓafar], a merchant of Bombay, regarding a sum of money paid in deposit by Sheik Abdool Rahman bin Suggur as compensation for certain bags of sugar said to have been taken from the wreck of a ship on Kishm in 1838. It had previously been agreed that the sum would be transferred to Hajee Mahomed Ally Suffur only once he had sworn an oath that the sugar had indeed been saved from the wreck. This has not yet been done, and Sheik Abdool Rahman bin Suggur has requested the return of the money he paid. Hennell investigates and arranges a compromise in order to settle the case.

The item contains a table of contents (f 414), and the title page (f 413) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 17’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 5 of No. 53’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.

Extent and format

1 item (11 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 413 and terminates at f 423, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/F/4/2174/105562

History of this record

Date(s)

Oct 1844-Feb 1846 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Compensation

People & organisations

Shaikh of QeshmPolitical ResidentGovernor of Bandar AbbasGovernment of Bombay

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