Author
slaves from Qatar
Publication Date
18 Dec 1943-14 Sep 1946 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
66
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1829
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x000234
Library Location
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.
Date
18 Dec 1943-14 Sep 1946 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file contains correspondence related to twenty manumission applications made by slaves from Qatar, taken down by staff at the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in Bahrain. Many of the cases in the file feature only the slave's manumission statement, with little else in the way of correspondence.
In the first case in the file, there is a British manumission certificate (folio 6), and an original, handwritten manumission certificate, given to a slave by his master (folio 5). Case 3 involves the manumission application of a female slave from Qatar, found embracing the flagstaff at the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in Bahrain. The woman also requests the retrieval of her children, who are in the custody of the Shaikh of Qatar. There are angry exchanges in letters between the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Bahrain (Captain Tom Hickinbotham) and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, over access to the children (folios 22-23, 25-26), with Shaikh ‘Abdullāh stating that he resents 'interference in matters about which agreements were concluded [in 1916] between me and H.E. Sir Percy Cox'. Office notes suggest that the mother lied about the ages of her children, resulting in the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
having 'got into trouble with the Shaikh of Qatar' (folio 14).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The items in the file have been arranged in rough chronological order, with the earliest correspondence at the front of the file, to the latest at the rear. There is an index of cases, numbered 1 to 19, at the front of the file (folio 2). Each case has its own cover sheet, and there are office notes included either before or after each set of case correspondence.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Vernacular Office Files: 3A
Köken
Vernacular File normally kept in the English Office.
