Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, 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, also spelt Bussora in the volume] between 9 October 1785 and 4 October 1787, and covers the following:

• The correspondence of the Agent at Bussorah, Samuel Manesty, with the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. and Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. of the Company
• The movements and possible instructions of the French vessels visiting Muscat and the Persian Gulph [Gulf], and the potential for the French to intercept British communications through the Gulf in the event of a war
• The departure of Captain Matthew Jenour of HM 102nd Regiment from Bussorah for Aleppo
• The conclusion of a peace, by Mahomed Beg, between Bagdat [Baghdad] and the Chaub [Banū Ka’b]
• The cultivation of friendly relations between Manesty and Shaik Gathban [Shaikh Ghaḍbān al-Ka’bī]
• The correspondence between Manesty and Soliman Bacha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā] of Bagdat
• The appointment of William Gamul Farmer as Resident at Bussorah and his arrival on the King George , and the relinquishment of his appointment by Farmer and replacement with John Griffith
• The struggle between Jaffier Khan [Ja’far Khān Zand] and Mahomed Khan [Āqā Muḥammad Khān Qājār], Governor of Mazanderan [Mazandaran], over possession of Ispahan [Isfahan], and the apparent reconciliation between the Zand claimants Sciat Morat Khan [Ṣayd Murād Khān] and Jaffier Khan
• The arrival of four ships belonging to Tippoo Sultan [Tipū Sulṭān] at Muscat en route to Judda [Jeddah]
• A letter from the Grand Vizier Jussef Pashaw [Koca Yūsif Pāshā] to Suleiman Pashaw [Sulaymān Pāshā]
• The hostilities between the Mahrattas [Marathas] and Nizam Ally [Nizām ‘Alī] against Tippoo Sultan
• The arrival of four of Tippoo Sultan’s ‘vakeels’ [vakīls, representatives] in Bussorah, with the apparent intention to proceed to Bagdat and Constantinople [Istanbul], and thereafter to France and England
• The resignation of his post by Griffith, and handover of charge for the factory An East India Company trading post. to Manesty
• The revolt of Hodjee Soliman Bey [Ḥādjī Sulaymān Bey al-Shāwī], Shaik of the Bey [‘Ubayd] Arabs
• The departure of an army of Montifick [Muntafiq], Benuchalid [Banū Khālid] and Anisa [‘Anizzah] Arabs on an expedition against Abdulul Whahab [‘Abd al-Wahhāb], Shaik of the Whahabee [Wahhabī]
• The seizure, by Shaik Swiney [Shaikh Thuwaynī bin ‘Abdullāh al-Sa‘dūn], of the town of Bussorah
• The entertainment by Shaik Swiney of Hodjee Soliman Bey, and his son Daud Bey [Dāwūd Bey]
• The reception of Hodjee Soliman Bey’s brother, Mahomed Bey [Muḥammad Bey al-Shāwī] at Bagdat
• The intelligence from Persia [Iran] on the return of Jaffier Caun to Schyras [Shiraz] on 18 April [1785]
• The departure of Charles Watkins to replace Edward Galley as the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr]
• The defection of Shaik Ahmood son of Tamar [Shaikh Ḥammūd bin Thāmir al-Sa‘dūn] to the Bacha of Bagdat
• The Bacha’s appointment of Ahmood as Shaik, and his preparations for war against Swiney
• The requests of Soliman Bacha for assistance from the Company and the Imaum [Imam of Muscat]
• The directions of Soliman Bacha to the Shaik of the Chaub to engage and destroy the fleet of Bussorah
• The correspondence between Manesty and Captain Peter Scott of the Snow ‘Begler Beg’ [ Beglerbeg ]
• The confirmation of Soliman Bacha’s appointment as Ottoman Vizier of Bagdat and Bussorah
• The victory of Soliman Bacha against Shaik Swiney, and Swiney and Hodjee Soliman Bey’s subsequent escape.

Extent and format

1 volume (203 folios)

It is part of

Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, Pts 1-4

1649 images

Ref: IOR/G/29/22

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

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/29/22/2

History of this record

Date(s)

9 Oct 1785-4 Oct 1787 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Maratha-Mysore War (1785-1787)

People & organisations

Maratha EmpireJa‘far Khān ZandMuḥammad bin ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Tamīmīal-‘Ubayd (Tribe)

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