Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pt 2

Content

This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussorah [Basra] between 25 September 1726 and 25 August 1731. It includes material relating to:

• A proposal that English vessels stop visiting the port of Bussorah, and that a vessel should instead cruise between Ormus [Hormuz] and Cape Mussledoon [Cape Musandam], to prevent any ‘Moors Vessells’ from entering the Gulf
• A petition from a Persian woman, captured by the crew of the Victoria , to the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bussorah
• The Pasha’s demand either for the release of the Persian woman or for the head of Captain Forbes
• The remonstrance of William Phipps, President of Bombay, with Abde Rahman Basha ['Abd al-Rahman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ] of Bussorah
• The expulsion of the Dutch East India Company by the Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Bengal, Shuja’ al-Din Muhammad Khan Nasiri, from Hughly [Hooghly], following the capture of a vessel belonging to the Ostend Company
• The wresting of Mombase [Mombasa] from the Portuguese by the ‘Muscat Arabs’, and of Portuguese territories between Basseen [Vasai] and Damaun [Daman] by the Sou Rajah [Shahu Rajah]
• The victory of Shaw Thomas’s [Shah Tahmasb II's] General against Hoshroff [Sultan Ashraf Ghilza'i, also referred to as Ashroph and Ashroff Sultan] and the fall of Spahaun [Isfahan]
• The victory of Thomas Cooly Caun [Tahmasb Quli Khan] over the Ophgoons [Afghans] at Shyrash [Shiraz]
• The victories of the Persians against the Ottomans at Hamadan and Kirmanshaw [Kermanshah]
• The killing of Ashroff Sultan by Hossein Caun [Husayn Khan Ghilza’i] at Candahar [Qandahar]
• The papers relating to the Chief Agent, Isaac Houssaye’s management of Company’s affairs at Bussorah
• An engagement between the Maratha Navy and the Bengal Galley , the Bombay , and the Victoria
• The confirmation of all the ‘Rogoms’ [i.e. trading privileges] received from the kings of Persia
• The wresting of Kirmanshaw by the Ottomans from the Persians, and the Turkish march on Hamadan
• A Rogom from Shaw Tomasb [Shah Tahmasb II] to the Company for the collection of customs at Gombroon [Bandar ‘Abbas].

Extent and format

1 volume (122 folios)

It is part of

Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pts 1-2

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Ref: IOR/G/29/18

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter book

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/G/29/18/2

History of this record

Date(s)

25 Dec 1726-25 Aug 1731 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

Nādir Afshār

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