File 522/1922 Pt 7 'Bahrain: Persian claim to sovereignty; Persian Treaty negotations 1929-1930' [‎34r] (72/1126)

have been better for the commerce of the islands and their general
security if the British Government had definitely occupied Bahrein,
hut had H.M.Government adopted this policy goodness knows what an
outcry would have been raised against us throughout the world com
plaining of our greed and insatiable appetite for colonising*
The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of r, The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. * 1 states on page 218 that the
Sheikh of Bahrein, who had signed & treaty with the Oman Sheikhs,
concluded in 1278 (1861 A*D* ) another Important treaty with Great
Britain, according to which he undertook to abstain from the slave-
tradm and other illegal acts on the sea, on condition that H.M.
Government should protect him#
In the year 1276, when the Khor-moji "Fars-nameh” was written,
the Bahrein islands were parts of a Persian province and the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
of the "Fars-nameh * 1 cited them as a part of Pars Province* Pour
official notes have been written to the Persian court during that
same year by the Sheikhs of Bahrein in which they have professed
their obedience to the Persian ruler* They are as follows f~
Letter dated Shaban 10th 1276 from Muhammed ben Abdullah ben Ahmad
Al-l-Khalifeh addressed to the Derya-Begi, the Governor of Bushire;
Letter from Muhammed ben Khalifeh ben Salman Al-i-Khalifeh dated
17th Shaban 1276 addressed to Mirsa Saeed Khan Mutamen-ul-Mulk, the
Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs;
Letter dated 17th Shaban 1276 from Muhammed ben Khalifeh ben Salman
Al-i-Khalifeh addressed to Sultan Murad Mirsa Hessam-us-Saltaneh,
the Governor of Fare ;
Letter dated 20th Ramazan 1276 from Muhammed ben Khalifeh and Ali
ben Khalifeh ben Salman Al-i-Khalifeh addressed to Kasr-ud-Din Shah*
On the 8 th Shaban 1278 a letter received by Mirza Mehdl the
Persian Kargazar in Bushire from Ali ben Ibfcahim-ez-Usnji, the head
servant (Pish—kar) of Sheikh Muhamiaed ben Khalifeh, in whicn he
professed allegiance to Persia on behalf of the Sheikh of Bahrein*