Author
Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent) | Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent) | District Magistrate, Bahrain (correspondent) | Persian Gulf Political Residency, First Assistant Resident (correspondent)
Publication Date
1907/1929
Publication Place
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Qatar National Library
Subject
Slavery | Slave emancipation | Colonial administration | more | less
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
148
Physical Dimensions
1 volume (148 folios)
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000020_ar | 81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000020_en | IOR/R/15/5/85
Record ID
81055%2Fvdc_100000000831.0x000020_dlme
Library Location
British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Date
1907/1929
Notes
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, printed reports, memoranda, and notes, relating to the manumission procedure in Kuwait. Correspondence also discusses the procedure to follow if Kuwait slaves take refuge at other British agencies in the Gulf. Further discussion surrounds the issue of consistency of practice and whether guidelines should be issued by the Government of India.Included in the volume is a copy (ff 34-44) of typed notes 'Part 1:Notes for Guidance on Persian shore of Persian Gulf; Part 2: Notes for guidance on Arabian shore of Persian Gulf' with sections on Kuwait, Bahrain, Maskat and Trucial Coast.Also included (folio 79) is a copy of the proclamation issued by the Government of India in 1873 'notifiying the penalites which British subjects will incur by illegally possessing and in any way trafficking in slaves, or aiding others in such traffic.'The principal correspondents in the volume include the Political Agent, Kuwait (Stuart George Knox; James Carmichael More); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Francis Beville Prideaux); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department (Sir Louis William Dane); the Assistant Resident, Bushire (Richard Lockington Birdwood); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Mubarak bin Sabah al-Sabah; Shaikh Salim al-Mubarak al-Sabah). | 1 volume (148 folios) | The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. | Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 148; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-147, and ff 3-133; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. | more | less
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British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers
