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Departure of A1 bin ‘Ali Shaikh ‘Isa b. Tarif from Abu Dhabi,
December 1839: S. Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to
Government of Bombay, 27 December 1839
[IOR: L/P&S/5/381, Enclosure to Letter No. 5 of 31 January 1840]
1.13 Civil war in Bahrain, 1840-1847; opposition to Shaikh
‘Abdullah b. Ahmad; deposition, April 1843; exile and
attempts to overthrow Shaikh Muhammad b. Khalifah,
1843-1847 499
The expulsion of ‘Abdullah b. Ahmad from the Shaikhship,
1840-1843; continuance of the civil war, 1843-1849 [from J. G.
Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf Oman and Central Arabia,
volume I, Calcutta, 1915, pf). 866-870, 872-879]
Reports from Bahrain, November 1842-Novcmbcr 1847:
Lieutenant-Colonel H. Robertson, Officiating Resident, to the
Government of Bombay, 22 November 1842, enclosing letter
from A. B. Kcmball, Assistant Resident, 4 November 1842;
Minute by Governor in Council [IOR: P/390/32, Consultation of
31 January 1843]
Robertson to the Government of Bombay, 27 January 1843,
enclosing letters from Haji Jasim, Agent at Bahrain, 2-21
January 1843 [IOR: P/390/33, Consultation of 8 March 1843]
Robertson to the Government of Bombay, 27 March 1843,
enclosing letter from Haji Jasim, 18 March 1843; Shaikh
‘Abdullah b. Ahmad to Robertson, 20 March 1843; Haji Jasim
to Robertson, 23 & 30 March 1843; Kemball to the
Government of Bombay, 17 April 1843, enclosing Haji Jasim to
Robertson, 10 April 1843; Minute by the Governor in Council,
5 May 1843 [IOR: P/390/37, Consultation of 18 May 1843]
Kemball to the Government of Bombay, 22 April 1843; Minute by
the Governor in Council, 30 June 1843; Haji Jasim to Resident,
22 April 1843; Kemball to the Government of Bombay, 29 April
1843, enclosing letter from Shaikh ‘Abdullah b. Ahmad,
16 April 1843 [IOR: P/390/42, Consultation of 26 July 1843]
Kcmball to the Government of Bombay, 2 September 1843,
enclosing letters from Haji Jasim, 21 August 1843 and Shaikh
Jabir b. ‘Abdullah of Kuwait, 26 August 1843; Kemball to
Jabir b. ‘Abdullah, 31 August 1843 [IOR: P/390/46, Consultation
of 4 October 1843]
S. Hennell, Resident in the Gulf, to the Government of
Bombay, 20 October 1846, enclosing letters from the Agent at
Bahrain, 27 September & 11 October 1846 [IOR: R/15/1/108]
Death of ‘Isa b. Tarif: Hennell to the Government of Bombay,
1 December 1847, enclosing letters from Haji Jasim, Agent at
Bahrain, 9, 19 & 21 November 1847 [IOR: R/l5/1/111]
1.14 British influence: slave trade agreements, 1847-1856;
Muhammad b. Khalifah’s request for British protection,
583
Translation of an Agreement entered into by Shaikh
Muhammad b. Khalifah, Chief of Bahrain, for the abolition of
the African slave trade, 8 May 1847 [IOR: R/15/1/740]
Translation of a further engagement entered into by Shaikh
Muhammad b. Khalifah with the British Government for the
more effectual suppression of the slave trade, 10 May 1856
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