Author
the Khān Bahādur bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān
Publication Date
1907-1908, 1921 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
154
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/1/755
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x0002dc
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
1907-1908, 1921 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
This file includes a partially bound ledger book (ff. 2-138) containing drafts of letters sent by the Khān Bahādur bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān,
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
at Sharjah, in 1907 and 1908. The ledger book includes drafts of letters mainly sent to the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, but also other members of the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
staff, as well as the Political Agents at Muscat and Bahrain and
native agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
at Lingah and Bandar ‘Abbās. These draft letters include enclosures which are generally copies of letters to or from
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
rulers and other notable personalities, including merchants and British protected subjects, as well as copies of reports, translated correspondence and other documents. The correspondence is generally concerned with commercial and consular matters, as well as relations between British and the rulers of the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
shaikhs, including Zāyid bin Khalīfah Āl Nahyān, ruler of Abu Dhabi; Buṭṭī bin Suhayl Āl Maktūm, ruler of Dubai; Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl
Qāsimī
One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima.
, ruler of Sharjah; Rāshid bin Aḥmad Āl Mu‘allā, ruler of Umm al-Qaywayn; ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Ḥumayd Āl Nu‘aymī, ruler of Ajman; Khālid bin Aḥmad Āl
Qāsimī
One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima.
, ruler of Dibba; and Sa‘id bin Ḥamad Āl
Qāsimī
One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima.
, ruler of Kalba. Subjects covered include claims and petitions of merchants and British Indian subjects (
banyans
), trade, slavery cases, pearling issues maintaining the maritime peace, arms importation and smuggling, and intelligence gathering, as well as administrative matters concerning the Sharjah
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
. Folio 100v includes a small labelled sketched diagram of a
baqqālah
boat. Also included in the file are additional loose letters in Arabic (ff. 140-148) from the years 1920 and 1921 from the Political
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to the ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf, and a telegraph in Arabic and transliterated Arabic in Latin script (f. 139).
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