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Notes to Chapter Three

company had obtained the concession. Britain protested the validity of
this concession; see e.g. the confidential letter of 4 Aug. 1912 from the
Political Resident in Bushire, Sir Percy Cox. to the Secretary to the
Governor of India in the Foreign Department, IOR R/15/1/244. See also
Plass, J.B., England z\vischen Oeutschland und Iiusslancl, 1899-1907.
Hamburg. 1966, pp. 4!0ff.
10 They jointly owned over 15.000 date trees and about 130 camels, 175
donkeys, 150 cattle and about 800 goats and 20 horses; See Lorimer,
Geogr., p. 1008.
11 Khojah is the name applied to Muslims whose ancestors were Hindus
from Sind or Kach, and who were converted in the 15th century to the
Isma'ili sect of ShT'ah Islam. Wherever they were settled in the Trucial
Stales or Oman they had their families with them. See also pages 133f.
12 The town was permanently guarded by armed retainers and in an
emergency there were several hundred rifles in private possession of the
local inhabitants.
13 See Lorimer, Histor., p. 1547. Some members of the family, such as Nasir
bin Sultan, who was the vvali for a brief period early in this century and
who had lived in Ra’s al Khaimah for most of his life, had acquired
private properly either by inheritance or through business enterprises
in pearling. Nevertheless, Humaid bin 'Abdullah gave an allowance to
his uncle Nasir as to all the other members of the family, and according
to a note written by the Residency Agent on 16th January 1927 to the
Political Resident in Bushire this practice of maintaining both male and
female members of the family continued by all wall's and Rulers of Ra’s
al Khaimah; see IOR R/15/1/244.
14 Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1761.
15 See IOR R/15/1/244. The Residency Agent slated in a letter of the 26th
September 1900 to the Resident in Bushire that Salim bin Sultan
obtained M.T. Dollars 400 per year from the Shaikh of Sharjah as
compensation and M.T. Dollars 250 from the red oxide mines of
AbuMusa, yet his income was said to be inadequate for him and his
family.
16 Other Shihuh communities in the Qasimi area were: Ghalilah 50 houses
one mile south of the Sha’am, Khaur Khuwair 30 houses, half way
between there and Rams, and al Hail in Sir. In all there were about 2,000
souls. Some of the settled tribes in the Qasimi ShamailTyah district on
the east coast were closely connected with the Shihuh. The sections of
the Shihuh who lived under the Sultan of Muscat’s authority were of
course very much in evidence in the Qasimi areas, and clashes with the
local population were so frequent that the Political Resident in Bushire
al the time, Lt. Col. Prideaux, seriously worked at a plan in November
suggesting to the Trucial Shaikhs and the Sultan of Muscat and
1926
exchange of territory. It would have meant removing all the
Oman an
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