The Bombay selections include reports from residents such as Robert Taylor, Francis Warden, Samuel Hennell, Arnold Burrows Kemball, and Herbert Desborough. These individuals were concerned with preparing concise and focused reports on the region and its political and geographical conditions. The selections contained historical information about Muscat and Oman, their emergence as a political entity in the early seventeenth century, the tribes that inhabited them, the rise of the Al Bu Sa‘id dynasty, as well as details about its geographical regions, ports, and surrounding areas.
They also included a chronological timeline of related events prepared in 1844 by Lieutenant Kemball, assistant resident in the Gulf, and a historical overview of the establishment and development of the Muscat government from 1695 to the end of 1853. Furthermore, Francis Warden’s geographical report addressed important Gulf ports at the time, such as Rams (Ras al-Khaimah), Umm al-Quwain, Ajman, Sharjah, Buheir, Khawr Hasan, Bani Yas, Al-Huwaylah, Al-Dhakhira, Al-Zubarah, Al-‘Uqair, and Al-Qatif, among others.
Other reports related to the British campaign against Ras al-Khaimah in the early nineteenth century, which concluded with the signing of the General Maritime Peace Treaty of 1820. Another report provided a geographical description of the Gulf islands—Bahrain, Hormuz, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Kharg, Lavan, Hengam, Greater and Lesser Tunbs, Basidu, Lengeh, Shinas, Bustaneh, Moghu, and Larak.






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